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Opinion How Ultra-Orthodoxy Is Most Feminist Faith
Cris de coeur over the economic state of Israel’s Haredim are commonplace these days. Understandably so; the community is in dire financial straits. Some of the alarm may be motivated by concern for members of the Haredi community; much of it is clearly born of disquiet over what Haredi poverty and unemployment rates seem to…
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Opinion The Nazi Commandments for Pure Aryan Society
Blind German schoolgirls learn about heredity. Photo by Courtesy “The Ten Commandments For Choosing a Spouse,” was written by the public health committee of the Reich and published in Germany in 1935. Beginning Tuesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it will be on display in Hebrew translation as part of the “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master…
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Life Seeing the Holocaust Through Eyes of Women
Ravensbrück. Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. From sexual violence to pregnancies to “camp sisters,” women’s testimonies provide a more comprehensive view of the Holocaust. Beginning with her seminal “The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp” Rochelle G. Saidel, founder and executive director of the Remember the Women Institute, has dedicated her life to making sure these…
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Opinion Want To Stop Terror Attacks? Cover Up!
Illustration by Lior Zaltzman “Short clothing = shortened life.” That’s a message currently winding its way through Jerusalem’s streets, thanks to a new ultra-Orthodox modesty campaign. The ad, plastered across 20 Egged buses, has been sparking social media protests among secular Israelis who resent being told how to dress. They’re saying that it’s hypocritical of…
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Opinion We Need a Mikveh Revolution
Recent events have forced us as a community to take a hard look at the practice of having female converts immerse themselves in a mikveh before a rabbinical court of three men. In the wake of news that a Washington rabbi, Barry Freundel, allegedly spied on women as they were engaging in this ritual, others…
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Food Balabusta Bootcamp
Kosher-cookbook author Jamie Geller admits she wasn’t born with the balaboosta gene. Photograph courtesy of Jamie Geller. Once upon a time, a Jewish home was managed by a domestic goddess who could clean, sew and cook a meal for an army at a moment’s notice. And this balabusta, or mistress of the house, would do…
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Opinion Looking for My Gloria Steinem or Bella Abzug
There’s possibly no better evidence of the lack of female role models I had growing up than the fact that I wasn’t even aware of their absence. It took me until my late 20s to realize that all the people I admired, the ones after whom I was somewhat foolishly modeling my life were all…
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News Beauty Is a Beast — Hayat Boumeddiene Went From Bikini Girlfriend to Terror Fugitive
French police were still hunting Saturday for the girlfriend of the slain terrorist who killed four hostages at a Paris kosher grocery store — and several reports say she fled to lawless Syria. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, whose boyfriend Amedy Coulibaly was killed when police stormed the grocery, apparently escaped the bloody scene and was on…
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