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Let’s Keep ‘Friend Zone’ Talk Out Of Jewish Birthrate Discussions
An article appeared a couple of weeks ago in the Federalist, “Why Men and Women Can Never Be ‘Just Friends’”, that inspired a lot of pushback at the time. While its author, Hans Fiene, is a Lutheran pastor, the topic the piece deals with — demographics — couldn’t be more connected to Jewish life. Fiene,…
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A Fashion Blog For The Heel-Averse
For that phase of my life extending roughly from the weekly bat mitzvah years (I went to a girls’ school) to early college, I would — in my vague recollection, at least — wear heels. Some of the time. As I got a bit older, and settled into my own personal style, I started to…
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The Guy Who Quit ‘Hot’ Women — And Got Engaged To Short Brunette
By now you may have already read, and read some of the copious commentary on, Christian Gollayan’s epic New York Post story, “Why I won’t date hot women anymore.” The “I” the headline refers to is not the item’s author, but its subject, Dan Rochkind, who “spent the better part of his 30s going on…
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Celebrating 40 Years of Lilith Magazine In Print
For the past 40 years the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith has been in print continuously. That milestone was recently celebrated at Brandeis University, the new home of the magazine’s archives of manuscripts, photographs, letters, drafts, notes, exhibits and more. For the past four decades Lilith has rehabilitated and promoted Lilith, Adam’s first wife, as a…
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Ivanka’s Brand Doing Great, Thanks For Asking
Remember how, back in February, it seemed as if Ivanka Trump, the brand, was failing? Seems as if it’s doing rather well. On Refinery29, Yael Kohen reports that parent company G-III Apparel Group “cited the Ivanka Trump brand as one of a number of brands that saw ‘an increase in gross profit’ last year.” Ah,…
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Well Actually, Men Interrupt Women Even On The Supreme Court
In a new study, Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers of Northwestern found that on the Supreme Court, “the male justices interrupt the female justices approximately three times as often as they interrupt each other during oral arguments.” In their Harvard Business Review piece about their findings, Jacobi, a law professor, and Schweers, a J.D. candidate…
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Sean Spicer’s Very Unfortunate Holocaust Remarks
A highlight, if you could call it that (and I don’t think you could), of being a non-observant Jew on Passover is that I’ve been online to witness, in real Twitter time, President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer’s cascade of unfortunate, seemingly ill-informed Holocaust references. Did Hitler use chemical weapons? Yes. Against his own people?…
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At Passover, Powerful New Writing By Jewish Women On Body Image
With holidays can come unsolicited body commentary from friends and relatives who haven’t seen you since you were (in their recollection, at least) a different shape or size. With this in mind, here’s some great new writing by Jewish women on body image: Maris Kreizman introduces her brilliant personal essay on illness and inadvertent weight…
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In San Bernardino, A Tragically Ordinary Tale
Two stories dominated my feeds yesterday, and by two I mean mostly one: United Airlines managed to cause even more outrage than it had with its leggings ban, this time by having a man physically dragged off one of its planes after he’d refused to volunteer to leave the overbooked aircraft. Everything about the story…
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Whatever Happened To Unleavened Shirts?
On Racked, Rebecca Jennings takes on the trend of the moment: deconstructed button-down shirts. Shirts so voluminous that they almost certainly qualify as chametz: [A]bout six months ago… something very odd began happening to shirts. Brands you can’t afford — brands with names you probably don’t even know — started doing things to shirts that…
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A Feminist Case Against Kosher Wine
This Passover, Jewish women and the men who care about us have to stop drinking kosher wine. This is the year to take kosher wine off our Seder tables and think critically about what it means to consume with an eye towards gender equity and liberation. If you travel to almost any winery in the…
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