Media Roundup: ‘Bad’ Jewish Moms Get the Last Laugh
• With the release of Ayelet Waldman’s “Bad Mother” and Lenore Skenazy’s “Free Range Kids,” self-proclaimed “bad” Jewish mothers are having their moment.
• A breast cancer diagnosis brought Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz closer to her Jewish heritage, according to a Moment magazine profile of the Florida Democrat.
• Jewess has a Q&A with Tamar Snyder, the founder of Pazit.org, an organization that encourages Jewish women to become more fiscally responsible through “value-based money management.”
• Meet the Jewish matriarchs of the “green revolution.” This impressive cadre of activists are touting the likes of LEED-certified shuls, and Earth-friendly weddings and bar mitzvahs.
• Expenses related to childcare — including private nannies, daycare and preschool — are indeed tax deductible, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled.
• The fervently Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood Mea She’arim is ground zero for demonstrations for and against gender segregation on Egged bus lines that cater to the Haredi community.
• Israeli expat and Esquire-magazine darling Shirly Brener, who will appear in 10 feature films in the next year, discusses what it takes for an Israeli actress to make it in the thirty-mile zone. You can also check the Forward’s recent article on Hollywood’s love affair with Israeli talent.
• Everything you need to plan a Jewish wedding — band, dress, chuppah, ketubah — plus plenty of amusing commentary, is here.
• Achinoam Nini, a Jewish Israeli, and Mira Awad, an Arab Israeli hope to charm Eurovision Song Contest judges with their Hebrew-Arabic-English musical duet for peace, “There Must be Another Way.”
• Formula One’s eccentric chief executive says the venerable auto race is in search of “a black, Jewish woman who, if possible, wins some races too.”