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Life Wedding Proposals Go Viral
Last week, I wrote a piece for TODAY.com about a man in Chicago named Jason Methner, whose incredibly elaborate proposal to his now-fiancee involved an original kids’ book and some collusion from the Chicago Public Library. While most of the comments on the article were positive, quite a few people were unhappy. However, it wasn’t…
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Fast Forward National Council of Jewish Women Calls on Israel To Sanction Civil Marriage and Divorce
The National Council of Jewish Women called on the Jewish state to create a system of civil marriage and divorce in what was seen as a landmark move. “The monopoly of authority given to Orthodox rabbinical courts in Israel regarding issues of personal status, particularly marriage, weakens rather than strengthens the state itself by causing…
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Opinion The Tipping Point?
For all the excitement and drama of the new parties and fresh faces in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, one thing has stayed depressingly constant: The paltry number of women in the Israeli cabinet. True, the count increased by one — from three in the last government, to four. And technically, the percentage…
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Life It’s Paternity Leave, Stupid
Those of us who have made it our business to achieve gender equality by way of parenting, have long pushed for better paternity leave policies. Quite simply, it is the right thing to do. But it looks like it’s also the economically prudent thing to do, too. The New York Times magazine had a story…
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Life Help! My iPhone Has Taken Over My Life
This is the first post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. On the Shabbat afternoon before Passover, I received a frantic voicemail from a friend who had texted me an important question earlier that morning. She was worried (and annoyed) when I had not texted back by noon. Was…
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Life Reproductive Rights Take More Hits
Legal abortion could become a thing of the past in a handful of states if anti-choice efforts are successful. Note that I don’t say abortion will become a thing of the past, because the need for abortion will persist, but safe and legal abortion will be outlawed as a spate of new state-level laws curtail…
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Life Remembering Jewish Astronaut Judith Resnik
Unlike my mom, who loves to “b’sheret” everything, I don’t tend to make a big deal of coincidences. But one happened this week that is worth a Sisterhood mention. My mom had been going through some old boxes when she discovered the newspaper clipping of the Challenger disaster. “You wouldn’t let me throw it away,”…
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Life Anger Over Kotel Kaddish Ban Leads to Reversal
Outcry from Jews in Israel and the Diaspora has led the rabbi in charge of policies at the Kotel to back down from his plan to have women arrested for saying Kaddish, says Anat Hoffman, chair of Women of the Wall. At a meeting Thursday with Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel,…
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Fast Forward A century-old Jerusalem photo album sparks search for forgotten images of the Western Wall
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Fast Forward 5th man charged in March arson of London’s Hatzola ambulances
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