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The Schmooze Regina Spektor Welcomes Baby Boy
(JTA) — Mazel tov to Regina Spektor on the birth of her son — on keeping the details and photo evidence away from the prying eyes of the media (although we have to admit we’re dying to see a shot of the munchkin). The only public proof that the Jewish songstress and her musician husband Jack…
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Life Where Are the Israeli Female Small Business Owners?
Renee Ghert-Zand // Israeli women network at the business conference Israeli women, like their counterparts in the United States are, in parlance popularized by Sheryl Sandberg, leaning in. However, although Israel is “start-up nation,” it is no leader when it comes to women and business. I got a chance to learn more about this at…
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Fast Forward Detroit Jews Aim for Closer Ties to Muslims
Jewish and Muslim officials in the Detroit area examined areas where they could cooperate more closely. The daylong event, “A Shared Future,” was co-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee’s Detroit office and the Michigan Muslim Community Council. Panelists at Sunday’s event included state lawmakers of both faiths, officials from the local Arab American National Museum…
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Life Feminism Is Better Than Therapy
Vivian Gornick On the website of the Believer there is an excellent interview by Madeleine Schwartz with Vivian Gornick, who is a journalist, feminist, critic, memoirist and just all-around woman you should know and read. Gornick, who was born in the Bronx in 1935 to a couple of Jewish lefties, “grew up torn between the…
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News Eric Cantor Agrees To Meet Jewish Delegation on Immigration
Under mounting pressure on immigration, Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will meet with Jewish advocates for reform on Thursday. Cantor, who is viewed by immigration activists as holding the key for a possible vote on immigration reform, has thus far turned down requests from advocates to meet and has not engaged with Jewish groups…
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Life I’m Moving Back to Kiryas Joel
Getty Images // Families in Kiryas Joel Recently, while sitting at a relative’s wedding in Kiryas Joel and picking at the soggy stuffing under the skin of the chicken thigh and listening to the gossip around me, I had an epiphany: I really, badly miss Kiryas Joel. So, when I got home and kicked off…
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Life Keeping Track of Orthodox ‘Tznius Craziness’
tznius craziness // An ad for children’s costumes shows female faces blanked out. Do you have the sneaking suspicion that an extreme focus on women’s and girls’ modesty has become the new normal in much of the Orthodox community? One man has gathered the evidence into an Evernote virtual notebook he titled “tznius craziness.” The…
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Life Why Are Strong Female Characters So Thin?
Lionsgate Publicity // Jennifer Lawrence as “The Hunger Games’” Katniss Everdeen Over at the Atlantic, Julianne Ross has a piece about the predominance of scrawny women in young-adult fiction. From “The Hunger Games” to “Divergent,” a new wave of popular books features skinny girls acting tough. “It seems literature only goes so far in its…
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