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This Is Not About Emma Sulkowicz’s Rape — It Is About You
Late last week, Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who spent her last year of college with her mattress strapped to her back, released a new rape-related performance piece to the public, titled “Ceci N’est Past Un Viol (This Is Not A Rape)”. Hosted on its own webpage, and existing entirely on the internet, the…
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Steven Sotloff’s Mother Talks of Her Son’s ‘Two Lives’
Shirley Sotloff, whose son, Steven, was beheaded last year by Islamic State militants, of her son’s life and legacy at the Newseum in Washington DC on Monday. “‘Everyone has two lives. The second one begins when you realize that you only have one.’ These are the words my late son Steven Joel Sotloff wrote during…
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How a Nice Jewish Girl Became the Youngest Human Cannonball
Gemma “the Jet” Kirby can fly. In fact, it’s her job. As the youngest female human cannonball with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Xtreme, the 25-year-old dynamo hurtles through the air at every performance. She’s also the only Jewish cannonballer currently with the traveling troupe. Kirby isn’t the first woman to go…
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A Wearable Device For Around The Clock Fetal Monitoring
(Reuters)- Israeli medical experts have developed a wearable mobile monitor to keep a close watch on pregnant women and their fetuses as they go about their everyday lives. The PregSense monitor has sensors woven into an elastic harness to provide data around the clock on the status of the fetus and the mother’s health in…
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Why Orthodoxy Needs Better Sexual Assault Education
This past semester, I participated in the , part of the international movement encouraging allies to wear denim in solidarity with sexual assault survivors. Wearing a jean skirt and a sticker informing onlookers to “ask me why denim,” I fielded a lot of genuine inquiries about the origins, purpose, and goals of the Denim Day…
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Why Sheryl Sandberg Is Choosing Life by Sharing Grief
When the rabbis, priests, imams and mystics created religious rules and customs surrounding loss and mourning, they did so with varying approaches to respecting the dead and creating the structures for mourners to reconnect to local community. But they never saw the Internet coming. Beyond the religious texts and self-help books, the Internet has vastly…
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Why I Have ‘All-of-a-Kind’ Déjà Vu
In 1951, Follett published Sydney Taylor’s “All-of-a-Kind Family,” the first children’s book for a mass audience that featured American Jews. It’s been in print ever since. The Jewish tenements on the Lower East Side at the turn of the century glow with nostalgia; think Proust’s madeleine as a challah. Taylor’s editor worried that readers wouldn’t…
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Is Viagra for Women Kosher?
Yesterday, the New York Times an article about a pill that is being marketed as a “female viagra,” to increase female sexual desire for women who might not be feeling aroused as often as they would like, or as they feel they should. The drug is, understandably, controversial, partly because it has a high rate…
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Did Dr. Ruth Just Compare Rape to Jaywalking?
Someone needs to remind Dr. Ruth that “No, means no.” Everyone’s favorite dirty bubbe has faced some heavy criticism in the past couple of days after she revealed some very problematic views on consent while promoting her latest book, “The Doctor Is In: Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre.” But rather than…
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Breast Cancer Advocate Rochelle Shoretz Dies At 42
Rochelle Shoretz, a longtime advocate for women with cancer, died Sunday from complications of breast cancer. She was 42. Shoretz was the founder of Sharsheret, a national organization for young Jewish women facing breast and ovarian cancer. Shoretz established the non-profit in 2001, after her own diagnosis at the age of 28. The organization sought…
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Agnieszka Kurant and the Art of What’s Missing
On June 5, Agnieszka Kurant will become one of only a handful of artists to have their work adorn the famous curved facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum here. Kurant’s “The End of Signature,” a neon white projection created from the actual signatures of museum visitors with the help of a computer program, is…
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