Sarah Breger is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog. Follow her on Twitter at @sbreger.
Sarah Breger
By Sarah Breger
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Life As Ethiopian Protests Continue, Where Do Women Fit In?
On Monday, gathered in Tel Aviv to protest police brutality and discrimination against the Ethiopian-Israeli community. Two weeks ago, protests by Israel’s Ethiopian minority against police brutality and discrimination in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv drew international attention. While the protests were sparked by a video of an Ethiopian soldier in uniform being attacked by police…
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Life The Feminist Hipster Muslim Series You Didn’t Know You Were Waiting For
Shopping for vibrators, reverse catcalling, detox cleanses — all set in the environs of Brooklyn? It may sound like an episode of “Broad City” but this comedic duo may be even edgier than Abbi and Ilana. The web series which began its second season this month, follows the adventures of Shugufta and Fatima, “two Hijabis…
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Life Watch One Woman’s Response to Unequal Pay
Buzzfeed Today is Equal Pay Day. Why? Because it is how far into the year the average woman must work to earn as much as her male counterpart earned in 2014. While making up up nearly half of the American work force, women still earn 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. (Of course,…
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Life Stav Shaffir’s ‘Politics of Happiness’
Stav Shaffir at J Street. Screenshot via YouTube. In the wake of the Israeli election and Bibi’s statements on the two state solution, it’s not surprising J Street’s annual conference focused on the fears of what the future will bring and warnings of what will happen if Israel continues on its current path. But it…
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Life Monica Lewinsky Finds Her Voice
I remember poring over the Starr Report in 1998. A special excerpt was published in the Washington Post and as a eighth grader at the time it served as the sex-ed class my school didn’t provide. But what I most remember the most was the vitriol directed toward Monica Lewinsky, less for her actions than…
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Life Bring Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Your Seder
Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can now add Torah scholar to her resume (after fashion icon and weight-lifter). On Wednesday, the 82-year-old released a feminist reading of the Exodus story to be read at the Seder. The essay, created with Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt of D.C.’s Adas Israel congregation, focuses on the women…
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Life The History of Jewish Feminism in 3 Minutes
Screenshot via Youtube It’s no secret Jewish history has traditionally been told from a male perspective, but a new animated video depicting the development of Jewish feminist consciousness provides a different take. Directed and narrated by singer-songwriter Michelle Citrin, the video focuses on biblical and historical figures such as Miriam the Prophet, Rabbi Regina Jonas,…
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Life WATCH: Postpartum: The Musical
HelloFlo is back. The company that perviously gave us “Camp Gyno” returns with a new video ad, this time about the horrors of new motherhood. In the clip, a new mom rehearses a Broadway show reveling the “terrifying abyss of motherhood” and featuring songs about cracked nipples with lines like “For what it’s worth: There’s…
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