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On Jewish Women and Facial Hair
Thinkstock The first time I thought about facial hair was in high school, when a boy, whom I considered a friend, informed me that I had more hair on my upper lip than he did. I didn’t do anything about it then — it had been enough of a fight with my mother to let…
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Fashion For a Cause in Tel Aviv
Courtesy of Reuth // A model at the Tel Aviv show (JTA) — Israel is known for many things — startups, falafel, an often intractable territorial conflict — but fashion has never been one of them. A T-shirt, jeans and sandals is considered proper attire both at the workplace and at weddings. Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Why Santa Barbara Rampage Is Terror Against Women
University of California students at a vigil for the shooting victims. Getty Images I spent the holiday weekend at my alma mater in Vermont at a writer’s retreat. On our last night in town we were reminded to walk home in numbers, especially if we were women. Independent in my comings and goings, you’d think…
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Avoid Bad Rabbi? There’s an App for That
An Israeli couple at their wedding (Haaretz) — When Israelis want to be warned of traffic jams ahead they check Waze, the popular crowd-sourced GPS. When they are planning their vacation, they look at hotel ratings and reviews on Tripadvisor to make sure their trip is smooth. So why shouldn’t they have the benefit of…
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‘Preeminent’ Jerusalem Educator Deborah Kallen
Forward Association Deborah “Devora” Kallen was Jerusalem’s preeminent progressive educator. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts with seven siblings (including her brother, philosopher Horace Kallen) Kallen chose to reside in Palestine in 1920 with the goal of establishing the Parents Educational Association School there. Arriving at the onset of Third Aliyah wave…
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Where Do Trigger Warnings Belong?
Thinkstock Trigger warnings in academia, the idea that professors should flag, in advance, potentially traumatizing content for students, are a subject of hot debate this week after a series of articles on the topic showed up big venues. Content that might provoke a trigger warning include rape, violence, and historical atrocities like lynchings, slavery, even…
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New York Tabloids Shame Mayor’s Wife
Getty Images Earlier this week the New York Post ran a cover featuring Chirlane McCray, the First Lady of New York City next to the banner headline: “I WAS A BAD MOM.” I am so glad they did this. The Post article was a summary of the profile of McCray by Lisa Miller in New…
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The Perils of Working Out While Hasidic
Thinkstock One Sunday morning a few weeks ago, after we had returned from our Passover getaway in Orlando, we had a family weigh-in in the master bedroom of our rented ranch. After all the matzos and steak and gooey potato starch and almond meal based cookies we consumed, the digital scale was guaranteed to be…
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Get Out of Our Beds, Shmuley Boteach!
(Haaretz) — As everyone in show biz knows, if you want attention, you’ve got to have a gimmick, and more than a decade ago, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach came up with a great one. In 1999, Boteach published Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy. It wasn’t the first time sex advice was offered from…
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There’s No Such Thing as ‘Acting Like a Man’
Getty Images Much of the conversation surrounding the dismissal of Jill Abramson from her post as editor of the New York Times is about how she was punished for “acting like a man.” We really need to stop saying that. “They are paid less, given fewer promotions and it’s held against them when they act…
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Shmuley Boteach: Women’s Sensuality Guru
Women, have your husbands snuffed out your libidos? Do you feel like you no longer need to pursue beauty, wit, insight, creativity and personal sensuality because your lazy-ass husband flips through the TV stations and stumbles into bed after his nightly dose of porn and afternoon office sex with his mistress? Do you feel that…
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