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Jewish Women’s Group Celebrates 80 Years of Friendship
In 1936, 12 young Jewish girls in Hillside, NJ, faced a dilemma. At ages 7 and 8, they were interested in joining their local Brownie troop—but they and their families felt less than comfortable with troop’s choice of a local church as a meeting place when secular spaces were available. Worse, having faced some anti-Semitic…
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‘Oh Man, Do I Look Too Jewish?’
On the latest Blabbermouth podcast, which I intend to finish listening to an an upcoming poodle-walk, reporter Sydney Brownstone, who has been covering the Standing Rock protests, turns to a more personal topic: “I have lived for 26 years under the illusion that I am unconditionally white, for example, and in pictures recently I have…
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Links for Later: the ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ Edition
-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….
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Ann Coulter Spoke at White Nationalist Writers Workshop
Right-wing-personality Ann Coulter once again proved her close ties to white nationalism by speaking at the annual “Writers Workshop” event put on by the anti-immigrant and white nationalist publishing house The Social Contract Press. Video of the event was uploaded late last month and discovered this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a…
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Mandatory Fetus-Funerals Coming to Texas
New rules in Texas — not proposed rules or rules speculated in the abstract in a philosophy seminar, but actual, real-life rules — require medical facilities that perform abortions to treat fetal tissue as dead bodies, either burying or cremating the tissue in question. A chilling sentence from Tracy Clark-Flory’s Vocativ piece on the story…
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Natalie Portman Is Getting Her First Christmas Tree — and Fulfilling ‘Every Jew’s Secret Wish’
On “The Tonight Show” last night, Natalie Portman filled in Jimmy Fallon on her plans for this year’s overlapping Christmas and Hanukkah, a calendar coincidence Portman called “really nice.” As she told Fallon, her family celebrates Christmas with her in-laws and Hanukkah with her side of the family. This year, it’s going to be one…
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Instagram’s Glitzy ‘Dear Ivanka’ Pleads: Save Us From Donald Trump
The messages are written in the voice of a close friend, appealing for help. “Dear Ivanka,” they all begin. “I’m afraid of the swastikas spray painted on my park.” “I’ve been raped and I need to have an abortion.” “I’m an American Muslim and I was attacked on the subway.” The instagram account @dearivanka appeared…
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A Jewish Therapist Asks: ‘How Can I Treat Patients When the World is Spinning Out of Control?’
Since Trump became President Elect, my ‘fear belly’ has returned. I first experienced this acidic-laced stabbing in the gut as a child listening to my mother’s stories about the horrors of her childhood in Dabrowa, Poland. By the time I became a therapist in mid-life, fear belly had largely dissipated. Helping patients find their strength…
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Why We Forgive Rory Gilmores and Ivanka Trumps but not Hannah Horvaths and Hillary Clintons
I’ve spent the last day or so preoccupied by a question: Why is Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham’s “Girls” protagonist, this villain, not just an anti-heroine but (conflated with her creator) blamed for the election of Donald Trump… while Rory Gilmore, that other television-show protagonist, is… fine, somewhat despised in light of her reappearance in the…
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Forward Profile of Teen Weightlifter Inspires Documentary
In 2012, The Forward’s Naomi Zeveloff reported on the World’s Strongest Girl, 10 year old Naomi Kutin, who, at the time, was about to start sixth grade at Yeshivat Noam Day School in New Jersey. Kutin, who had been setting powerlifting records since age eight and trains with her father, Ed, could lift nearly three…
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Kickass Jewish Woman of the Day: Attorney Carrie A. Goldberg
In the New Yorker, Margaret Talbot profiles Carrie Goldberg, “a thirty-nine-year-old Brooklyn attorney with a practice specializing in sexual privacy, a new field of law that has emerged, in large part, to confront some of the grosser indulgences of the Internet.” Goldberg represents victims of what’s commonly known as revenge porn, although as Goldberg makes…
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