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With Trump’s Abuse In The News, Victims Speak Out
When I first saw the infamous Donald Trump Access Hollywood video a few weeks ago, in which he bragged to Billy Bush about sexually assaulting women, I instantly felt sick, enraged, and dizzyingly triggered. Little did I know that women all over the country – and perhaps the world – felt exactly as I did….
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From Secular Christianity To The Sukkah (But Watch Out For Bears)
When I was 12 I asked my mom to take me to church so I could learn about religion. I grew up in a secular Christian household. My religious upbringing was full of questions without answers and a sense that there must be something more out there. Though we celebrated secular Christmases and Easters at…
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Male Brain Only Fully Mature At 60
Every so often, those articles emerge declaring preposterously adult-sounding ages as the true cutoff for adulthood. The human brain is only really mature at 25, or maybe it’s 30 or 40. It has recently emerged, thanks to the never-ending gift that is the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle, that the true age for male adulthood…
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Jared And Ivanka: From Sukkot Sweethearts To Trump 2016 Cheerleaders
In the innocent days of 2011, a striking young couple observed Sukkot with their new baby in tow. The man pushed a stroller down the street, one hand also holding a lulav, the other being sweetly held by that of his glamorous yet modestly dressed wife. The scene made the Daily Mail Online because of…
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Donald Trump’s Groping Is All About Power — Not Sex
The hypothetical of the moment goes as follows: what if Hillary Clinton were the candidate grabbing opposite-sex colleagues without their consent? What if men, rather than women, were being objectified and drooled over during the presidential election? The same question has been posed (at least) twice in the past few days. Most recently, there was…
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Intermarriage in the Post-“Fiddler” Age
Emily Shire has an essay up at the Daily Beast whose headline reads, “How Does A Single Jew Find a Nice Goy To Date?” A catchy headline for sure, but one whose answer is, in effect, ‘By leaving the house.’ Or not even, in the age of apps. Unlike early 19th century France, when Napoleon…
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Donald Trump Hates Jews. He Hates Women Too. What If You’re Both?
Two discussions exist in parallel, not in conversation, and have pretty much made up my social-media feeds of the last few months, but the last few days especially: Trump hates Jews. Trump hates women. Look what Trump said about Jews! Look what Trump said about women! Lost in the mix is the fact—self-evident, presumably, to…
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In Jerusalem, a Chance Encounter with my Deceased Mother
JERUSALEM (JTA) — When I moved from the U.S. to Israel, I expected to feel closer to my Jewish roots. But I didn’t expect to feel closer to my mother. This is not a place I associate with her — at least it wasn’t until I had a chance meeting with a stranger a few…
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The Last Jewish Wedding in West Bloomfield
“If it’s what I fear, he may need neurosurgery,” my internist father whispered. I tried desperately to decipher the squiggles on the M.R.I. scan of my brilliant, robust husband, my hand trembling. He’d taken the test last week, after dizzy spells had left him off-balance. Before he could see a specialist, I’d asked Dad’s opinion…
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All (?) The Women Trump Has Groped
So, uh, Trump. As should not come as any surprise, but somehow kind of does, Donald’s “locker room” talk about non-consensually grabbing women’s genitalia was not, as he’d claimed during the second presidential debate, merely “words.” A candidate who had thus far come across as casually (if professionally) misogynistic (fat-shaming, ogling) has now crossed over…
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The Joys Of Parenting In Israel On Yom Kippur
I am terrible at fasting, so Yom Kippur is a day I dread. This year, though, the Day of Atonement offered a liberating surprise for me, as a transplanted mother in Israel. Between my excruciating headache and bouts of vomiting, I marveled at the amazing freedom I could give my son on this day. It’s…
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