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Life My Feminist Foremothers
This is the eleventh entry in an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. My own attachment to Jewish feminism arose from my relationship to the women in my family — my grandmothers, my mother, and my sister — during my childhood and teen-age years. I was very close to my two bubbes (grandmothers), both of whom…
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Life Priming the Next Generation of Feminists
This is the tenth entry in an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. I embraced Jewish feminism with passion, as did many women in my generation. We were the mothers, the founders, the fighters. My special battle arena was having women ordained as rabbis in the Conservative movement. When that was accomplished, I knew we would…
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Life The Feminist Case for ‘Fathers’ and ‘Kings’
No Haggadah in recent memory — or, perhaps, ever — has generated the kind of interest that the “New American Haggadah” has. When I began looking it over in preparation for a review of it, I was surprised by the unabashedly masculine way that Nathan Englander’s compelling translation refers to God. But as I thought…
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The Schmooze Rachel Dratch: ‘I’m a Troll’
Rachel Dratch just isn’t pretty enough. That is why, she writes in her new memoir, “Girl Walks Into A Bar,” she hasn’t made it big in films or on television post-SNL. “I am offered solely the parts that I like to refer to as The Unf-ckables. In reality, if you saw me walking down the…
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Life In Israel, Jewish and Feminist Selves Do Battle
This is the ninth entry in an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. The first time I entered an Orthodox synagogue and saw a mehitza, or divider separating men and women in prayer, I was a little girl visiting my grandparents in Queens. Their home wasn’t religiously observant in the slightest, but my grandfather had grown…
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Life The End of Feminist Seders?
Google “feminist seder,” and links to articles about Seders long passed come up. Google “women’s seder,” however, and you find links to dozens of current model Seders for women, run by synagogues, JCCs and other Jewish institutions all over the country. The word feminist doesn’t appear. Outside of the original, private feminist Seder — still…
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Life Keeping Feminism Off the Style Pages
Sarah Hepola, in a recent — and ill-headlined — New York Times article explored whether feminists have and/or need a another leader like Gloria Steinem. Hepola writes that nobody has emerged to take Steinem’s place as feminist team captain, and she arrives at the conclusion that feminism has been replaced by feminisms — that feminism is now a…
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Life Staying the (Jewish Feminist) Course
This is the sixth entry of an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. How I became a feminist and why I have remained one for 40 years are two different stories. In December 1962, returning home from the lecture circuit, my husband purchased for me Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” at an airport bookstore. This was…
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