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Links for Later: The Melania-Gown Edition

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By Phoebe Maltz Bovy December 8, 2016

-Rachel Lubitz has a list of fashion designer who are OK with, ambivalent about, or against dressing Melania Trump. The Jewish designer (and Holocaust survivor’s daughter) Diane von Furstenberg, who at one point sold a “Melania” dress, is among the OK-with-it. Huh.

-Michelle Goldberg defends Keith Ellison from charges of anti-Semitism.

-Irin Carmon takes a closer look at anti-abortion legislation in Ohio.

-Cathryn J. Prince reports on a panel discussion featuring pioneering women rabbis.

-Alanna Evans interviews author Summer Brennan, who (temporarily) dodged Twitter trolls by (temporarily) swapping out her own face for her brother’s as her Twitter avatar.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog at the Forward. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Her book, “The Perils of ‘Privilege,’” was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017. She has a PhD in French and French Studies from New York University, and has read a lot of 19th century French Jewish newspapers for a 21st century American.

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