Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Music Sara Kamin: Singer-Songwriter-Psychotherapist
Singer and songwriter Sara Kamin jokes that she never sleeps. That’s because she’s juggling a burgeoning music career with teaching college-level psychology classes and completing her post-graduate studies in psychotherapy. The Toronto-based Kamin, 30. has three folk/pop/blues albums under her belt. And her music has been getting increased attention — and airplay — thanks in…
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Culture Meet the ‘Tichel Cuties’
Look what just hit the Internet — the Tichel Cuties (tichel being the scarf that traditionally observant Jewish women wear over their hair once they are married) singing a kosher version of some Lady Gaga songs. Well, it may be kosher, but it’s not so innocent. The sexual overtones — not to mention some of…
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Life How Women Are Learning To Speak Up — in Print
You’d think that at the age of 43, I’d know what I’m good at. But there I was recently participating in a workshop run by Katie Orenstein of The OpEd Project, completely freaked out at the notion of having to identify what I am an expert in. My mind was a blank. I knew I…
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Life Are We Confusing Hype With Hiddur?
I’m no fashion designer, but I have been thinking a lot lately about haute couture and prêt-à-porter. That’s because I am a Jewish educator and two big Jewish events have come to town. The “Reinventing Ritual” exhibition has arrived at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum from The Jewish Museum in New York, and Dawn 2010,…
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Life Navah Paskowitz-Walther: The Jewish Mother of Surfing’s First Family
Knowing Navah Paskowitz-Walther today as a San Fernando Valley stay-at-home mom who is active in her synagogue and children’s Jewish day school, it is hard to believe that, as a child, she lived a peripatetic existence in a 24-foot camper. Growing up as the only girl in a Jewish family of nine children, she surfed…
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Life Why Abbie Dorn Deserves To See Her Children
When I look at Abbie Dorn — the 34-year-old, severely disabled Lubavitch woman, whose parents are fighting on her behalf, against her ex-husband — I see my late friend Risa Hirt. Abbie’s parents are advocating for Abbie’s right to visit with her children, triplets born in June 2006. Daniel Dorn, who divorced Abbie a year…
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Life Israeli Teens Share Their Coming-Out Stories
When I was growing up in Canada, I always looked up to Israeli teenagers. I was fortunate to spend my high school summers in Israel and participate in programs together with Israeli teens, which served to intensify my admiration for them. I thought they were strong, bold and courageous for both getting drafted to the…
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