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Can a Maxi Skirt Bridge Cultural Divide?
Mushky Notik (left) and Mimi Hecht (right) created Mimu Maxi Together, sisters-in-law Mimi Hecht and Mushky Notik run Mimu Maxi, a fashion label the creates clothes that are both modest and chic. The women, members of the Crown Heights Hasidic community, came up with idea for the company when struggling to find something stylish to…
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Free Frida Kahlo!
Often, when a member of a marginalized group achieves fame in an area in which her group lacks representation, she becomes an icon. This is nearly inevitable, and continues to happen today to women like Lena Dunham and Hillary Clinton. Being an icon definitely has its perks. People love you. They want more of you…
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Israel’s ‘Men’s Only’ Bomb Shelters
Getty Images // There was gender mixing in this shelter in Tel Aviv, unlike one in Ashdod. While people all around Israel have spent the past two weeks scrambling for cover during rocket attacks, it seems that in some places, only men’s lives are considered worth protecting. In the Ashdod rabbinate building, the bomb shelter…
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A Gaza Mother Amid the Airstrikes
Eman Mohammed with her daughters, Lateen and Talia As a photojournalist, stepping into war isn’t a dilemma for me. It is my instinct to grab my cameras and run out to document the man-made misery, the horrors of war, each and every time hoping humanity will get the lesson. But nothing prepared me to understand…
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Mom in the Bomb Shelter
Deborah Meghnagi Bailey and her family Here’s a scene from my life last week: It’s 9:30 pm. I’m lying on my bed, fully dressed, talking to my husband, who is ready for bed. We weren’t supposed to be here, tonight. We were supposed to be in the Galilee, in a beautiful cabin with its own…
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How Facebook ‘Like’ Came Between Dad and Me
Avital Norman Nathman and her son on a recent trip to Israel I am my father’s daughter. That means I am incredibly passionate, equally stubborn and some might even say hot-headed. You can just imagine how my teen years went as I came into my own — lots of slammed doors, shouted ultimatums, and threats…
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Right on Hobby Lobby
Getty Images It fascinated me, when the Hobby Lobby decision came down, to see Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito debating the potential ramifications of the case via their dissent and decision, respectively. Alito declared his surety that allowing companies to exercise religious domination (essentially) over their employees would not lead to all kinds of…
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5 Reasons ‘Seinfeld’s Elaine is Feminist Icon
This week marks the 25th anniversary of Seinfeld, the mostly loved but sometimes reviled sitcom about nothing. In honor of this milestone, the Sisterhood would like to pay our dues to the character of Elaine Benes, whose spunk and guile was given shape by the most enduring cast member, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. Elaine was an unlikely…
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The Mikveh in My Backyard
The site of the Chesterfield synagogue I’m walking towards a wooded lot almost hidden by what passes for a busy intersection in rural eastern Connecticut. The road has no shoulder, so I try to stay as close as possible to the curb. This is not a place designed for pedestrians, and I wonder what passing…
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When Lucy Aharish Couldn’t Take It Anymore
Lucy Aharish // photo by Tali Shani for Haaretz (Haaretz) — Lucy Aharish, the Arab-Israeli television host, woke up. Her awakening came a bit late and was not exactly aimed at the right target, but that’s not the important thing. The important thing is that on Monday, the news anchor awoke from a long coma. The…
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There’s a Shark in the Mikveh
Perplexed souls seeking enlightenment about what to expect when taking a dip in the mikveh have generally found a limited variety on the shelves of Judaica stores and libraries: On the one hand, there are a myriad of volumes devoted to the halachic intricacies of family purity, and then there are the numerous works extolling…
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