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Megyn Kelly isn’t ‘Fascinated With Sex.’ Trump-Surrogate Newt Gingrich Might Be.
The problem, Americans had heard for years, was that we, unlike our more sophisticated counterparts across the Atlantic, expected puritanical saintliness from our politicians. Why couldn’t we just (tosses neck-scarf) look the other way, and focus on our leaders’ ability to do the job? And then, 2016 happened. All of a sudden, we have a…
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The Secret Jewishness of Inspector Hercule Poirot
When I noticed the other day that Liz Meriwether had recommended Agatha Christie’s Poirot as an “antidote to the 2016 election” in New York Magazine back in August, I had one of those moments where you can deeply, personally, relate to an article. Here is Meriwether, on fictional private detective Hercule Poirot’s signature mustache: “As…
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WATCH: Polish Women, in Black, Protest Proposed Abortion Laws
At the beginning of October, protestors in Poland, dressed in black, successfully prevented that nation’s government from turning already-restrictive abortion laws into a ban. Earlier this week, protestors took on the latest proposal from this strongly Catholic country: a restriction on abortion even in cases where the fetus would not survive, or is severely deformed….
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Ivanka, We’re Not Buying It — Your Words, or Your Clothes
Everyone! #GrabYourWallet & tell the stores that sell Donald’s products and those of his campaign surrogates: we won’t shop until they drop. pic.twitter.com/6XK3EAGdlV — Shannon Coulter ? (@shannoncoulter) October 20, 2016 The great ambiguity at the center of the Trump campaign goes as follows: Are we witnessing a grand political ambition, or a great big…
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Jewish and Arab Israeli Women March to ‘Wage Peace’
Masses of women wearing white and chanting songs of peace made their way through the dust of northern Israel on their way to Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley. It was the fifth day of the March of Hope, and a core group of 19 women, surrounded by hundreds of supporters, were walking for peace….
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Leggings as Anti-Trump Protest?
Due to Trump’s overt misogyny, there’s been a shift not just in how American women discuss abuse, but in how even relatively minor blips of sexism are received by a fed-up population. I’m thinking, specifically, of my own reaction to a blog comment that was, in turn, tangentially in response to Alice Robb’s brilliant Elle…
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Adventures of a Secular Jew in Satmar Brooklyn
Before we got married, my husband, Tom, lived in an old limestone tenement in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. North Williamsburg had already become hipsterville, but almost every building south of Broadway housed Satmar families. If you’ve driven through Brooklyn on a Friday night or Saturday morning, you have at least glimpsed Satmar families walking to synagogue,…
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Men In Makeup: Feminist Triumph Or Capitalist Gambit?
I was recently at a Cos store in lower Manhattan, browsing the minimalist Scandinavian fashions alongside some Hasidic women and children when I suddenly noticed that there were men with them as well. I say “suddenly” because what I immediately noticed was that the men were wearing shtreimels, the large fur hats some observant Jewish…
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Links For Later
Below, dear Sisterhood readers, you will find links to some stories that at least one Jewish woman (moi) thought seemed enticing. -At Eater, Charlotte Druckman published a Paris dining guide with a Jewish twist: “I remember, as we walked the narrow, cobblestoned streets with even narrower sidewalks that are the oldest part of the city,…
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No One Has More Respect For Women Than Donald Trump — Except If They’re ‘Nasty’
“Nobody has more respect for women than I do” is, coming from Trump, the sort of lie that can’t be fact-checked. It’s like when the pizza place on the corner, the one with no customers, puts up a sign declaring it has the “best pizza” in New York. By the time Donald Trump got around…
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Taylor Swift Probably Isn’t Jewish But Very Well Could Be
With online anti-Semitism running rampant, and with this evening’s presidential debate likely to make life in the public sphere that much more delightful for Jews, the question is, what do we do? How do we cope? I urge you to read journalist Ned Resnikoff’s Medium post, “Nobody talks about the fact that Taylor Swift is…
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