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It’s Time for a #Balebuste Revolution
When I am asked to write a bio of myself and my very short career as a writer, I am always tempted to add “balebuste” next to “writer” and “mother.” But instead of using a word that connotes housewife, I settle for “baker,” because, let’s face it, bakers can be learned and cultured, whereas balebustes…
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#FreetheNipple for the Win
Thinkstock Ladies and gentleman, the nipples have been freed. A few weeks ago Facebook quietly changed its policy on allowing pictures of breastfeeding moms. A Facebook representative told CNET: “We have always allowed breast-feeding photos — it is natural and beautiful and we know that it’s important for mothers to share their experiences with others…
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Daughters of Russ and Daughters
The new documentary “The Sturgeon Queens” explores the history and legacy of Russ and Daughters, the Lower East Side’s famed purveyor of smoked fish which has been appetizing its way into our mouths and hearts for one-hundred years now. The Sisterhood’s Elissa Strauss spoke with writer and producer Julie Cohen about why she decided to…
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A Son for Ayelet’s Parents
Akiva Galena (JTA) — In January 2012, Hindy Poupko and Seth Galena shared the tragic news with tens of thousands of readers that they had lost their 2-year-old daughter, Ayelet Galena, to a rare bone disease. For months, the couple had chronicled their daughter’s struggle with the disease on a Tumblr blog, amassing tens of…
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To The Father Who Raised Us — My Husband
Frimet Goldberger’s children, Shloimy, age 9 and Rachel, age 7. While the daughters and sons of America are celebrating their fathers, I am spending my Father’s Day celebrating my husband, the man who raised us — our family — and stood by me through the tumultuous journey to help me build a new foundation from…
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Q&A With the Co-Creator of Feminist Phone Intervention
bell hooks Aggressive men in bars, get ready to have your minds opened by feminist texts. An anonymous radical activist pair has started a project called the “feminist phone intervention.” How it works? Essentially, it’s a hotline that’s also a fake number. If someone asks for a woman’s digits too aggressively, she can offer this…
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Frieda Wunderlich, Professor in Exile
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. Born in upscale Jewish Charlottenberg, Berlin, Frieda Wunderlich was a member of Germany’s Democratic Party and Berlin’s city council. A trained economist, Wunderlich received her doctorate from the University of…
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Why Mila Kunis Should Be Grateful for ‘Pregnant’ Dads
Getty Images // Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, actress Mila Kunis delivered a mock PSA announcement to future fathers of the world calling on them to quit using the phrase, “we’re pregnant.” “You’re not pregnant,“ she said. “Do you have to squeeze a watermelon-sized person out of your lady hole?…
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What ‘10 Things’ Taught Me About Secular World
Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ I would be remiss if I let 2014 whoosh by without pausing to commemorate the 15th anniversaries of three of the most seminal coming-of-age stories of our time. I’m referring, of course, to “She’s All That,” “10 Things I Hate About You,” and…
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Why Women Are the New Gatekeepers of Modesty
Getty Images // Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel Who are the gatekeepers of the conservative religious ideal of tznius, or modesty? This question has been argued and parsed on social media and on blogs in recent years as radicalism in the ultra-Orthodox communities has taken on new and more visible forms. A common misperception is that…
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A Kiss in the Anne Frank House
Hazel and Gus, played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, share an embrace in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’. Is the Anne Frank House a scene of one girl’s hopeful coming-of-age in the face of evil, or is it a memorial to the genocidal murder of children? Is thinking about Anne’s life in the last…
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