Why Nick Jonas should not sing ‘Shiksa Goddess,’ the outdated song from ‘The Last Five Years’
The song — and the term ‘shiksa’ — is offensive to Jewish and non-Jewish women alike
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Life 100 Years Of Jewish Men ‘Rebelling’ With Non-Jewish Women
Carey Purcell’s confessional essay in the Washington Post — about being a Gentile woman dating Jewish men, only to be broken up with for Jewish women — has touched a sore nerve, evidently. “Over almost seven years and two serious relationships with Jewish men who at first said religion didn’t matter — and then backtracked…
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Community My Most Disturbing Shabbat
A version of this article originally appeared in the Texas Jewish Post. It was the most disturbing experience I had during my almost two years studying in yeshiva in Israel. My friend who studied in a small yeshiva on the outskirts of one of the oldest neighborhoods in Jerusalem had invited me to spend the…
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Life ‘Shiksa Appeal’ Leans on Outmoded Stereotypes
I really did want to put down “Secrets of Shiksa Appeal: Eight Steps to Attract Your Shul-Mate,” a new self-help guide, which begins with the cringe-worthy lines, “I once drove a boyfriend into the arms of a shiksa. The following pages are my attempt to make up for that.” But before I knew it I…
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Life Prime Ribs: Gwyneth and Kabbalah; Knesset’s ‘Shiksa’ Debate
Apparently a love for Kabbalah runs in the family. Contact Music is reporting that in an upcoming episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?” Gwyneth Paltrow discovers that her great-great-great grandfather was a master of Kabbalah. In other celebrity Kabbalah news, The Kabbalah Centre has apparently sent out an email to its members explaining…
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Life ‘Don’t Call Me — or Chelsea — a Shiksa’
The recent conversion to Judaism and subsequent marriage of Ivanka Trump to Jared Kushner, and Chelsea Clinton’s even more recent engagement to Marc Mezvinsky have newspapers, magazines and blogs discussing the impact these relationships have on society and on the families involved. In this Daily Beast essay, Samuel P. Jacobs touts Ivanka Trump’s, and presumably…
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