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Mila Kunis Is Good for the Jews
In the slightly dysfunctional, overly simplistic, but ever-popular game of categorizing Jewish national figures as good or bad for the tribe, putting Mila Kunis in the good for the Jews category is pretty much a no-brainer for me. She’s beautiful, talented, smart, outspoken, and even bilingual. It is little surprise that Esquire has crowned her…
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Grandparent Wannabees and Daughters’ Fertility
I am not a grandmother — yet! But my friends who are blessed with grandchildren tell me that grandparenthood is equal parts pure love and complete wonder. Some even tell me they wish they could have skipped parenting and gone straight to grandparenting. I can’t wait. Or maybe I can. According to an article published…
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In Defense of Michelle Obama’s Arms
Joyce Burnick has a problem with Michelle Obama. It’s her arms. As she recently put it in the New York Times style section: “The first lady has made it unacceptable for women to appear in public with covered arms… Not all women are blessed with the first lady’s workout discipline or genetic gifts. That is…
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Is God Male?
Before Rosh Hashanah began, I did some interrogation of myself. Not the sort you’d expect; it wasn’t an intake of my spiritual behavior or of my wrong doings. It went something like this: Chanel 1: I do not want to go to shul this year. Do I have to? I cannot deal with the gendered…
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#SorryFeminists Shows Feminism’s Lighter Side — But It’s Serious Too
The high-profile internet blowup du jour began with an ill-considered tweet from new T Magazine editor Deborah Needleman, advertising an appearance by known professional thorn-in-the-side of feminists Katie Roiphe. “Sorry Feminists,” Needleman tweeted in parentheticals, “this woman is sexy”. The implication of her statement being that feminists can’t abide a sexy woman, or a sexy…
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Most Women Lie About Shopping
The number one point of conflict in most marriages is money, so much so that six out of 10 people who get divorced and enter a new relationship choose not to combine finances the second time around. And a new study by a leading coupon code Web site reveals what might be a contributing factor…
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Women ARE Funny. I’m Proof.
The best class I took in my last quarter of college didn’t have tests or quizzes. The teacher made us laugh. Our homework was (literally!) fun. And the final exam was an oral presentation… in the back of a bar. Bad grades? Not an issue. Bad jokes? Now that was something to stress over. I…
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PostModernProblems
This past summer, Anne-Marie Slaughter shook up the national feminist conversation with her provocative Atlantic piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Writing about the challenges she faces balancing her role as a mother and a professional, she argued that systemic changes must be made in both the workplace and society for women to…
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The W-Word
I’m going to be honest here, I watch the Presidential Debates for pure amusement. And as Erin Gloria Ryan said over at Jezebel, last night’s debate may go down in history as the most boring 90 minutes ever aired on national television. This may be true but it wasn’t a complete waste of time. I…
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My Surrogate Jewish Grandmas
You know those heartwarming chick flicks where women with seemingly little in common are forced together by circumstance, bond over something like quilting, beekeeping, small-town politics or a Jane Austen novel, and end up teaching each other a thing or two about life? That actually happened to me, but it didn’t take place in a…
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The Case for Premarital Sex
Feminist blogger and writer Jill Filipovic has written an important and overdue piece at The Guardian. She says the framework of delaying sex until marriage as somehow virtuous is screwing up American society. She argues that in fact, it may be more moral to open the discussion to include and even encourage premarital sex, which…
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