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Gloria Steinem Shares Anecdote About Casual Retail Anti-Semitism
Feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem, whose series about anti-woman violence appears on Viceland UK on March 8th, International Women’s Day, recently gave a fascinating interview to Rosanna Greenstreet in the Guardian. One part especially jumped out: What’s the worst job you’ve done? Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things…
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Jewish Handmade Resistance: Why Ethical Fashion Is About More Than Boycotts
Jewish women’s use of fashion as a powerful force of resistance is much, much older than a ‘buycott.’ While many feel that how your spending reflects your values is important, we can choose to spend little or no money. We can still make our political views known. In one of the oldest Jewish examples, Yocheved,…
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Battling Hate As Jews In The Spirit Of Queen Esther
(JTA) — Shots fired into a classroom window at an Indiana synagogue. Cemeteries desecrated in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and New York. Swastikas scrawled on Jewish buildings. More than 100 bomb threats called in to Jewish community centers. History doesn’t always repeat itself, but echoes of the darkest chapters serve as warnings. We study the past and…
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WATCH: Tovah Feldshuh and Patti LuPone Sing of Sad Jewish History
So I was late to Season 2 of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” but am up to speed and can safely say it’s must-see viewing for a Sisterhood reader, or anyone, for that matter. But if there’s one moment that a Sisterhood reader should consider basically assigned viewing, it’s the song, “Remember That We Suffered,” which features legend…
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Women’s Strike Wednesday, March 8: The Essentials
March is Women’s History Month, and on March 8th, International Women’s Day, there’s going to be a Women’s Strike, called “A Day Without A Woman.”* What does this mean? The Women’s March folks, who are organizing this as well, have the info: Anyone, anywhere, can join by making March 8th A Day Without a Woman,…
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Tikkun Olam In La Crosse, Wisconsin
Since her move to La Crosse, Wisconsin over twenty years ago, attorney and community advocate Maureen Freedland has worked nonstop toward providing equal opportunity to people and their environments in this small town on the Mississippi River. I met Maureen during her first visit to La Crosse and, since then, we’ve become each other’s family…
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Getting ‘The Last Laugh’ In The Face Of Tragedy
Director Ferne Pearlstein began to consider her most recent documentary, The Last Laugh, 26 years before the film had its world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. This lengthy gestation period can be attributed, to some extent, to the documentary’s not-so-user-friendly focus: The role of humor during and regarding the Holocaust. But Pearlstein’s dedication…
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Why Ivanka’s Bra Strap Dress Was Just Fine
Of all the things the world gives us to panic about, the fact that Ivanka Trump’s bra strap was showing during President Trump’s speech to the joint session of Congress ranks near, or perhaps at, the bottom. I can kind of see caring that the dress is French, and could see reading into that choice…
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‘The Future Of Media’: Looking Kinda Male
The Hollywood Reporter has a cover story on CNN’s lineup. CNN producer Josiah Daniel Ryan was pleased, tweeting as follows: “The future of media looks like this.” The cover already might have Caused Controversy, but that “future of media” bit, evocative of “the future is female,” probably put things over the edge: The internet has…
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Justice Kagan’s Facial Expression During Trump’s Speech: An Appreciation
Yeah, I have a thought or two about President Trump’s speech to Congress last night. But there’s a moment that struck me, and apparently many others, and that has Sisterhood written alllll over it: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s facial expression as Trump mentioned Israel. I was going to write a reaction to last night’s…
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Why My Yiddish-Speaking Family Celebrates ‘English-Speaking Day’
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When I got married, I decided to speak Yiddish to my children, and not just any Yiddish, but my husband’s “heymish Yiddish”; in other words – Hasidic Yiddish. I was able to carry out my plan quickly since I was marrying a divorced father of three, so…
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