Prime Ribs: No Women on Main Street; Is Birth Control ‘Preventive’?
In the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, attempts to ban women from the main street during Sukkot has prompted protests.
The “lactivist” community is calling for a boycott of Old Navy because the retailer is selling “Formula Powered” onesies. As Deborah Kolben points out on Kveller, Jewish tradition “recognizes that breastfeeding is both a burden and a blessing.”
Beginning this week, federal regulations require health insurance companies to provide free preventive health services — but those preventive services do not include free birth control, at least not yet.
Chaim Levinson speaks with Atara Kenigsberg about her campaign to get a woman — maybe herself — appointed director general of Israel’s rabbinical courts.
Levirate marriage no longer common practice. But in Israel halitza ceremonies, in which the brother of a deceased man relinquishes the right to his widow, are still required. Women’s eNews looks at the custom that one widow called “humiliating.”
Haaretz revisits “The Yiddish Housewives’ Cookbook” — published in Vilna, back in 1896. Warning: Some of the recipes call for a pastry chef.
Why I became the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief
- Alyssa Katz, Editor-in-Chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
