Lilit Marcus
By Lilit Marcus
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Life Horribly Boring End to ‘Princesses: Long Island’
The first — and likely only — season of Bravo’s reality show “Princesses: Long Island” aired last night. When the show premiered, several writers here at the Sisterhood, myself included, weighed in on what we thought of the show’s portrayal of 20- and 30-something Jewish women on Long Island. Although plenty of viewers were outraged…
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Life Writer Aimee Bender Veers Into New Territory
L.A.-based writer Aimee Bender is one of the world’s masters of magical realism. Her first two books of short stories, “The Girl with the Flammable Skirt” and “Willful Creatures,” both featured characters — mostly women — dealing with extraordinary circumstances in quite ordinary ways. For example, the girl who treats her potato babies like normal…
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Life Not the Nice Jewish Girl You Were Looking For
Periel Aschenbrand is the kind of girl who would cut Hebrew school to go smoke cigarettes in the rabbi’s office. During the George W. Bush administration, she jokingly created T-shirts bearing the slogan “The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own.” The shirts became a hit and their maker went along for the ride, releasing…
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Life Paula Deen and the Oppression Olympics
The website XOJane.com published a post by one of its regular contributors, India-Jewel Jackson, entitled “Let’s Talk Paula Deen and Apology Culture – Should Celebrities Be Forced to Apologize In Spite of Their Beliefs?” However, it wasn’t Jackson’s post on June 24 that caused controversy among the blog’s devoted followers – it was one of…
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Life Searching for Impermanence
[Miya Ando][1], an artist whose solo show “Impermanence” recently opened at New York’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery, is a product of two worlds. The daughter of a Russian (via California) Jewish father and Japanese Buddhist mother, she grew up in a temple and didn’t learn English until she was seven years old. Her older sister, Aviva,…
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Life Why I’m Totally Not Offended by ‘Princesses: Long Island’
We all knew it was coming. A medium as rife with ethnic stereotypes as reality television was bound to, one day, find a few spunky young Jewish women and present them to the world as JAPs. Well, that day has come. Bravo recently debuted their new reality show “Princesses: Long Island” which is about, in…
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Culture World War II’s Unsung Heroes Get Their Due at Spruced Up Lyon Museum
A new facility in Lyon, France tells the story of the local — and largely unsung — heroes of World War II. The Centre de l’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation — Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation, or CHRD — aims to educate visitors about the role of the…
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Life Aly Raisman’s Final Hurrah on ‘DWTS’
Last week, Aly Raisman’s backstage training clip was all about how, before the Olympics, she used to come in fourth place all the time. That should have been a warning. On the final week of Dancing with the Stars, producers did something different and went with a final four instead of a final three. That…
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