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Culture Hadar Offers Orthodox Women a Glossy Magazine of Their Own
(Haaretz) — Think Vogue, circa 1929 – a drawn silhouette of a fashionably, but conservatively, dressed woman, holding a weekend bag. A women’s fashion magazine without a celebrity on the cover is a real rarity today, what with Kanye and Kim peering from newsstands this month – but Hadar Magazine, a new publication for Orthodox…
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Life Happy Equal Pay Day!
Thinkstock Happy Equal Pay Day Ladies! Today marks how long into this year women must work in order to make how much men made last year when you adjust for how much money we lose because of the 23% gender wage gap. Feels good, right? Equal Pay Day was started by the National Committee on…
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Opinion Memo to New York Times: Women Are Jews, Too
Protesters call for the release of Jonathan Pollard / Getty Images So I check the homepage of the New York Times on Thursday afternoon, as I regularly do several times a day, to see a prominent story proclaiming that all the talk of freeing convicted spy Jonathan J. Pollard is dividing American Jews. “More and…
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News Orthodox Singers Find Creative Voice by Performing for Other Women Only
Talia Lakritz, 20, a Modern Orthodox Jewish sophomore at Barnard College, and her two girlfriends got off a very crowded No. 3 train at Kingston Avenue in a fevered hurry of glee, as they headed to an open-mic night for women at the gallery at The Creative Soul, an organization in the Crown Heights section…
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Life Where Are the Israeli Female Small Business Owners?
Renee Ghert-Zand // Israeli women network at the business conference Israeli women, like their counterparts in the United States are, in parlance popularized by Sheryl Sandberg, leaning in. However, although Israel is “start-up nation,” it is no leader when it comes to women and business. I got a chance to learn more about this at…
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The Schmooze Richard Shepard on His Dad and ‘Dom Hemingway’
For the comedy crime drama, “Dom Hemingway,” Jude Law transformed himself into a vulgar, violent, puffy and unhinged alcoholic fresh out of prison. The film was written and directed by Richard Shepard (“The Matador”) and the cast includes Richard E. Grant (“Dracula”) as Dom’s pal Dickie and Oscar-nominee Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”) as Mr….
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Life Shameful in Beit Shemesh
(Haaretz) — It was as frightening as any terrorist attack, recounted the young woman assaulted in broad daylight at a bus stop in Beit Shemesh last week. But in fact, it was probably worse. After all, one might presume that if an Israeli Jewish woman had been attacked by a Palestinian in the middle of…
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Life Why Are Strong Female Characters So Thin?
Lionsgate Publicity // Jennifer Lawrence as “The Hunger Games’” Katniss Everdeen Over at the Atlantic, Julianne Ross has a piece about the predominance of scrawny women in young-adult fiction. From “The Hunger Games” to “Divergent,” a new wave of popular books features skinny girls acting tough. “It seems literature only goes so far in its…
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