Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of Ms. magazine and co-convener of several Palestinian-Jewish dialogue groups, has written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for more than 40 years. She is the author of 12 books, including Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America (1991), and Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy (2022).
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An excerpt from Letty Cottin Pogrebin's 'Shanda'
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I used to think old people were either cute or sad. The cute ones were Kirk Douglas or Ruth Bader Ginsburg doing push-ups, and gray-haired couples animatedly talking to each other or walking hand in hand in the park. The sad ones were stooped, infirm, inept, crotchety, disheveled, occasionally incoherent, and mostly invisible. I used…
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The Forward asked three generations of the Pogrebin family to recount their experiences at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. Here the grandmother, a veteran feminist activist and writer, describes how this protest left her soaring. Read daughter Abigail Pogrebin’s account here and granddaughter Molly Shapiro’s essay here. Pardon the hyperbole but yesterday was one…
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