Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at [email protected].
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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Life Madoff’s Purported Mistress: The Lowest of the Low
Just when you think the Bernie Madoff story can’t get more disgusting, new revelations from a woman claiming to be his former mistress are dragging it further into the sleaze zone. Sheryl Weinstein – who was then and now married and was at the time Hadassah’s CFO, and had invested millions of the organization’s money…
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Life Women: ‘The Cause of Our Time’
The New York Times had a fantastic package of stories in its magazine on Sunday focusing on women in the developing world and the impact of their poverty, poor health care and disenfranchisement on overall political and economic progress. Titled Why Women’s Rights Are the Cause of Our Time, it is an excerpt from a…
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Life The Haredi Women Who Are Relegated to One Side of the Street
Every so often — recently increasingly often, it seems — I come across a story that is something like this one, which describes the growing extremism in the form of misogyny of the far-right edge of Orthodox Judaism. The Ynet article states: A group of ultra-Orthodox men took to the streets of the haredi neighborhoods…
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Culture ‘The Perfect Storm’ for Day Schools
As Jewish day schools prepare to open their doors for the 2009–10 school year, there is only one thing beyond the well-being of their students that is on the minds of those in charge: the economy. The recession “has been devastating,” said Marc Kramer, executive director of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, which…
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Life But Can You Breast-Feed a Baby Doll in Shul?
Just in time for those who like to stock up early on weird and controversial Hanukkah presents for their young relatives comes news of a baby doll which simulates breast feeding. On so many levels this doll strikes me as disturbing in the extreme. The name alone astounds: Bebe Gloton, which translated from its native…
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Life UJC’s Kathy Manning on Gender Imbalance in the Federation System
Kathy Manning is the first woman to become chair of the board of trustees of United Jewish Communities, the central organization of the 157 Jewish federations around North America, which collectively raised $3 billion last year. Manning, an immigration attorney from Greensboro, N.C., has been involved as a lay leader with UJC since it was…
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News UJC’s New Leaders Saying Little About Their Plans
Expectations are running high for Jerry Silverman, incoming president and CEO of United Jewish Communities, and for the troubled organization’s incoming board chair, Kathy Manning. Conceived as the umbrella group, national advocate and central address of American Jewry’s sprawling system of local charity funding bodies known as federations, UJC has cost those strapped community-based groups…
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News Dina Wein Reis’s Downfall
In this picture, Dina Wein Reis looks every bit the modern frum woman — modest but modern, and very cute with her hair tucked up into that newsboy cap. But she is far from a woman of valor, the traditional view of the ideal Jewish woman as one who is capable, industrious and righteous. Wein…
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