Links for Later: the ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ Edition
Modesty is complicated. Image by Getty Images
-Teen Vogue, a more politically-engaged publication than one might assume, posted a video with interviews with young Jewish women, on their reactions to Steve Bannon’s role as a top Trump advisor.
-Sarah Weinman has a moving essay in Hazlitt about breast cancer and body image: “I didn’t take pictures because then, the idea embarrassed me. I may live a secular lifestyle but modesty, or tsniyut, keeps a vise-like hold.”
-In hipster Brooklyn, explains Lizzie Crocker in The Daily Beast (via), male parents go by “papa.”
-A Buzzfeed piece calling out some HGTV stars for belonging to a church with a problematic pastor has caused all kinds of controversy. It’s unclear whether the stars themselves share their pastor’s homophobic views; what is clear is that holding believers accountable for the political utterances of their clergy, or assuming they agree with every religious tenet of the most observant version of their faith, is not the best idea. Probably possible to call out the pastor without bringing home-decor stars into the mix (but would anyone have clicked?).
-Speaking of… turns out you now can’t wear a miniskirt to the Knesset. I will now tell the tangentially-related story of how, when I was visiting the Western Wall last May, I went along with putting the provided shawl around my otherwise shorts-clad legs (it was really hot out!) and it of course kept falling down. Opinions differ on whether an early-30s woman in shorts is scandalous; the shawl-‘round-the-ankles look, however, is universally understood as embarrassing.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy edits the Sisterhood, and can be reached at bovy@forward.com. Her book, The Perils of “Privilege”, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..
Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
