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‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Won Me Back With Soju
It had been a while, but I’m catching up on “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” If you’re watching Season 2 and not sure if it’s worth staying with, do yourself this favor: Episode 9. It is quite possibly the best one yet. What follows is a spoiler-filled celebration. But first, a word on where we’re at in the…
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My All-American Bargain Handbag, Assessed
Recently I was in lower Manhattan, when one glamorous-looking woman made a remark to the similarly style-conscious woman she was with about how everybody has that bag. They were looking at me! At my handbag. By “handbag” I mean this $39 camouflage tote bag. As the “backordered” note suggests, everyone does indeed have this bag….
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Vichy is Trending. Say What Now?
I was reading the hard news, aka the Zara website. Something caught my eye in the “trend” section: Vichy. Specifically, #vichy. Um. Why, I wondered, is Vichy trending? Does this have anything to do with Marine le Pen and the resurgence of the French far-right? If you go to the “vichy” trend page, what appears…
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Can a Non-Jewish Woman Write Frum Erotica?
When I saw a tweet referencing an “Orthodox Jewish BDSM erotic romance” while waiting on line at a bakery just now, I immediately knew that this would be a Sisterhood post. I had so many questions! And still have plenty; this was about an hour ago, so I can’t say I’ve (yet) read the book…
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Do Jewish Women Put Out? Auslander Listicle Is Frustratingly Man-centric
In the (British) Jewish Chronicle, American novelist Shalom Auslander offers, tongue firmly in cheek as the odd expression goes, “The 10 classic types of Jew, and how to decide which one you are.” The list is intended “to help both Nazis and Jews hone their accusations a bit more pointedly.” I like things like this…
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Philadelphia Rabbi Celebrates New Women’s Interfaith Initiative
A mere thirteen days before the presidential election, the Interfaith Center of Philadelphia formally launched the first of its kind program entitled “Visionary Women: Rooted in Faith, Committed to Justice.” Associate Executive Director of the Interfaith Center, Nicole Diroff was concerned that at best, twenty women would sign on and she would feel compelled to…
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What Fighting Anti-Semitism Can Teach Us About Battling Transphobia
I can’t say I’m surprised that President Trump has reversed Obama-administration guidelines allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice. Yes, partly because it seems like the sort of thing he’d do, but also, more specifically, because of what “Transgender” has come to represent in the culture. This is a topic that ought…
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Getting a Feminist Get
When my ex and I divorced in 2010, I didn’t think much about a get. I loved him but I knew that the relationship was beyond repair. Our civil divorce was uncomplicated. We’d been married only two years, and had no children together. We agreed that both of us would leave the marriage with what…
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Amazingly, One Can Care About Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
It is plainly upsetting that JCCs, which are among other things nursery schools, are getting bomb threats. It’s sufficiently non-controversial to call this bad that even Ivanka Trump, even (eventually) President Trump, got on that bandwagon. Not everyone, however, is similarly convinced. Journalist Michael Tracey is at the ready with a contrarian take on whether…
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Photography Project Takes On Jewish Women’s Body Image Concerns
What do you get when you cross a feminist Jewish psychotherapist who works with women affected by body-image issues and a photographer? A photographic exhibition exploring the complex relationship Jewish women have with their bodies, of course. “The emBODYment of Jewish Femininity” exhibition debuted at the JOFA Conference which took place in New York City…
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Atlantic Essay Explores (Jewish?) Hair Anxieties
Yes, of course, of course, when I saw the headline, “My Lifelong Frizz-Ease Addiction: How I became convinced my hair wasn’t curly, it was defective,” I clicked. I clicked the provincial click of someone who knows that product (and its tendency to ooze over everything else in a bag) all too well. Emily Anne Epstein’s…
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