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Life Enough With the Stay-at-Home Dads
Can we please stop pretending that stay-at-home-dads are a viable, large-scale solution for gender equality? Fifty years after Betty Friedan encouraged women to get out of the house, men have not, in any statistically significant way, come to take their place. And yet, the stay-at-home dad continues to live on in our cultural imagination as…
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Fast Forward U.K. Warning Business Community To Steer Clear of With West Bank
The British government is warning the business community to steer clear of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. New recommendations noting there are “clear risks” and the United Kingdom does “not offer support to such activity” were published last week on the U.K. Trade and Investment website in the section titled Overseas Business Risk–Israel. The…
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Fast Forward Israel, Jordan and P.A. Sign ‘Two Seas Canal’ Water Pipeline Agreement
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement to lay a pipeline between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea that will provide all three with fresh water. Establishing a project called the Two Seas Canal, the pact was signed Monday afternoon at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., according to Israel’s Ministry of…
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News Ron Perelman Is a Mix of Tabloid Headlines and Chabad Charity
Ronald Perelman is in the news, and once again it is for his family’s trademark feuds, fueled by millions, many millions, of dollars. In the latest round, now on display at a New Jersey court, Perelman’s daughter is suing her uncle over her grandfather’s inheritance for more than $600 million. In the past decades, there…
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News Jews Pay Emotional Tribute to Nelson Mandela, ‘Joseph’ of South Africa
Jewish South Africa paid an emotional tribute Sunday to Nelson Mandela — a man they dubbed the rainbow nation’s Joseph for overcoming apartheid to build a future based on reconciliation. Speaking to an overflow crowd of several thousand people in a Johannesburg suburb, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein recounted the Biblical story of Joseph, who overcame…
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Fast Forward Austrian Village Mayor Resigns After Saying Journalists, Jews Should Be Hanged
The former mayor of a village in Austria has resigned following an uproar caused by his statement in favor of hanging Jews and journalists. Karl Simlinger, who ran the village of Gfohl, which is located 43 miles northwest of Vienna, resigned Friday, the news agency Novum reported. Simlinger made the statement on Tuesday night during…
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News Doctor Cannabis
“Also, one will beautify [Shabbat candle lighting] when the wick is made from cotton, flax or cannabis…” That’s right, cannabis. This dictate, found in the Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law), piqued the curiosity of Boston geriatrician Yosef Glassman when he was reading about Sabbath rituals on a religious quest nearly two decades ago. The…
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Life The Rise of Ultra-Orthodox Beauty Salons
According to the BBC, a quiet revolution is taking place among ultra-Orthodox women in Jerusalem. They have discovered the power of mascara. There are, of course, numerous strict restrictions on these women when it comes to their appearance. They must wear modest clothes — no elbows, no collar bones — cover their heads, and many…
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