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Culture Yiddish Sex Tips for Girls Find Home in Jerusalem Library
A few months ago, Dr. Yoel Finkelman was browsing through the catalog of the New York auction house Kestenbaum & Company; it’s a regular chore at the National Library’s collections department. He noticed an interesting item. Finkelman, the curator of the library’s Judaica collection, noticed a Yiddish pamphlet titled “Advice for Women and Young Women…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Blur Faces and Erase First Names of Israel Ministers
Another group of women in powerful positions, another haredi Orthodox paper erasing them. Here we go again. After each new Israeli government is sworn in, its ministers pose for a group photo with the president. This year’s photo, taken yesterday, features Israel’s three women ministers in the middle row — Culture and Sport Minister Miri…
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Fast Forward Chabad Includes Woman in Delegation to President Obama
A Chabad delegation meeting with President Barack Obama included a veteran female educator, a nod to the president’s emphasis on the need for education for girls. The meeting at the White House Monday was led by Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, the chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, the umbrella organization for the Lubavitch movement. Such delegations routinely…
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Opinion Why Did Airplane Passengers Ignore Chabad Woman’s Warning?
Have you ever been discriminated against because of how you were dressed? Or how about because of the way you spoke? Mussie Weinfeld very well might have been. have surfaced that a 22-year-old Chabad woman may or may not have saved an entire airplane full of people set to fly from Ben Gurion to Moscow…
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Opinion Men Refusing To Sit by Women? That’s the Symptom. Here’s the Sickness.
When I saw the front page of the New York Times last week with the headline a sense of dread perforated my stomach. The article was an examination of the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who, when faced with being seated next to a woman, demand that the woman be extracted and moved to another…
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Fast Forward Women Read From Torah Scroll at Western Wall
Women of the Wall read from a full-size Torah scroll during the group’s monthly prayer service at the Western Wall. The Torah scroll, one of 100 available for public use on the men’s side of the Western Wall, was passed across the barrier between the men and women’s sections by male supporters of the 26-year-old…
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Opinion Thanks for Passover, Mom
“Who Sets the Table?” is a year-long multi-media project looking at who does what to make Jewish holidays happen at home. Let’s begin with gratitude to our mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts. According to the over 500 of you who answered our “Who Sets the Table?” survey, around 80% off all the domestic work for…
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Life The ‘Mad Men’ Premiere Was All About One Jewish Woman
AMC This post contains spoilers for season 7, episode 8 of “Mad Men.” If you haven’t seen it…what are you waiting for? The final half-season premiere of “Mad Men” was all about women: Models, stewardesses, diner waitresses, career women — in the guise of Peggy and Joan — and socialites all made an appearance. But…
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Opinion Trump drew Arab leaders into a historic peace agreement. Too bad about the one glaring caveat
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Opinion War strained the Israel-Vatican bond. Will the pope use the ceasefire to heal those wounds?
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News ‘It never goes away’: A former hostage describes the paradox of freedom for Israelis who returned home from Gaza
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Fast Forward War battered their Berlin hummus bar. But the Israeli-Palestinian partners behind Kanaan see a way forward.
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Theater Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank?
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