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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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Fast Forward Yeshiva To Merge Faculties of Schools for Men and Women
Yeshiva University announced plans to merge the faculty of its two undergraduate schools, Yeshiva College and Stern College. Richard Joel, president of the university, which is under Orthodox auspices, told students Wednesday that as of July 1, it will begin consolidating all arts and science departments. Stern, a women’s college, and the all-male Yeshiva have…
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Life 28 Women Elected to Knesset in Record
Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home Party is one of 28 women elected to the Knesset./Flash90 In an election with the highest voter turnout since 1999, a record 28 women were chosen for the 20th Knesset. The percentage of eligible voters who came out Tuesday was 71.8; the turnout 14 years ago was 78.7 percent….
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News Should More Ashkenazi Jews Get Tested for Cancer-Causing BRCA Gene Mutations?
A new initiative offering subsidized screening for cancer-causing mutations in Ashkenazi Jews — including those with no family history of cancer — appears to be splitting cancer specialists. The BRCA community study, sponsored by the Program for Jewish Genetic Health, began accepting applicants in January from Ashkenazi women and men age 25 and older. Led…
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Fast Forward 3,000 Israeli Women Rally for Peace
Three thousand women protested outside the Israeli Knesset calling for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. The protest Wednesday was held by Women Wage Peace, an Israeli organization founded after last summer’s war in Gaza that supports a peace agreement. According to the Times of Israel, the group has 7,000 members. At the protest, the women formed…
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Life Combining Forces to Battle Breast Cancer
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman Dozens of Torontonians have gathered to nosh on latkes and blintzes at a downtown café’s weekly Yiddish cabaret. Tables are squeezed close together, and as the performance winds down, my college roommate and I start chatting with our neighbors. The two women and their pre-teen daughters are out celebrating the girls’…
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Life Bulimia Comedy Conquers TV’s Last Taboo
Are eating disorders the last taboo on TV? Los Angeles-based filmmaker and comedian Jessie Kahnweiler thinks so and is setting out to change that with “The Skinny,” an episodic series based on her struggles with bulimia. “Every movie I see depicting eating disorders makes me want to barf,” writes Kahnweiler on the project’s Kickstarter page….
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Opinion Progressive Jews are trying out post-Zionism. There’s one big flaw in their approach
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