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Life Hearing the Voices of Jewish Women Who Survived Hurricane Katrina
It has been four years since Hurricane Katrina hit with devastating and deadly force, killing at least 1,836 people, destroying tens of thousands of homes, and sending 1 million people away from New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the Gulf Coast into other parts of the country. Four years later, while some areas have returned to…
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Life Saving Women, Saving the World
Deborah Kolben’s previous post, about how her first ultrasound initially mistook her daughter for a son, brings to mind an article in this weekend’s New York Times that discusses just how complicated determining a person’s sex can be. Fascinating and freaky, the article — and my seeing a look-alike for the androgynous SNL character “Pat”…
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Life What Rabbi Eliyahu’s Comments Say About Men
Debra’s point in the previous post that Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu’s statements regarding modesty says “far more about the way the rabbi views men than it does women” warrants further discussion. The view of men that I think Debra is suggesting Eliyahu’s statement implies – that they are likely to be aroused by the slightest…
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Life The Debate Over Chromosome-Centric Media
Are women’s voices being ghettoized in the name of niche media? Ann Friedman, deputy editor of The American Prospect recently tackled this very query in light of Slate’s spin-off, Double X, and its debut. It should be mentioned that a founding editor, Hannah Rosin, has been giving smart answers to readers’ questions on the Bintel…
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Life From Bench to Bimah, Women Rule
This article, looking at whether women rule differently as judges than men do, ran recently in the New York Times. Renowned female judges – who happen to be Jewish – have themselves struggled with the question. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in ruling over a case involving the strip search of an adolescent girl,…
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Life Who Was Hannah Solomon?
The statue is more than a foot high, a representation of Hannah G. Solomon atop a sturdy base. The very kind members of the National Council of Jewish Women presented this to me earlier this week, in recognition that through great luck and timing, I’m the first woman to edit this newspaper. So who was…
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