(JTA) — Thousands of women have posted experiences about sexual harassment using the #metoo hashtag. The #metoo posts have also prompted responses from men who acknowledge the enormity of the problem of sexual abuse, and are promising to do more to stop it. Rabbi Andrew Shapiro Katz, who lives in the Israeli city of Beersheva,…
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…
Here is a list of every character Gal Gadot played this weekend as the host of “Saturday Night Live”: A 21 year-old model. A woman who is so oblivious she is tricked into dating OJ Simpson. A literal male fantasy. A fairytale princess. A sexy French criminal. A heterosexual woman who sexually experiments with other…
Democrats are facing calls to return donations from Harvey Weinstein after a report on decades of sexual harassment by the famed Hollywood producer and big-time political check-writer. “If the Democratic Party purports itself to be the champion of women, they ought to lead by example in returning or donating the donations received from Harvey Weinstein,”…
It’s hard out there if you’re a “white devil Jew b****.” Or at least it was for Jenji Kohan, whose says her first job in a writer’s room on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” where she represented half of the show’s female writers, earned her the moniker. Kohan gives no context — it might have been…
If you walk into Monsey’s Evergreen kosher supermarket, somewhere among the extensive schnitzel varieties and Shabbos candy treats, you’ll see a single children’s book for sale. Zai Gezunt! is the Yiddish translation of Artscroll’s Let’s Stay Safe, written by Bracha Goetz and illustrated by Tova Leff, a picture book that talks about children’s safety of…
You wouldn’t believe she’s only 20. With no film schooling or experience, Baltimore native Miryam Rabinowitz has thrown herself into a film project that tells the story of sexual abuse — or rather, its lonely, complex aftermath. “Still Feeling” tells the story of Yuval Goldenberg, a young woman who was abused during her childhood in…
“We’re building, grooving, growing.” So says Dov Charney, the disgraced ex-CEO of American Apparel, in Bloomberg. But he’s not talking about American Apparel — the company liquidated its inventory after declaring bankruptcy a second time in January of this year. Charney has a new company — Los Angeles Apparel — and he’s using the same…
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