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Fast Forward Gulf Arabs Donate $100M To Ivanka Trump-Inspired Women’s Foundation
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have decided to pour money into a women’s entrepreneurship fund run by the World Bank and inspired by Ivanka Trump following her father’s visit to the Arab world. “We thought it was a fantastic idea,” World Bank President Jim Young Kim said, when news of the $100 million…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Union Pushes Women Clergy To Change Their Titles — But To What?
NEW YORK (JTA) — Following its rabbinic ruling prohibiting synagogues from hiring female clergy, the Orthodox Union is pressuring synagogues that have hired the women to change their titles. In February, the Orthodox Union, an umbrella Orthodox Jewish group, issued a Jewish legal ruling by seven rabbis that bars women from serving as clergy or in…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Launches Listening Tour Of Government To Learn About Women’s Issues
Ivanka Trump will be meeting with various administration officials and cabinet heads as part of the first daughter’s push to become an advocate within the White House on women’s issues. The listening tour will begin with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt, and then move to other higher-ups, including Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Labor…
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Fast Forward Jewish Groups Decry House Approval Of GOP Healthcare Bill
(JTA) — Jewish groups criticized the passage of a health care bill by the House of Representatives to repeal and replace major parts of the Affordable Care Act. The bill passed Thursday in a 217-213 vote almost entirely along party lines. The measure would nix tax penalties for those without health insurance and decrease state programs to insure low-income Americans….
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Fast Forward IDF Nixes Feminism Course For Women Officers, Anticipating Religious Backlash
The Israel Defense Forces canceled a series of feminism workshops for its top female officers, after deciding the activity would antagonize religious elements that want to limit women’s military role. Titled “Preparation for the Development of Gender Consciousness and Leadership,” the program would have taught women officers the basics of feminist thought and encouraged them…
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Fast Forward At Ivanka’s Company, There Were Women Who Worked … Without Maternity Leave
Ivanka Trump has created a lifestyle brand — and now a book — premised on women’s empowerment. But her company did not have a maternity leave policy until her female workers pushed her to adopt one. When Trump’s “Women Who Work” initiative launched in 2013, “They [had] no maternity policy in place, they [didn’t] have…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Booed At Berlin Women’s Summit Over Defense Of Dad
Ivanka Trump tried to use her poise and message of women’s empowerment to win over fans — and it didn’t go well at all. Audience members booed and hissed at her — and the panel’s moderator peppered her with tough questions about her father President Trump. “I’m very proud of my father’s advocacy,” she said…
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Fast Forward This Jewish Student Is Creating A New Book Of Feminist Blessings
After being catcalled at a neighborhood deli some months ago, New School senior Emily Rogal felt jarred and upset. She wished she had a way to feel safe. So she took out her phone and began writing. She called it her composition the “bodega bracha,” using a Hebrew word for blessing. “I call myself halachically…
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