What do you do when you’re harassed for being Jewish on the street?
Don't just keep it to yourself
Don't just keep it to yourself
(JTA) — An Israeli woman who lives in Massachusetts chased down and held a man who exposed himself to her while she was jogging. Single mother Aia Polansky, 33, was running in Cambridge when the male jogger dropped his pants to his knees as she ran by. Polansky, a 6-foot-1-inch-tall veteran of the Israel Defense…
If you’re a woman, chances are that showing a woman walking in New York City for 10 hours resonated with you in some way. The clip, which was seriously debated online, was meant to draw awareness of how problematic street harassment can be. Some were moved. Others dismissed the whole thing. But what would your…
It’s getting to the point where I can feel it in my posture. The inevitability of street harassment makes my shoulders tense up before I even leave my house. I don’t make eye contact on the street, ever, but especially with men. I wear headphones all the time anyway, but because of them, I probably…
Last Thursday as I was standing outside of my apartment building with a friend, a stranger approached me from behind and slapped me, very hard, on my rear end. The moment reminded me of the time I was in a minor car accident, so physically jarring that I was rendered speechless. My friend yelled a…
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