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‘Whip My Hair Back and Forth’ Fun
Tired of Glee’s girls gone wild? and the near-pornographic playthings that pass for pastimes for girls these days? Then check out this new video by Willow Smith, daughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. It’s a hella lotta fun. The words don’t go much beyond “I whip my hair back and forth, I…
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Homophobia: An Insidious Outgrowth of Misogyny
Let’s be honest: It’s not like I was going to vote for Carl Paladino in the first place. If there were some kind of reverse political dictionary, and I was in it, Carl Paladino would be listed as my particularly aggressive antonym. That was before he decided to publicly demonstrate his homophobia, while bringing the…
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At Yeshiva, Shielded From ‘I Am Woman’
I have a terribly embarrassing confession to make. This week I discovered Helen Reddy, and heard for the first time “I Am Woman.” Really, I had never heard of her until a friend sent me a link to her 1975 rendition of this amazing song. Truly, never heard her name. I can’t believe it myself….
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Prime Ribs: All About Hair; More $#*! Your Moms Say
The first Torah scroll written entirely by female scribes, six of them, has been completed — seven years after it was begun. Danielle Berrin, over at The Jewish Journal’s “Hollywood Jew” blog, thinks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and “The Social Network” writer Aaron Sorkin are hanging out with the wrong Jewish women. Many women of…
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Jewish Girls of ‘Glee’ Gone Wild?
Earlier this week, Diana Agron and Lea Michele of “Glee” were on the cover of GQ with co-star Cory Monteith in what can only be described as a hypersexualized spread. Diana Agron plays popular cheerleader Quinn Fabray. Lea Michele plays the know-it-all Jewish girl Rachel Berry. Both actresses are Jewish. The high school themed photoshoot,…
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Girls Playing Sports: Crucibles for Conflicting Messages
Soccer season is in full swing, which means that on weekends Girlchik is out on the field, passing and handling the ball with impressive facility while I cheer her on from the sidelines, chat with other parents and enjoy the cool fall breezes. It’s an interesting thing, cheering on girls this age to get in…
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Why I Believe Anita Hill — Now More Than Ever
Like Hinda Mandell, I experienced the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings at a formative moment of my childhood. The entire spectacle of the trial made a really strong impression on me and the ensuing “Year of the Woman” helped turn me into a budding self-identified feminist — walking around my Jewish day school with Barbara Boxer…
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End Israel’s Private Tribunals for Sex Abuse Cases
Graphic sexual details from the complaints against Rabbi Mordechai “Motti” Elon were published this week in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot. The accounts were based on previously unreleased documentation from meetings of the religious Zionist forum Takana, a task force charged with confronting sexual violence in the religious community. Takana decided to release the documents…
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For Women of the Wall, a New Coalition of Allies
The embattled Women of the Wall prayer group has a new coalition of allies, in the form of a group called Rabbis for Women of the Wall. Women of the Wall is a group of Israeli and other Jewish women (many originally from North America) who have long fought for the right to pray as…
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Housecleaning Is a Dirty Business For Israel’s Political Wives
Good help is hard to find, especially if you are the wife of a top-tier Israeli politician. First it was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, who has had serial crises with various disgruntled former nannies and housekeepers. First, with two nannies back in 1996 and then a housekeeper last year she was vilified and…
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In Latest Chapter of Clarence Thomas Scandal, It’s She Said-She Said
Apparently there’s no statute of limitation on scandals. Nineteen years after Anita Hill testified before the U.S. Senate that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, the Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s wife wants Hill to apologize. As has been widely reported, Ginni Thomas left a voicemail at Hill’s Brandeis University office: I just wanted to reach across…
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