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Mimicking the GOP, Naftali Bennett’s Lady-Themed Ad Is Not a Good Thing
Screenshot vis YouTube Women like to talk about men. They also like to exercise. And often do these two things at once. At least that’s what I learned from Naftali Bennett’s new campaign video. In it a pair of attractive seemingly secular women appear in five vignettes. In each vignette they are shown conversing about…
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Five Quotes From Bess Myerson, The Only Jewish Miss America
Ed Koch, Bess Myerson, and Henry Kissinger at Stephen S. Wise Award Dinner, 1977 via flickr Bess Myerson, who died last month at the age of 90, was once described as ”the closest thing to a bona fide intellectual ever to cross a stage in a bathing suit.” The first (and only) Jewish Miss America,…
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The Danger of the ‘Nice Jewish Guy’
via Flickr/Creative Commons Last month, Randi Weingarten, president of American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, published a piece on Jezebel.com detailing her experience with sexual assault as a college student. During a summer internship at an automobile plant in Warren, Ohio, after her junior year in college, Weingarten found herself feeling lonely and isolated. “I tried…
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In Jewish Studies, Women Remain ‘Second Sex’
Whenever I tell my thirteen year old daughter Shira about an article I’m writing or a presentation I’m giving, the first thing she asks me is “Will you be paid?” This simple question illustrates that female Jewish academics are still the “second sex” in the American University system. In his plenary address at the annual…
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When Being Black Is a Family Secret
Lacey Schwartz at the age of 2 with her mother, Peggy, in an image from “Little White Lie.” When Lacey Schwartz was accepted at Georgetown University, it was a dream come true. It also blew the lid off a tightly-guarded secret. Along with her admission, the high school senior from Woodstock, New York received an…
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5 Things Jewish Women Will Do in 2015
Lior Zaltzman In 2014 we saw everyone from Beyoncé to Joseph Gordon-Levitt embrace feminism, a video clip titled “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman” spark a debate about street harassment, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg become a cultural icon. As 2015 begins here are five trends to look out for. Funny Women Will…
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WATCH: Helen Mirren in ‘Women in Gold’
Helen Mirren stars in the true-story of Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee forced to flee World War II Vienna, and her fight to reclaim her family’s artwork stolen by the Nazis. The movie revolves around one painting in particular, the portrait of Altmann’s aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, painted by Gustave Klimt and considered to be the…
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Racheli Ibenboim Is Galvanizing the Haredi Women Vote
(JTA) — Racheli Ibenboim acts as if she’s in a rush, repeatedly checking her phone before hurrying off to her next appointment exactly 30 minutes after the current one begins. The way Ibenboim tells it, she’s not just trying to keep up with a tight schedule but with a rapidly changing world. Two years ago,…
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Picturing Mary, History’s Best-Known Jewish Woman
Nicolò Barabino’s 1884 mural “Faith with Representations,” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts An exhibit about the Virgin Mary, which is curated by a Florentine priest, makes the case that the mother of Jesus must be understood, at least in part, as a Jewish woman. That the Christian messiah’s mother was born…
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Learning to Love Christmas, Eggnog and All
Photograph via Flickr/Creative Commons As an Orthodox Jew who believes in the world to come while participating pretty fully in the world at large, I will admit that there are certain things I like about Christmas aka “the holiday season.” I like the festive spirit, the Starbucks sweet and spicy Christmas blend coffee, and the…
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Why Merav Michaeli Is Upbeat About the Israeli Left
Photograph via flickr Merav Michaeli, the Israeli journalist and women’s rights activist-turned-Knesset member for the Labor Party, is a sign of hope for a progressive future in Israel. Last Tuesday, she tried to convince an exclusive crowd of worried Jewish leftists gathered in an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that there was hope for…
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