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The Schmooze Is Sex A Human Right? The Talmud Passage That Has The Answer Has Gone Viral.
The Talmud is like that friend of yours who has something to say about everything, and everything to say about sex. It’s a sizable text (the Steinsaltz Bavli Talmud, for example, is 29 volumes in total) that acts like a great, organically growing comments section — a literary Jewish reddit spanning hundreds of years, written…
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Food Nigella Lawson Opens Up About Cooking As A Feminist
Nigella Lawson is flawless. She has a cooking show and her own line of cookware. Her new cookbook At My Table: A Celebration Of Home Cooking is a cozy glimpse into the friendly, reassuring world of home cooking. Angelina Jolie was going to play her in a movie. Blood, Bones and Butter is one of…
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Life Breaking The Glass Ceiling For Female Cantors
Rebecca Garfein was fifteen years old when the man seated in front of her turned around, at the sound of her pleasant singing voice, and offered her an opportunity that would lead her on the path to become a cantor. At the time, Garfein didn’t even know what a cantor was. Throughout her childhood, Garfein…
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The Schmooze ‘I Feel Pretty’ Failed At The Box Office Because We Can’t Handle Women Who Hate Their Bodies
In ‘I Feel Pretty,’ Renee Bennett (Amy Schumer) hates herself. She hates her face and she hates her body. She hates her clothing and her job and her office. She hates her life. Then she hits her head and believes she has transformed into the form of a runway model, and every aspect of her…
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Culture At Millennial Women’s Conference, The Forverts Finds A New Audience
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Last Sunday, March 25, I attended a unique one-day conference at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. organized by and for millennial women. The annual event, called OWN IT, attracts female students from ten universities every year. As the first woman editor of the Yiddish Forward I was…
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Life 4 Questions Every Feminist Should Ask Herself At The Passover Seder
Passover is a time for learning, storytelling, and appreciating our freedom in relation to years’ past. Yet, for the most part, the texts we read in the traditional Haggadah are dominated by men — we discuss the leadership of Moses, we compare the four sons, and retell the conversations between ancient Talmudic male rabbis. So…
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Community Is Ideological Purity Too Much To Ask Of Intersectional Feminists?
A version of this article originally appeared in New Voices. A green text bubble flashed across my phone. “You should write about the Farrakhan, Women’s March, anti-Semitism, intersectionality thing.” I turned my screen dark. I’d been avoiding this. I know. I’m a Jewish feminist writer. I drink my morning coffee out of an Emma Goldman…
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The Schmooze Yet Another White Man Picked To Direct The New ‘Star Wars’ Series
As the “Star Wars” franchise has taught us, anything can happen in space. A princess can become a senator, a spy, and a general. A neurotic robot can form an enduring friendship with a flippant droid. An orphaned scavenger can lead a resistance movement. Laser swords can be used alongside mental manipulation in an intergalactic…
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