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The Problem Is ‘Wellness,’ Not Gwyneth Paltrow’s Privilege-Awareness, Part II
So Gwyneth Paltrow hosted a silly-sounding, outrageously-priced, somewhat disorganized-sounding health event. So what?, you might ask. The stakes are the highly profitable wellness industry, of which this event was a high-profile part. Most obviously, where there is “wellness,” all too often, there is pseudoscience. In the New York Post, Maureen Callahan describes what happened when…
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Wellness Expo: Oblivious By Intent, Part I
Of the “hundreds” who attended In Goop Health, a day-long Los Angeles event, there were – as Becky Scott points out – a not-insignificant number of lifestyle reporters. So much has been written about the event that it can feel like the attendees were all there to cover the event, until you take into account…
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Children’s Book ‘Almost A Minyan’ Gets It Almost Right
In Jewish ritual life, not everyone is a leader, but everyone has a role. Traditionally, that role has been circumscribed for women, but a growing number of children’s picture books have sought to expand its norms, depicting women as rabbis, cantors, and other figures of authority. From Mindy Avra Portnoy and Steffi Karen Rubin’s “Ima…
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Some LGBT Jews Support Israel. Their Existence Isn’t ‘Pinkwashing.’
At Bustle, Hannah Simpson writes about her experiences as a Jewish Queer Youth marcher at New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade. Simpson, who is transgender, describes what happened when, as she puts it, “Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) ambushed and blocked our members under the guise of civil disobedience and protest.” Simpson explains that when JVP…
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The Secret Jewish History Of ‘Absolutely Fabulous’
Before “Broad City,” before “Sex And The City,” a debauched, joyous, complicated, and above all hilarious female friendship made it onscreen. I more or less grew up with “Absolutely Fabulous,” identifying generationally with staid daughter Saffy, but on a deeper level with mom (and protagonist) Edina. Edina Monsoon (played by creator and writer Jennifer Saunders)…
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How Much Should Ivanka Share About Her Kids Online?
(JTA) — By now, some of you may know a bunch of random but adorable facts about 5-year-old Arabella Kushner, the granddaughter of President Donald Trump. For instance, she likes Israel more than she likes ants, she loves fidget spinners and she wants to be a Marine when she grows up. We know all this…
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Teen Girls Are Having A Moment. Is That Good For Them? For Feminism?
For a while now, there’s been a spate of think-pieces about the underestimated teenage girl. This came up when Teen Vogue became a strong (albeit adult-run) voice of opposition to the Trump administration. The teen girl (or, as with the Fearless Girl statue or Chelsea Clinton’s new children’s book, the young girl) has become a…
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The Gal Gadot Representation Conversation We’ve Been Missing
As an Ashkenazi Jewish journalist from New York, I haven’t lacked representation in American media. But I’ve never identified as much with any of Hollywood’s portrayals of Jewish women quite the way I felt a strong sense of kinship with Gal Gadot’s “Wonder Woman.” Whatever you think about the film, the discussion about representation, and…
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NASA Shirt Sexism: A Social Media Controversy, Deconstructed
It started like this: Arizona State University professor named Katie Hinde tweeted the following: “Did I just take a bunch of NASA tank tops from the boys section & put them in the girls section? Yes. Yes I did.” She included photographic evidence of the same, at what was probably a Target. The idea being,…
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Ivanka, Can You Really Be ‘Blindsided’ By Fightback Against Trump?
As has probably been clear for some time now, I make no claims of being able to know what’s going on in Ivanka Trump’s mind. (Or anyone’s, for that matter, but this is an Ivanka post.) So I ask the following questions, knowing, full well, their unanswerability: Did she actually think, at any point along…
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Why Bipartisan Ivanka Fandom Isn’t Imminent
By the time images captioned captioned “Why I disagree with my dad,” I had a sense a meme was under way, but that I’d missed the reference. As I learned moments later, the inspiration was US Weekly’s new Ivanka Trump cover story, whose headline is, sure enough, “Why I Disagree With My Dad.” A teaser…
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