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When An Artist Becomes A Mother
Recent studies show that only 30% of artists represented by galleries are female. This statistic is troubling, given that women comprise 80% of BFA graduates, and 60% of MFA graduates. In, The Sisterhood aims to shed light on this staggering gender skew in the art world. We will be interviewing different female artists, in order…
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Playing Hasidic Woman in ‘Felix and Meira’ — Again
In the 2012 Israeli film “Fill the Void,” winsome actress Hadas Yaron played Shira Mendelman, a young Hasidic woman who (spoiler alert) marries her dead sister’s husband. Her portrayal of a religious girl in turmoil made such an impression on the international film community –– she took home the Volpi Award for Best Actress at…
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Bringing Holocaust Victim’s Fashion Designs Back To Life
On a freezing morning this winter a group of visitors gathered at a museum gallery in Wisconsin, surrounded by mannequins dressed in what would have been the latest fashion — if you were in the Europe of the late 1930s. At first glance it looked like the Jewish Museum Milwaukee was putting on a standard…
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A Brief History of Mikveh in the Ghettos
This piece was written by and shared with permission from the . Throughout history, the mikveh has stood at the very core of religious Jewish life and practice, and said to protect the Jewish people both physically and spiritually. It is therefore fitting on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, to explore some of the…
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Watch One Woman’s Response to Unequal Pay
Buzzfeed Today is Equal Pay Day. Why? Because it is how far into the year the average woman must work to earn as much as her male counterpart earned in 2014. While making up up nearly half of the American work force, women still earn 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. (Of course,…
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Turning Rape and Bulimia Into Comedy
Jessie Kahnweiler, right, with her mother, Jennifer Kahnweiler, at the 2013 Los Angeles premiere of Jessie’s web series “Dude, Where’s My Chutzpah?” (Clark Henry) (JTA) — In an early episode of “Dude, Where’s My Chutzpah?,” the 2013 docu-comedy web series by Jessie Kahnweiler that put her on the comedic map, Kahnweiler’s character ends up at…
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Pulpit Plus One: ‘I Built My Own Castle’
llustration by Lior Zaltzman “Pulpit Plus One: The Secret Lives of Rabbis’ Husbands, Partners, and Wives” features the voices and experiences of the partners of pulpit rabbis. In this interview series, “Pulpit Plus One” takes an honest and lively look into the nuances of a complex role. Tamar is a 36-year-old Jewish communal professional in…
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Israeli Women Are More Than Bullets and Bikinis
The character of Ziva David on the TV show NCIS is a classic stereotype of the Israeli women. Via Wikicommons When you google “israeli woman,” the first thing you see is the images. Sexy, tough, military, or all three. After the images, you get the expected results: a Wikipedia page for “Women in Israel,” an…
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A Dialogue on Mad Men’s Rachel Menken
AMC Is Rachel Menken the ‘One Who Got Away’? Tara Metal “Mad Men” is a show about reinvention and regret. Our hero, Don Draper, pulls himself out of an abusive, impoverished childhood and becomes a successful ad man on Madison Avenue. He has it all, yet he always wants more. Season 7 (Part 2) of “Mad…
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A Manifesto for the Unsung Female Artist
Recent studies show that only 30% of artists represented by galleries are female. This statistic is troubling, given that women comprise 80% of BFA graduates, and 60% of MFA graduates. In this series, The Sisterhood aims to shed light on this staggering gender skew in the art world. We will be interviewing different female artists,…
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Lore Krüger’s Suitcase Full of Pictures
BERLIN – This city’s Willy-Brandt-Haus is currently showing an exhibition of the U.S. street photographer Vivian Maier, who gained fame only after her death. At another venue in the city, meanwhile, the work of an artist who could be called Maier’s local equivalent is on display: The photography museum C|O Berlin is holding the first-ever…
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