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Why Ann Coulter’s Pro-Trump ‘4 Grandparents’ Tweet Is So Scary for Jews
Right-wing personality-shall-we-say Ann Coulter tweeted her wishes that “only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America” could vote, because then, Trump would, she believes, win the election. Coulter, who I will confess I’d mostly lost track of, in the blur of 2016 horribleness and 1990s revivalism, has evidently — see Cathy Young —…
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Orthodox Papers Feud Over Using Image of Hillary Clinton
After one haredi Orthodox newspaper printed a photo of Hillary Clinton, a rival haredi paper accused it of breaking Jewish law. Hamodia, a Hebrew paper in Israel, in an editorial this week denounced the decision by Mishpacha magazine, according to Yeshiva World News. Mishpacha, which is published in the United States and Israel, made history…
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Men Ask the Important Questions: Is Hillary Hot Enough, or Too Hot, to be President?
Much has been said over the past few weeks – and rightly so – about the near-universal female experience of being preyed upon by men. What we hear a bit less about is the other version of what is, in either incarnation, a misogynist power move: men announcing that women are unattractive, as a way…
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Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter: Trump a Reminder of Dark Years
‘Politico’ reporter Hadas Gold was sent an anti-Semitic death threat by a Trump supporter https://t.co/J74AumoWwY pic.twitter.com/TRZab4hY32 — Mic (@mic) October 21, 2016 A bullet hole was traced onto Hadas Gold’s blood-spattered forehead. The photo in the news article showed an accompanying message: ‘Don’t mess with our boy Trump, or you’ll be first in line for…
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Trump Official Compares Miami Voters to Moody Housewives
Trump official on tomorrow’s turnout: “It’s like predicting your wife’s mood. You have no idea what you’re going to get until you get home” — Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) November 7, 2016 At Bloomberg, Joshua Green reports on the election in Florida’s Miami-Dade County, with a doozy of a quote from one “Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital…
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WATCH (NSFW): Rachel Bloom and an All-Star Cast Sing an Urgent Reminder: Vote!
Did you have plans for Tuesday? Do they include… voting? They should! In a new Funny or Die video, Rachel Bloom of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend fame, along with a number of people who also look famous, use their platform to remind us all to vote. For Hillary Clinton. HOLY SH*T (You’ve Got To Vote) from Funny…
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Finding Personal and Jewish Significance in ‘This is Us’
In watching the heart-wrenching pilot for NBC’s This is Us, I connected with Mandy Moore’s Rebecca Pearson. Hugely pregnant with triplets, Rebecca was a woman whose life is on the verge of transformation. I identified with Rebecca as a wife and mother, who also happens to be pregnant with my own third child. However, since…
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Links for Later, Pre-Election Panic Edition
Hello, Sisterhood readers! First off, there’s this thing happening next week, relevant to Americans, indirectly relevant to all. On Tuesday, November 8th. It’s Election Day in the U.S., and yeah, it would be an excellent idea for you to vote. Vote! Don’t just assume Hillary Clinton will win. She might not! There are all those…
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Fueled by Jewish Memory, Helping Sudanese Refugees
Ten years ago I received a phone call that changed my life. Gerri Trooskin, the director of our city-wide book club, One Book, One Philadelphia, called me with an unusual request. She asked me to choose ten of my Drexel University undergraduate creative writing students to interview ten Sudanese refugees. These interviews would be serialized…
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In the ‘Crisis of Whiteness’, Where Do Jews Fall?
There’s nothing quite like getting trolled by alt-right Twitter to make you an amateur expert in this coherent new ideology. But what’s struck me — both in tweets at me and in ones I’ve just seen floating around — is that there isn’t quite the unanimity of anti-Semitism one would expect. That is, there’s this…
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Here’s a Terrifying Prospect: The ‘Ivanka Voter’
At Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen reports on female Trump supporters she’s met while covering the elections. These voters are, Petersen explains, white, suburban, and wealthier than the Trump supporters usually seen in news coverage. (These women “likely shop at Whole Foods, and go to Pilates, and maybe even admire Michelle Obama.”) And their gateway drug…
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