Tsafi Saar (Haaretz)
By Tsafi Saar (Haaretz)
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Life The Hasidic Mother of Seven Who’s Also a Screenwriter — and Sex Poet
A day after Marilyn Wennig was interviewed on Channel 2’s late night news show about the Oscars, she asked her parents how they liked the show. “You’ve put on a lot of weight,” they told her. In our interview she explains how in the secular world and the family in which she was raised in…
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Life Demand for Israeli Combat Soldiers’ Sperm Is on the Rise
Some things are beyond me. I can understand a woman going to a sperm bank so she can have a child, and requesting a smart donor. That makes sense. I can even kind of understand a woman who, in contemporary Israel, chooses to have a blond and blue-eyed donor — assuming her wish stems from…
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Life Can 30 Women in Israel’s Parliament Make a Difference?
Miri Regev, Tamar Zandberg, Ayelet Shaked, Stav Shaffir. There are a number of women who serve in the Knesset today, and a few are even cabinet ministers. In addition to achieving political prominence, they have also had a taste of the pleasures of sexism: Regev is a “vulgar Mizrahi,” Zandberg is a “leftist in a…
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