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Life The Many Reasons Why I Am a Feminist Jew
This is the sixteenth entry in an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. I am a feminist Jew because I view being Jewish as a gift, as I do being a woman. Neither should suffer for the sake of the other. I am a feminist Jew because I believe that Torah is our divinely-inspired central literature,…
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The Schmooze Video: Spot-On ‘Girls’ Parody
The “Girls” of New York are seeing some competition — from a pair of equally jobless and sex-obsessed “Boys” in L.A. The latest humor video to hit the net — a trailer for a “Girls” spoof called “Boys” — satirically follows the lives of 20-something-boys trying to make it in L.A. The joke trailer is…
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Opinion Rabbi Elyashiv’s Legacy of Women’s Pain
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the 102-year-old Lithuanian religious figure who died this week, is being hailed in some circles as the “greatest leader of his generation”. He may have been great to some men, but for women, his ideas and rulings were often the cause of enormous pain. For example, he was a vigorous adherent…
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News A Team of Our Own
When I heard that it was Title IX’s 40th anniversary, my first thought was that it would best be commemorated by some great female athlete who could rhapsodize about her experience breaking the, er, net ceiling. But then I realized that while this landmark legislation, which guaranteed women equal access to athletic and academic opportunities…
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The Schmooze Michael Bloomberg Loves ‘Girls’
Acclaimed author Martin Amis?s move to Brooklyn isn?t the only thing that the bookish borough has to brag about, and Mayor Bloomberg is the first to say so. The Gracie Mansion mayor recently professed his love for Greenpoint?s latest sensation: ?Girls?: a New York based HBO comedy about a gang (or, well, gaggle) of 20-something…
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The Schmooze Video: Lena Dunham on ‘Tiny, Neurotic Jews’
Shoshanna might be a new kind of Jewish American Princess, but in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg, “Girls” creator Lena Dunham revealed that she originally conceived of Marnie (played by Allison Williams) as another sort of Jewish stereotype: “A neurotic, stressed-out, like, tiny, high-achieving Jew.” Judd Apatow, she said, coached her toward…
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Culture ‘Girls,’ Sex and the All New JAP
Within her first two minutes on screen, it’s evident that Shoshanna Shapiro is a Jewish American Princess. From perfectly coiffed hair to a pink Juicy Couture tracksuit to her admission that her parents are paying $2,100 a month for her Nolita apartment, Shoshanna, one of the four protagonists on the HBO show “Girls” — which…
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News The Ladies in Grey and Blue
About 10,000 Jewish men fought in the Civil War, for both the Union and Confederate armies. When these soldiers set off for battle, they left behind their wives, sisters and daughters, who stayed to raise the children and run the households and, sometimes, the family businesses. But not all these women stayed focused on only…
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