Devorah Blachor
By Devorah Blachor
-
Opinion When Did The Orthodox Community Become So Anti-Immigrant?
In March, a friend of mine posted an article that appeared in these pages about Orthodox Jewish families who hired drivers to take their undocumented workers to Florida for Passover. The families subjected the workers to long and arduous journeys, risking their deportation so that they could have help for the holiday. The friend who…
-
Life Why I Stopped Waiting For My Bashert And Started Looking For A Life Partner Instead
“When we meet him, how will we know he’s our bashert?” This was one of the questions I asked my teachers during my early teenage years. As an adolescent in a yeshiva high school, there was no topic more fascinating than bashert – the Jewish concept of soulmate. Though we students were from modern Orthodox…
-
Life The Day Miss Universe Saved Feminism
After the DNC convention in late July, Full Frontal’s Samantha Bee delivered one of her greatest rants to date. She reminded viewers of Hillary Clinton’s many credentials and endorsements, including the ones from Presidents, Republicans and “half the fucking Pentagon”. She concluded with an eerily spot-on premonition: “That is how good you have to be…
-
Life Actually, Hillary Clinton Does Look ‘Presidential’ — and So Does Miss Piggy
What is the presidential Look? More importantly, does Hillary Clinton have it? Earlier this month, Donald Trump said she didn’t. With the exception of diehard Trump fans, everyone else understood this to be code for Clinton’s having two X chromosomes. And of course, Trump was right. 44 presidents have looked nothing like this woman. In…
-
Life Stop Worshipping Youth — The Presidency Requires More Important Qualities
Did Hillary Clinton faint or stumble after leaving a 9/11 ceremony in New York? Is she “physically unfit” to be president, as some conservatives have been claiming for months? And does Sunday’s health episode – which quickly became a major media story – even matter? If Clinton is seriously ill, then of course it matters….
-
Life This Is What’s Really Behind Hatred for Hillary Clinton
In 1996, historian Henry Louis Gates wrote an article for The New Yorker called “Hating Hillary,” in which he parsed the antipathy towards then First Lady Hillary Clinton. Gates didn’t produce one single cause but rather offered various explanations, ranging from the Clintons’ outsider cluelessness when they arrived in Washington to the failure of the…
-
Life Why Elizabeth Warren on the Ticket Would Be a Feminist Dream Come True
There was something electric about seeing Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren on stage together for their first joint campaign appearance in Cincinnati on Monday June 27. As soon as the women stood together, hugging each other with genuine warmth, praising each other through the roof and raising up their arms POTUS/VPOTUS style, Clinton seemed less…
-
Life How Brexit Threatens My Jewish Son’s European Identity
My 8-year-old son Cai didn’t like the tension around the Brexit talk. He knew an “out” vote meant we’ll probably move from our new home in Luxembourg since my Welsh husband would become ineligible to work in his current job for the EU. As the only British people he knows voted to stay, he can’t…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Scoop: Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values
- 2
Opinion Why I resigned as chairman of Amnesty Israel
- 3
Opinion We’re watching Israel self-destruct — at the hands of its own leaders and citizens
- 4
Culture In ‘Wicked,’ the power of propaganda takes center stage
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish ייִוואָ גיט קורס וועגן דער פֿילפֿאַרביקער געשיכטע פֿון ייִדיש אין אַרגענטינעThe colorful history of Yiddish in Argentina to be taught at YIVO
אַבֿרהם ליכטענבוים וועט אַרומרעדן די השפּעה פֿונעם ייִדישן טעאַטער און פֿונעם טאַנגאָ אויפֿן ייִדיש־רעדנדיקן ייִשובֿ.
-
Theater How Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner became “a match made in meshugas”
-
Opinion On a roots journey from NYC to Poland, I packed my great-grandfather’s tallis
-
Culture While visions of sugar plum fairies dance in their heads, she makes sure all their steps are kosher
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
