Sarah Seltzer
By Sarah Seltzer
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Life Let’s Talk About Incarcerated Women on Passover
Thinkstock During Passover it’s our obligation to think about all the people who are in chains who should be free — whether they are Jewish or not. Today, as I sit at my desk longing to munch on anything but another matzo sandwich (how oppressed my taste buds are!), I’m thinking not just about frightening…
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Life Not Another ‘Jewish Hotties’ Slideshow
Thinkstock Oh Daily Caller, no you didn’t just publish a slideshow of Jewish hotties under the tenuously time-pegged slogan “13 Jewish Hotties We Wouldn’t Pass Over.” Just no. In addition to being outright objectifying without even a trace of hipster irony, there’s something a little unpleasant about the project, as if the fact that Jewish…
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Life The Best Reasons to Unplug
Thinkstock During Lent and Passover, we are told to renounce: food, mostly, but bad habits too. One New York congregation, Romemu, has gone even further, arguing that email is virtual hametz, something to drop during Passover. I’m as compelled by the ebb and flow of cleanses and abstinence — followed and preceded by hedonism, of…
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Life Louisa Solomon of The Shondes Talks Censorship
Shondes.com // Louisa Solomon of The Shondes Louisa Solomon is the feminist lead singer of The Shondes, a punk-rock band (think “Bruce Springsteen meets Bikini Kill,” she jokes) with openly queer members. The Forward once said she had “ a talent for androgynous sass.” Although the group espouses punk’s rebellious ethos and sometimes touch on…
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Life Why Hobby Lobby Supreme Case Matters
Getty Images // A protest against Hobby Lobby’s contraceptive policy Today the Supreme Court will hear the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cases arguing that religiously-inclined private employers should be able to exempt themselves from the ACA’s contraception mandate. When I initially wrote that Jews, as a religious minority in the country, should be alarmed…
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Life How Pat Boone Saved My Jewish Soul
Memoirist and abuse survivor Sue William Silverman tackles her relationship to “the tribe” in her latest book. Sue William Silverman is nothing if not a courageous memoirist. Her first two books, “Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You” and “Love Sick” were each taboo-breakers, detailing in turn the author’s sexual abuse at the hands…
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Life Abortion Belongs in TED Talks, And Beyond
Last week, feminists launched a flurry of actions demanding the inclusion of abortion rights as a topic tackled by trendy TED talks. A representative from TED, interviewed by Jessica Valenti for her column in the Nation, had deemed the subject too political and controversial. This admission was followed by a petition from NARAL and general…
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Life ‘Broad City’ Lady Stoners a Feminist Triumph
I love the pot-puffing Jewish broads of Broad City (both of whom the Forward recently interviewed about their very raunchy new Comedy Central show.) The show’s protagonists are “Abbi” (left in the photo) and “Ilana” (right), heightened versions of their creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. These gals are not “strong female characters” in the…
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