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Life When Men Pray, Women Are Asked To Leave The Room
Separate but unequal is inherently unequal. The Orthodox requirement for separate religious spheres, including for prayer, is understood in the modern Orthodox world not as an exception to this axiom, but as a divinely ordained protection of complementary roles for men and women in Jewish law. The case is closed for disputing the paradox of…
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Community Why Our Daughters Need Lilith Now More Than Ever
The time for red ribbons on the crib has come again as I await the birth of my second daughter. In 1900 Anzia Yezierska, a Polish-Jewish immigrant moved to the Lower East Side and wrote a book called Red Ribbon on a White Horse. She ran away from her orthodox family in search of words,…
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Life Meet The Feminist Jewish Doctor Who Fought For Civil Rights — At All Costs
At the end of the 1950s and 1960s, Atlanta was deeply segregated — down to its very hospitals. At Grady Hospital, cardiac patients were separated by race, with white patients being addressed with the honorific “Mr.” or “Mrs.”, while black patients were referred to their name only. In the meantime, black nurses were simply called…
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Forward 50 2017 Emily Shire
Starting The Debate On Zionism And Feminism Emily Shire’s Twitter bio says it all — combining pride in Israel, feminism and femininity, too: “My high school yearbook quotes were of Golda Meir and Carrie Bradshaw.” Shire, a 27-year-old law school student and contributor to the Forward, became a voice for young feminist Zionists when she…
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Fast Forward Feminist Site Says Zionism Part of White Supremacy, Like Racism, Colonialism
A blog post on a prominent feminist website argued that “gender-based violence does not exist” without systemic white supremacy, in which it included Zionism. The author was Mahroh Jahangiri, a writer for Feministing and former executive director of Know Your IX, a political advocacy group that promotes enforcement of Title IX statutes. Jahangiri wrote earlier…
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Life ‘And He Shall Rule Over You’: The Genesis of #MeToo
It has been both heartbreaking and also oddly unsurprising to see so many women in my Facebook feed identify as victims of sexual assault and harassment. I say unsurprising because, tragically, there is a human propensity to fall prey to the ugliest trappings of patriarchy. Also unsurprising because we’ve been here before – this story…
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Life Mayim Bialik Is Right About Beauty Obsession. My Orthodox Community Can Learn From Her.
When Mayim Bialik wrote about the power of modesty, amid the promiscuous values of Hollywood — as an Orthodox Jew, I was deeply moved. Not only was it empowering to hear a Hollywood actress extol the Jewish ideals of modesty, but it also struck me as an ever-more relevant reminder for my own community. In…
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Opinion It’s Good Harvey Weinstein Was Stopped. But Let’s Not Start A Witch Hunt
The dizzying downfall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, accused of sexually harassing and assaulting numerous actresses and other women, has produced a rare moment of consensus in America’s fractured culture. Virtually all agree that the once-powerful producer, who has been fired from his company and is being scrubbed from film and television credits, is a…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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