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Orit Struck’s Delusional ‘Feminist’ Win
Photograph via Flash90 Orit Struck may be a leading figure in the Tekuma [Revival] bloc of the Bayit Ha-Yehudi [Jewish Home] party in Israel, but it appears feminism “struck out” in its latest turn at electoral bat. This week, the ultra-hawkish faction of the right-wing party withdrew its threat to abandon Natfali Bennett for a…
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How Does a Therapy ‘Junkie’ Say Goodbye to Shrink
“The prognosis is very poor,” she told me that night over the phone. Joan, my therapist at the time, had keeled over while painting in an art class. “If she lives,” Barbara explained to me, as she’d been explaining and would continue to explain over the phone to Joan’s patients all night, “she won’t ever…
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Jessie Kornberg Brings Justice to Los Angeles
Courtesy of Jessie Kornberg If you haven’t yet heard of the public interest law firm Bet Tzedek — the time has come. On December 1, Los Angeles attorney Jessie Kornberg was appointed as the organization’s next president and CEO. The San Francisco Bay Area native was chosen after a four-month search and will be the…
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The Yiddish Bard of Modernist Nigunim
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. On Saturday night December 14, 1929, the Forverts announced, Malke Locker was scheduled to give a performance of Yiddish, Hebrew, Italian and German folk songs—plus a few Hasidic nigunim. Born in 1887…
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The ‘Brotastic’ Naftali Bennett
via YouTube Naftali Bennett wants you to know he is a man. Really The Man. Naftali Bennett — leader of the nationalist HaBayit HaYehudi [Jewish Home] party and current Minister of the Economy — kicked off the Israeli election tradition of outlandish and attention grabbing ads this week with a two-minute video clip. In it…
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How Will I Teach My Future Son About Race in America?
Creative Commons When the ultrasound technician told us that we were expecting a boy, I was in complete shock. After two daughters, it had never occurred to me that I could have a son. I teased my sister-in-law that if the baby was a boy, I would send him to her house to be raised…
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One Bubbe’s Adventures in Online Dating
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman Some Grandmas play bridge, mahjong, or golf. I play eHarmony, JDate, and Match.com. In the past two years, I’ve corresponded with shrinks, rabbis, and a man who mentioned he has to be catheterized three times a day, but was very loving. It used to be women of a certain age, the…
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Female Rabbis Lead Pioneering Prayer Communities
Clockwise from top left, Rabbi Lori Shapiro of Open Temple, Rabbi Lizzie Heydemann of Mishkan Chicago, Rabbi Sharon Brous of Ikar, Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum of the Kavana Cooperative, Rabbi Noa Kushner of the Kitchen and Rabbi Naomi Levy of Nashuva. (Photos courtesy of the congregations) (JTA) — A decade ago in Los Angeles, two organizations…
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Is a Pink Sparkly Barbie Wrong for Hanukkah?
Bratz dolls. Courtesy: MGA Entertainment (Haaretz) — We modern parents do our best to empower our little girls. We assure our daughters that they are strong, smart, capable and can be anything they want to be – doctors, lawyers, athletes, scientists or world leaders. At the same time, we try to teach our boys to…
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Life, Love and the Proverbs of Judge Judy
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman When I was eight, my mother gave me a little yellow book of Jewish folk sayings: “If Grandma had Wheels.” A strange gift for a Black child, but that didn’t stop me from reading and reciting the wise and witty one-liners. I ate and slept with the tome. So at 35,…
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3 Women on Top (and How They Got There)
Women On Top from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. “It was a shock to come into a prominent leadership position in the Jewish community and realize that the Jewish community was behind all of those other systems,” remembers Ruth Messinger who was named to lead American Jewish World Service in 1998. I interviewed Messinger about…
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