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The Schmooze ‘I Will Never Be Silenced’: Let This Gal Gadot Speech Change Your Day
Dressed like a sexy, lavender disco ball, Gall Gadot tossed her pre-prepared speech to the floor to applause from the crowd of A-listers. In a now-viral speech on Thursday night, the newly minted Hollywood superstar accepted the #SeeHer honor at the Critics’ Choice Awards, which recognizes a person who has demonstrated “the importance of accurately…
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Community When Fighting For The Rights Of Female Clergy, Don’t Forget The Cantors
In the Jewish world, cantors are often regarded as second-class members of the clergy, if they are regarded as clergy at all. For a long time, the role of the cantor was a musician, a service-leader, and nothing more. While this is no longer the case, the stigma still exists, and female cantors tend to…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Just Did Right By All Women At The Golden Globes
Natalie Portman, resplendent in a decadent velvet gown and her signature face-that-looks-like-it-was-personally-architected-by-God, almost made a huge mistake at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards. She followed Oprah. After Oprah Winfrey’s exceptionally barn-burning acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award, a speech that brought the entirety of the Hollywood glitterati to its feet with an evangelical…
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The Schmooze Female Comedian Sued For ‘War On Men’ After Holding ‘Girls Night’ Comedy Show
Some men just can’t take a joke. “Last Comic Standing” winner Iliza Shlesinger is facing a lawsuit after her “Girls Night In” comedy event allegedly ejected two men who had purchased tickets to see the November 13 show, according to Variety. Shlesinger is being sued by a man who — thanks to blessings from the…
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Opinion How My Daughter Helped Me Realize That Women Are More Than Just Victims
I will confess that when I found out I was pregnant almost exactly seven years ago, I prayed, in my furtive post-ultra-Orthodox-atheist way, that I wasn’t having a girl. Not because the happily-every-after-formula in all the stories I’d been told as a child was “and nine months later his wife gave birth to a healthy…
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Opinion A Yeshiva U Rabbi Called Feminists ‘Whores.’ They’re Not Backing Down.
There is a famous scene in the movie “Casablanca” in which Renault asks Rick why he came to Casablanca. “I came for the waters,” Rick says. When Renault reminds Rick that Casablanca is in the desert, Rick answers wryly, “I was misinformed.” I thought of this exchange when I read about recent events at YU’s…
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Opinion The Embarrassing Pay Gap In The Board Rooms Of Jewish Not-For-Profits
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Early this morning, I received an email from a friend who has worked for years with leaders of national nonprofits. “Tell me I read the Forward figures wrong,” she wrote. “I saw no…
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The Schmooze Feminist Icon Pink Is Raising Her Children Without Gender Labels
The celebrated singer-songwriter Pink may be named after a traditionally feminine color, but she won’t be raising her children with gender labels. In an interview about her success and raising children in the Trump era, the performer explained that she and racer Cary Hart run a “very label-less household”. The couple believes in sending their…
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