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Sari Botton Still Loves New York
Twitter “Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York,” is the exciting new follow-up anthology from Sari Botton. The 49-year-old Long Island NY native secured mega-talented writers including, Adelle Waldman, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Elliott, Adam Sternbergh, Amy Sohn, and others. In addition to editing, Botton also contributed an essay depicting her…
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Joan Rivers and the Brutal Honesty of My Jewish Grandma
Lior Zaltzman Illustration Generally, the passing of celebrities affects me none. My Facebook feed fills up with heartfelt tributes, links to a flood of articles recounting their career and quotes from that particular celebrity’s most famous films, songs or shows. I casually glance, maybe even click, but I never really get absorbed, let alone shed…
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Sorry Bnei Akiva, You Can’t ‘Dance at Two Weddings’
I never belonged to a youth group. I never attended Bnei Akiva on Shabbat afternoons. This probably makes me a bit of an anomaly as someone who grew up in a religious community, but I was always sort of an outsider, and that’s fine. So the YouTube video publicized in Haaretz’s recent article of a…
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Keeping Orthodox Girls Dancing in Dark
(Haaretz) — It’s like homecoming weekend for Orthodox Jewish kids in Israel, minus the football game. The young members of the religious youth movement/scouting movement Bnei Akiva spend a full month preparing for what can only be described combination of a pep rally and a color war, culminating in a big ceremonial performance. It is…
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Redacted Bible Stories: Yael
“Giaele e Sisara” by Artemisia Gentileschi via wikicommons Yael: who’s there? Sisera: it’s me!!! Sisera!!! help!!! Yael: u woke me up Sisera: it’s…the middle of the day Yael: wtvr. What’re u doing here in the middle of the day Sisera: Barak’s chasing me — he’s trying to kill me! Yael: well, you did just lose…
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Threats and backlash for ultra-Orthodox women seeking political voice
Racheli Ibenboim, of the Gur Hasidic sect, who was nominated for Jerusalem city council but dropped out after facing threats and intimidation (Haaretz) — The backlash against ultra-Orthodox women who are daring to demand a public voice in government didn’t come as a big surprise, but it did come swiftly and harshly. Last week a…
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Anne Frank? There’s An App for That
Anne Frank, age twelve, Courtesy of the Holocaust Museum A Dutch publisher released a new smartphone application containing “The Diary of Anne Frank” in its original language. Besides the published diary, the app has unedited versions of diary entries and writings written by Anne, and an audio-book version read by Carice van Houten, who plays…
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Answering the Plea for Help
Courtesy of Sara Back Sara Back is waiting for her deployment order. Sometime in December, the 52-year-old New York nurse-practitioner will board a plane to West Africa — to either Liberia or Sierra Leone, wherever she’s needed more — and join one of the emergency units treating Ebola patients. It’s a risky mission and Back…
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‘Taking Back The Party’ at the University of Virginia
Protestors outside Phi Kappa Psi. Photograph by Bob Mical/Creative Commons On Saturday night, I stood on Rugby Road — University of Virginia’s now-infamous fraternity row — shoulder to shoulder with fellow English graduate students and faculty in full regalia. Some of us repainted the side of Beta Bridge — a frequently-used canvass for everything from…
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Never Mind The G-Men
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Only one day after publishing a front page article relaying FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s demand that all “patriotic” Americans help their government reveal so-called dangerous activities of local communist sympathizers, the…
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Helena Rubenstein, Me and the Beauty Paradox
Helena Rubinstein by Paul César Helleu, image via wikicommons Beauty is power and Madame Helena Rubinstein knew just what she was dispensing. Like all enchantments, beauty stirs up passions, its secrets can emancipate or enslave. Like power, beauty can be corrupting or creative; in the hands of an alchemist like Madame, it might even be…
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