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Rebecca Solnit Has Trump’s Number
In a stunning recent essay on Lit Hub, “The Loneliness Of Donald Trump,” Rebecca Solnit explains why Trump’s privilege — from birth, but also his adulthood spent shielded from criticism — may be his downfall: I have often run across men (and rarely, but not never, women) who have become so powerful in their lives…
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In Alyson Gerber’s ‘Braced,’ Heroine Confronts Scoliosis
As a young Jewish girl growing up in Andover, Massachusetts, Alyson Gerber wore a brace, like her mother, a nurse who also had an abnormal curvature of the spine. Gerber’s father was a doctor at the local hospital. Yet her parents’ medical professions didn’t save her from pain or embarrassment. Gerber’s debut novel, Braced, is…
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Jewish Women Prominent Among Female Sexuality Pioneers
I think I owe it to Sisterhood readers to click on, and link to, a post with the title, “These Jewish Women Think You Should Masturbate.” It’s not every day I see such a headline, but today just happens to be — as I learned from Bella Book’s JWA post — the final day of…
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Orthodox Princeton Student Plans To Get Married — And The World Gasps
In a country with actual child marriage, it might seem as if a 23-year-old wearing an engagement ring would not cause any sort of controversy. And yet I can’t say I was all that surprised by Penina Krieger’s account of the negative, judgmental response she’s received, from people who think she’s basically a child bride….
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What’s A Breastfeeding Mom To Wear To Synagogue?
Last fall, Project Runway’s Tim Gunn took fashion designers to task for not designing clothes with non-model American women in mind. Gunn focused on unrepresentative sizing, but as I try to decide what to wear to my third daughter’s baby naming ceremony (or to synagogue on Saturday mornings, for that matter) I’d expand Gunn’s critique…
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‘The Women’s Balcony’ Explores Tensions Among Observant Jews In Jerusalem
Details of conflicts between Israel and its neighbors in the Middle East have filled the news, of course, for many grief-filled years. Less prominently discussed outside of Israel are conflicts between communities of Jews in Israel — for example, over methods of and approaches to religious observance. Emil Ben-Shimon’s dramatic comedy “The Women’s Balcony” explores…
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Ivanka’s Memorial Day Pitch: Let Them Eat Champagne Popsicles
Ivanka Trump — technically, Ivanka Trump the brand — has entered into Marie Antoinette territory yet again. A tweet from the Ivanka Trump HQ account reads “Make champagne popsicles this #MemorialDay.” The tweet leads to an Ivanka lifestyle page post, which links to a Good Housekeeping post which posits Champagne popsicles as a concept, which,…
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Is Moon Juice Kosher?
Stop what you’re doing and head straight for brilliant Jewish writer Molly Young’s New York Times Magazine story on wellness entrepreneur and “lifestyle guru” Amanda Chantal Bacon, the woman behind the Moon Juice brand of purportedly lifestyle-enhancing juices, “dusts” (“jarred herb powders” that are “marketed as a beauty supplement”), and more. Come for the writing…
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Manchester Brings Back Memories For Survivor Of Tel Aviv Terror Attack
The New York Times ran a powerful op-ed by Tanya Weiz, about her experiences being injured during a terrorist attack at a Tel Aviv disco in 2001. Her story offers a sense of what many are now experiencing in Manchester. Weiz was 17 at the time. While she survived the attack, a friend she’d gone…
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‘Transparent’ Creator Jill Soloway Comes Out As Trans And Genderqueer
In a Guardian profile of “Transparent” creator and “I Love Dick” series co-creator Jill Soloway, Hadley Freeman writes that Soloway “now identifies as a gender non-conforming queer person, who prefers to be referenced with gender-neutral pronouns (they/them/their).” The article accompanying Soloway’s (fascinating) recent Fresh Air interview states that Soloway “identifies as genderqueer”; in interviews, Soloway…
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The Eternal — And Exhausting — Cult Of Effortlessness
Jessica Schiffer reports on a corner of the internet I know better than I’d like to admit: French-girl-chic e-commerce. While I don’t actually buy these clothes, I’m keenly aware of their existence, and of the cool Instagram pages of the cool French women behind some of them. (Did I realize one of them, Alexia Elkaim,…
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