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My Most Important Friendships
Thinkstock Female friendships are difficult to understand. The bonds that women forge — the really close friendships — are almost invincible. Although I hesitate at stereotyping female friendships, I nevertheless believe some of the stereotypes to be true. Maybe it’s because I have recently realized that my daughter is treating her friendships differently than my…
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I’ll Miss Barbie When She Goes
Getty Images It’s probably a good thing that Barbie’s days are numbered, as Elissa Strauss noted. But would you believe me if I said I was a little nostalgic, a little wistful? Rarely do you encounter a self-identified, fairly radical feminist who also hand-wrings over the demise of doll-playing, but as I’ve noted before I’m…
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Has Gwyneth Paltrow Found Better Path to Splitsville?
I’m of two minds about Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s announcement that they are going through a “conscious uncoupling.” Part of me cringes over the fact that Paltrow felt the need to process something as intimate as her separation in the life-perfecting GOOP mill. What she gave us is a sanitized, sunny, and even chic…
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6 Gloria Steinem Quotes as She Turns 80
Gloria Steinem, feminism’s most badass (and stylish) lady, turns 80 today. Mazel tov! To celebrate the founder of Ms. Magazine, here are 6 of her most inspiring quotes. “Women are always saying,’We can do anything that men can do.’ But men should be saying, ‘We can do anything that women can do.’ “Women have two…
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Sara Netanyahu, Israel’s Marie Antoinette
Haaretz Illustration (Haaretz) — Oh, Sara, Sara, Sara. First there was your nanny way way back in 1996 – a young South African girl named Tanya Shaw, who told the press that you were a nutty clean freak, a screaming shrew and accused you of firing her on the spot for committing the sin of burning…
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Why Hobby Lobby Supreme Case Matters
Getty Images // A protest against Hobby Lobby’s contraceptive policy Today the Supreme Court will hear the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cases arguing that religiously-inclined private employers should be able to exempt themselves from the ACA’s contraception mandate. When I initially wrote that Jews, as a religious minority in the country, should be alarmed…
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Teaching Women How to Tie Tzitzit
A few things about tzitzit: First, even when there’s a map of what to do in front of you, tying it looks like a completely nonsensical project if you’ve never done it before. Second, it’s difficult to get people to talk to you while they’re doing it. Finally, there’s nothing precisely like the experience of…
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Single Mother and Rabbi
Courtesy of Diva Communications// Rabbi Felicia Sol with her children The new film, “All of the Above,”, explores what happens when a single, Jewish clergy member wants to become a mother. The documentary, produced by Diva Communications, features interviews with Rabbi Lisa Gelber, an associate dean, at the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Rabbinical School, Rabbi Julie…
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Second Avenue Songbird Selma Kaye
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. In the early 1950s, Second Avenue Yiddish Theatre Manager Joseph Rumshinsky and Composer Edmund Zayenda were hell bent on finding their songbird, best able to represent their latest play “My Lucky Day.”…
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Menstrual Taboos
There is a heartbreaking story by journalist Rose George in Mosaic Science (h/t to Jezebel, who republished it) about menstrual taboos in Nepal and Bangladesh. Among families who observe chhaupadi, a tradition among some Hindus in the region which prohibits any contact with a menstruating woman, daughters and wives are sent to sleep in sheds…
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In Defense of Andi Dorfman, Jewish ‘Bachelorette’
ABC Andi Dorfman, the next star of ABC’s reality dating show “The Bachelorette,” is many things. She’s a prosecutor in Atlanta. She’s a fan favorite who took a guy to a date at a gun range. And she’s Jewish. “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette”’s casting process has roots in the Old Testament, with each series…
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