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Dianne Feinstein’s Jewish Journey From Catholic School To The Senate
In Mother Jones, Gail Sheehy profiles Dianne Feinstein, senior Senator from California (and 2015 Forward 50 honoree). Sheehy offers a sweeping portrait of “the lioness of the Senate”, including stands she has taken on everything from torture to reproductive rights. Feinstein had an unusual — and, in some ways, quite difficult — Jewish San Francisco…
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Latest Fox News Lawsuit: Reporter Demoted After Endometriosis Essay
I realize National Infertility Awareness Week was last week, but frankly the story at hand is at least as appropriate for May 1st, as it’s a labor issue, and a heck of a labor issue at that: At The Cut, Gabriel Sherman reports on yet another Fox News lawsuit, and it’s a doozy: Fox News…
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Is Ethical, Democratized Fashion Possible?
It can sometimes seem, to the cynical, that “ethical fashion” is merely a way for those who can afford to spend $600 on a dress to feel not just chic but noble (as in ethical, not as in aristocratic, although maybe that as well) for their purchase. And yet even those skeptical of brands’ promises…
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Maureen Chiquet: French Elegance From An American Jewish Woman
For Maureen Chiquet the day she came into high school and found the words “dirty Jew” scrawled on her locker changed everything. Chiquet rose from an internship at L’Oreal to Worldwide CEO of Chanel. She is also the author of “Beyond the Label,” a book that chronicles her rise up the corporate ladder. She grew…
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Q&A With Jewish Founder Of ‘Pregnantish’
For the last six years, dating and relationship expert Andrea Syrtash has been undergoing fertility treatment to try to have a baby with her husband. But the author (of “He’s Just Not Your Type and That’s a Good Thing” and “Cheat on Your Husband (with Your Husband”) hadn’t come public about her efforts until recently,…
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Mixing Modesty And Modernity With The Pantskirt (Skirtpant?)
In a personal essay for Racked, Shoshana Kordova, from New Jersey but now living in Israel, explains why she and her daughters have embraced a layered look. “The leggings and pants my daughters and I wear under our skirts,” she writes, “mean we don’t have to choose between skirts and pants, between religious conventions and…
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Male Journalist Finds Profiling Actresses A Bore. Oh.
In 2013, Carly Lewis wrote a great piece for the Walrus about the phenomenon of certain male journalists writing either drooling or dismissive profiles of famous (and famously attractive) women. So it might seem a refreshing surprise that a male journalist has announced his aversion to profiling celebrities. In a recent piece for The American…
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After Infertility Diagnosis, Taking Comfort In Jewish Traditions
This week is National Infertility Awareness Week but for me, every week since December 13, 2011 is infertility awareness week. That’s the day a surgeon removed my lentil-sized embryo and the fallopian tube it was stuck in. Left to grow, the embryo that I wanted so badly to be my first child would have killed…
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Unfazed By Booing And Hissing, Ivanka Stays On (Vague) Message
As the Forward recently noted, Politico reports that Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Trump, got a less than friendly welcome at the W20 Conference Tuesday morning in Berlin. Most strikingly, “she was booed and hissed at by the majority-women audience at the conference when she lauded her father for supporting paid leave policies.” Annie Karni…
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Some Ivanka Trump Clothes Rebranded ‘Adrienne Vittadini’
Feeling confident your closet is Ivanka-free? You may need to think again: At The Business of Fashion, Lauren Sherman reports that discount store Stein Mart is “selling Ivanka Trump garments relabeled as Adrienne Vittadini Studio.” What gives? As Sherman writes, the label-switching (which is a thing, apparently? that’s allowed?!) comes down to two possibilities. The…
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Barbra Streisand At 75: An Appreciation Round-Up
Legendary singer, actress, and icon Barbra Streisand turns 75 today. It would be unacceptable for the Sisterhood blog not to acknowledge this fact. Below are but a handful of birthday appreciations. -The Pool offers up its five top Streisand songs. -In Tablet, Rachel Shukert muses on Streisand’s “mythology”; appreciates her talent; and wonders how she’s…
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