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Life Motherhood in the ‘Lean In’ Era
When Ronit Sherwin moved to Delaware in 2011 to become executive director of the University of Delaware Hillel, she decided to enroll her now three-year-old twins in a daycare program at a well-established Jewish organization. But as a single mother and her family’s sole breadwinner, she couldn’t afford the $2,200 monthly bill for nearly 10…
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Fast Forward Police Plead for Calm as Women Plan Monthly Prayer at Western Wall
Jerusalem police asked haredi Orthodox members of the Jerusalem City Council and Women of the Wall leaders to refrain from confrontation at the Western Wall Plaza this week. Women of the Wall will hold its monthly Rosh Chodesh prayer service at the Western Wall on Wednesday morning. The police and the rabbi of the Western…
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Life Israel’s Unlikely ‘Feminists of Zion’
The cover story, titled “The Feminists of Zion,” in the new issue of The New Republic is required reading for anyone looking for a comprehensive introduction to the war against women playing out in Israel wherever extremist Haredi Jews hold sway against the images or presence of women — or even little girls — in…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Has Few Women in Inner Circle
Anyone who has gotten a look at the work environment around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent years will have easily seen that it has been almost totally devoid of women. The entire cadre of senior managers that Netanyahu has appointed to his bureau since returning to the Prime Minister’s Office in 2009 has…
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Life Stop And Smell the… Boredom?
This is the fourth and final post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. Turns out I’m not the phone-addict I thought I’d become during the first months of my iPhone experiment. To recap: Before Passover, I decided to stop living as a slave to my phone. I’d heard about…
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Life Why I Check Both White and Jewish
Join Caroline Rothstein on Twitter for a Tweet chat about this article tonight, Wednesday, July 31, from 7:00 to 7:30pm ET. Share your opinions with the hashtag #MyJewishID. On a recent Saturday morning, I left my Bushwick apartment in yellow galoshes and a black raincoat, my red umbrella tucked under my elbow, my yoga mat…
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Life Fired for Being too Pretty
In the midst of a news month filled with political sex scandals both old and resurrected, you might have missed a bizarre court ruling out of Iowa. The decision basically said: You can be fired for being too attractive, if you are a lady, because your attractiveness has nothing to do with your gender. A…
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Life Jewish Experience? You Got to Make Your Own
Caroline Rothstein’s recent post, “Lost in Jewish No-Man’s Land,” made me want to write back. Yes, Judaism (and religion in general) is about “questioning and searching for meaning.” However, some of the comments in response to her post made another point. Rothstein recounts her journey as someone who has travelled and searched for Jewish congregations…
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