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What’s Happening in Texas
Right now in Texas, women are getting turned away from abortion clinics thanks the set of targeted regulations aimed at abortion providers once filibustered by Wendy Davis (pictured below), eventually upheld by a conservative appeals court. The scene on the ground is not a pleasant, or a fair one. The Austin Chronicle reported “tears” and…
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Israel Women Want to Talk Peace, Too
Israeli women want in on the peace process, and they think they can help. As Haaretz’s Eetta Prince-Gibson reports, Israeli feminists recently got together to demand that the government include women on all decision and policy-making bodies, including those in charge of negotiating peace. This would be part of their action plan to implement a…
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Men Really Want It All
Citi and LinkedIn recently published the results from their third Today’s Professional Woman Report, a national survey exploring women’s thoughts on their careers and work-life balance. For this round, they decided to pose their questions to men, too. They asked each gender to define what “having it all” means to them. The vast majority of…
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Throwback Thursday: Science Sister
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Click below for more. Professor Anna Weizmann is pictured here in her organic chemistry lab in 1938. The younger sister of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, Anna was one of three female…
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Pregnant Women Unite!
Why women still struggle to manage careers and families has been a hot topic for a few years now. It’s an important conversation, one that has helped us define the problem and even stumble upon a few solutions, but sometimes it feels like there has been whole lot a talk with little emphasis on action….
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Recalling Chana Mlotek, Mother of Yiddish Music
Before there were blogs and Wikipedia, there were archivists like Chana Mlotek, an expert in Yiddish ethnomusicology, whose memory was a trove of cultivated knowledge spanning fields of literature and history. Mlotek is pictured here (back row, third from right) in the 1960s in the Bronx, with a Yiddish-speaking mother’s group that was affiliated with…
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Gender Gap in Israel, U.S. Grows
The World Economic Forum recently published their annual Global Gender Gap report causing many of us to wonder, once again, why the heck we don’t move to Northern Europe or Scandanavia where the maternity leave flows like water and affordable childcare is as easy to find as a Starbucks. For this report, researchers look at…
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Lisa Kudrow Loves Her Nose Job
As far as my teenage self was concerned, one was either a “Friends” fan or a “Seinfeld” fan and I counted myself as a strict devotee of Jerry and Co. That said, if I ever did watch “Friends” it was always because of Lisa Kudrow’s character Phoebe, whose village idiot shtick served as the perfect…
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The Real Glitch in Obamacare
The media is in an absolute tizzy over the website glitches in Obamacare. In fact, I keep getting breaking news emails with updates on the State of the Glitches (this isn’t an exaggeration). I admit: the Obama administration clearly messed up, big time, in their tech firm oversight. And it’s an undeniable concern that all…
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Chill Out With Halloween, the ‘Secular Purim’
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but maybe it’s time to chill out with Halloween, or the “secular Purim” as we Jews call it. Personally, I love all festivities that involve dressing up and getting creative and weird, but I’ve been disturbed of late that the costume trend has gotten both more and more frighteningly…
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Throwback Thursday: The Wind Beneath His Wings
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Click below for more. Edith Bowie Hawks was the wind beneath her husband’s wings. Captain Frank Hawks was a famed aviator in the 1920s and ’30s. (A common phrase at the time…
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