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Life Got a Sex Question for Dr. Ruth?
Legendary sex therapist Ruth Westheimer is taking Sisterhood reader questions on the next episode of The Jewish Channel’s The Salon, taping this coming Thursday with Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner and Rachel Sklar, founder of TheLi.st. Send your questions about sex and relationships to [email protected] by Wednesday night and The Salon will put them to its…
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Breaking News Beverly Hills Rabbi Busted on Child Sex Charge
A rabbi was arrested at the Jewish youth center where he works in Beverly Hills, Calif., on child sex abuse charges from New York. Menachem Tewel, known also as Mendel Tevel, was arrested Tuesday at the JEM Center, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported. A spokesman for the Beverly Hills Police Department told the…
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The Schmooze Sex Shop With a Mezuzah on the Door
At the upscale San Ignacio mall in central Caracas, Venezuela, the only sight less likely than a sex shop is a sex shop with a mezuzah on the doorpost. But TuTiendaSexy — “your sexy store” — has found success by defying expectations. Founded by a trio of 20-something Jewish-educated college buddies, the brand now encompasses…
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Life Hello from the Sisterhood’s New Editor
Dear readers, I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new editor of the Sisterhood blog. As the deputy culture editor of the Forward, I’ve been covering gender and Judaism for the past two years, writing about topics like halachic infertility, Hasidic feminism and transgender Jews. But my path to the Sisterhood actually began long before…
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Life Bar Mitzvah Pornography
I actually must thank Sam-the-Bar-Mitzvah-video dancer and his family for their voyeuristic and strategically-posted video of the burlesque dance routine that’s been making blogosphere news. They have certainly given us Rabbis fodder for our high holiday sermons. But while many of us are busily typing up diatribes against the excess, the lavishness, the expense and…
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Breaking News Dutch Orthodox School Still Roiled by Abuse
(JTA) — More than a year after his alleged molestation by a male teacher, 6-year-old Ehud (not his real name) still won’t tell everything he knows about the sex scandal rocking Amsterdam’s Cheider, the Dutch capital’s only Orthodox Jewish school. Ehud says the teacher, identified by Dutch media only as 25-year-old Ephraim S., used to…
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Life Fired for Being too Pretty
In the midst of a news month filled with political sex scandals both old and resurrected, you might have missed a bizarre court ruling out of Iowa. The decision basically said: You can be fired for being too attractive, if you are a lady, because your attractiveness has nothing to do with your gender. A…
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News What’s With Jewish Politicians and Sex Scandals?
(JTA) — The guy with the socks up. The guy with the pants down. The guy with the headlocks. The guy who tweets and deletes. What is it with these male politicos? And why are they all Jewish? The cloistered community that is Washington’s Jewish elite collectively choked a little Saturday morning as it progressed…
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