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Between Baalat Teshuva and Britney Spears
When I was an 18-year-old yeshiva high school graduate from Brooklyn, one of the biggest questions on the minds of my female friends and me — right after, who will get engaged next? — was, who is going to “frum out” in Israel? You know, it’s what happens during that post-high school yeshiva experience in…
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Books Books Aren’t Born: Writing and Gestating Just Aren’t Comparable
My son, Shai, was born on January 21, 2007 and two days later, in time for our arrival home from the hospital, a heavy cardboard box arrived in the mail. University of Nebraska Press had sent me 20 copies of my first book, “Houses Of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books,” which I had been…
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With a Stay-at-Home Husband, Who Does the Chores?
Dear Bintel Brief: My husband is taking a few months off from work to write fiction. He’s always felt like writing was his calling, but until now has not had the opportunity to devote more than a few hours a week to writing. On most weekdays, while I’m at the office, he’s at home writing….
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Dylan: Surfing Post-Irony or Has He Just Lost It?
For decades people have fought to claim Bob Dylan’s legacy as their own. Jews, Christians and old african-american Blues Men. Actually only in Dylan’s own mind have the latter actually joined the fray, but his contribution to American culture has been so incisive that many people have identified and so varied that it has been…
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Orthodox Rabbi to Michael Oren: Arrest of Woman in Tallit ‘Offensive and Dangerous’
Following the recent arrest at the Western Wall of a woman wearing a Jewish prayer shawl, or tallit, a prominent American Modern Orthodox rabbi has requested that Israel’s U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren meet with “a rabbinic delegation of American Orthodox rabbis who strongly support the right of women to wear a tallit and tzitzit.†In…
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In Defense of the Ponytail-Puller
Elizabeth Lambert, the 20-year-old former University of New Mexico soccer player on scholarship, gave her first interview this week since the incident earlier this month when she pulled an opponent to the ground by her ponytail, and was permanently suspended from her team. The New York Times reported that Lambert “watched the video a handful…
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Forward Editor: As a Mom, I’m More Conservative Than Sarah Palin
Maureen Dowd’s recent musings on whether she and Sarah Palin had anything in common — “She hunted moose, and I hunted for Bullwinkle on TV” — made me wonder whether the former Alaska governor and I might share any similar life experiences. It’s true that I epitomize the feminist, liberal, urban, careerist, quinoa-eating media elite…
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Eat Meat from ‘Kike on a Bike’
Laughing in the face of both contemporary social networking and traditional food-scrutinizing mores, the San Francisco-based Israeli street-food vendor who calls himself Kike on a Bike has neither twitter nor hecksher. But you should check out his harissa. Or at least so suggests the food blog at SFWeekly.com. When approached by their intrepid tweeting blogger…
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Is ‘Imposter Syndrome’ Really a Women’s Issue?
Have you ever acted confident when deep down you felt unqualified or incompetent — in short, like an imposter? Have you ever felt that someday you would be discovered as a fraud? A blogger for Psychology Today linked this “imposter syndrome” to women, asking “why do so many successful women feel they are frauds?” It’s…
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Jeopardy Does Jews’ Clues in the Holy Land
I’ll take Israel for $2,000, Alex. That’s what contestants on “Jeopardy!” were saying November 23, when the famous quiz show included a Double Jeopardy category titled “A Journey Through Israel.” Host Alex Trebek and his team, the Clue Crew, traveled to the Holy Land in early September, the show’s first time there, to tape the…
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Israelis Give Abbas a Chance
It’s the million shekel question in the Middle East at the moment — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will quit politics, but is he serious or bluffing? A 60% majority of Israel’s Jewish public thinks the declaration came from tactical considerations while only 24% believe in its sincerity, according to the latest War and…
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