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Opinion 6 Things Orthodox Girls Schools Should Do In The #MeToo Era
March first marks the start of Women’s History Month. That date also marks the yartzeit of Sarah Schenirer, pioneer of Bais Yaakov, the ultra-Orthodox girls’ school. In the words of former Bais Yaakov student, Alanis Morissette (kidding), isn’t it ironic? Schenirer is the OG Orthodox feminist. She was a blazing renegade who could stand with…
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Life Does Chabad Have An Answer To ‘The Rebbetzin Question’?
Every year, in a massive hall at a New York hotel, 3,000 women from 100 countries around the world gather for the annual conference for Chabad-Lubavitch’s female emissaries the Chabad Kinus Hashluchos banquet dinner. I’ve been to the banquet several times. Every year, I am struck by the energy in the room. The hall is…
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Opinion Mike Pence’s Israel Trip Was An Affront To Women
Women were segregated at the Western Wall this week. During Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the Kotel, female journalists were relegated to the back. The segregation came not during a religious event but rather during a diplomatic visit. And the women who were sent to the back of the pack were not praying women…
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The Schmooze Israeli Bar Offers Discount To Women On Their Periods
Women spend roughly 25% of their time menstruating, a fact which alone should be enough to grant them monthly financial reparations from their governments. Never mind the fact that women are encouraged to pretend their periods don’t exist (the equivalent of pretending you don’t have a heavy, week-long bloody nose, if your nose could gestate…
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Life Why The Women’s Confessional Essay Is Here To Stay
Recently, there’s been a lot of debate about the value of the personal essay – especially the women’s personal essay – a genre which has taken over online media publications with vigor in the last decade. Jia Tolentino, in her New Yorker essay in May, “The Personal Essay Boom Is Over”, wrote about the increasing…
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Life How To Help Someone Who Had A Pregnancy Or Infant Loss
When Shoshana Traum lost her first baby at only five days old — after going into early labor at 27 weeks — she had no idea that there was a support group for infant loss. “When we left the hospital we didn’t know we needed help, that this would mess us up for a long,…
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Fast Forward Feminist Site Says Zionism Part of White Supremacy, Like Racism, Colonialism
A blog post on a prominent feminist website argued that “gender-based violence does not exist” without systemic white supremacy, in which it included Zionism. The author was Mahroh Jahangiri, a writer for Feministing and former executive director of Know Your IX, a political advocacy group that promotes enforcement of Title IX statutes. Jahangiri wrote earlier…
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Life ‘And He Shall Rule Over You’: The Genesis of #MeToo
It has been both heartbreaking and also oddly unsurprising to see so many women in my Facebook feed identify as victims of sexual assault and harassment. I say unsurprising because, tragically, there is a human propensity to fall prey to the ugliest trappings of patriarchy. Also unsurprising because we’ve been here before – this story…
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