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So Many Ways To Segregate Women in Synagogue
The women’s section in Tel Aviv’s Heichal Yehuda Synagogue./Photo by Haaretz/Adva Naama Baram (Haaretz) — Where are you for the High Holidays? If “you” refers to Orthodox Jewish men, then you get to pray in the main sanctuary, which you will enter through the main entrance. Once inside the sanctuary, you will be full participants…
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An Artist Reclaims Jewish Sites in Kosovo
Elana Katz, a performance artist, at her performance commemorating Jewish Kosovo in September 2014. // Copyright Majlinda Hoxha JTA — Since 2011, American conceptual artist Elana Katz has been performing in Europe at sites once identified with Jewish communities, through a project called Spaced Memory. “The history of these places is unacknowledged, forgotten and in…
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How Yemenite Jewish Performer Enchanted New York City
Sarah Osnath Halevy // Copyright Forward Association Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. This magnetic image depicts a moment of ecstatic passion of the Yemenite Jewish multi-talented singer, actor, dancer and mime Sarah Osnath Halevy. Occasionally titled a…
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Joshua Venture Group Names All-Female Fellows
JTA — One gets Jewish teens and b’nai mitzvah students involved in community service work in urban Detroit. Another is working to improve online Jewish education options. And another is developing a unique curriculum based on women of the Bible. All of them are women. Joshua Venture Group (JVP), a nonprofit organization that has been…
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How Ultra-Orthodox Woman Found an Egalitarian Minyan
The author (left) and her son at the Museum of Natural History in New York // Courtesy of Frieda Vizel On Saturday, I was walking on Amsterdam Avenue in New York City, crossing over to the other side with my son Seth when a man with white stubble and a New Jersey accent stopped me…
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The Sad Lesson of Bar Rafaeli’s Pole-Dancing Ad
Bar Rafaeli in a commercial for Carolina Lemke / Copyright: Youtube In a recent commercial for an Israeli fashion eyewear company Carolina Lemke, Bar Rafaeli is featured bespectacled and pole-dancing in a dream sequence inside of a subway car, across from a leather-clad man who is checking her out. The Israeli model writhes her away…
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The Anti-Gezera Brigade on Rosh Hashana
Rachel Benaim Photo Sixty women sit in an ever-widening circle at B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue on the Upper West Side. We’ve come to explore a topic that has haunted me, particularly at this time of year, ever since I was a child. Rosh Hashanah is approaching and with it comes a reminder of our vulnerability to…
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Lisa Belkin, Queen of the Motherlode
Courtesy of Lisa Belkin Before Sheryl Sandberg there was Lisa Belkin. Working her way up at The New York Times, Belkin became every mother’s favorite mother in 2008 when she started the Times Motherlode blog. The blog touched a nerve as it focused on the elusive balancing act of work and parenting. Her most infamous…
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Throwback Thursday: Yiddish Novelist Takes On Stalin’s Terror
Copyright Forward Association Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Vera Hacken was the Odessa-born memoirist of a Czernowitz childhood, and an early novelist of the intricacies of life under the Soviet Union’s police state apparatus — but much…
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A Farewell to Parenting Columns
The author, center, with her children Anna and Adam, in 2014. // Photo courtesy of Judy Bolton-Fasman For eight years I’ve written a weekly parenting column for a local Jewish newspaper in Boston. My valedictory column will be published just before Rosh Hashana. When I accepted the job, I made it clear that I would…
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Dear Wendy Shalit: Adults Take Nude Selfies, Too!
Jennifer Lawrence at the Paris Fashion Week, July 2014 // Copyright Getty Images There’s nothing like reading a column by a self-proclaimed conservative who equates prudishness with modesty to realize you’re not a prude after all. I am talking about Wendy Shalit’s post on Time.com in which she opines about the Jennifer Lawrence hacked-nude-selfie fiasco,…
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