Allison Gaudet Yarrow
By Allison Gaudet Yarrow
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Life In The White House, Women Earn on Average Less Than Men
There’s nothing more unsettling than the public discussion of money, and how much or little of it one makes. Not long ago, competitive salary analysis among urban professionals was a brutal sport. The fangs of the once-well-paid have retracted in these tough times, though, as the employed are simply ecstatic to have a place to…
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Life The Daily Show with Jonathan Leibowitz
Jon Stewart a relic of antisemitism? Ron Rosenbaum thinks so. “Dear Jon Stewart,” he writes in Slate, “I want you to change your name. Back to Leibowitz.” He is referring to Stewart’s birth moniker, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz. Many of us have stories about how our family names were hacked into Americanized semblances of the original…
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News Every Shrine Has Its Secrets
Zev Chafets grew up a Detroit Tiger’s fan alongside a Yiddish-speaking uncle who taught him that Hank Greenberg’s team was the Jews, and that their adversaries were the “goyim.” Since then, he has moved to Israel, where he worked in the administration of Menachem Begin, and back. He reported for the New York Times and…
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Culture Women’s Professional Soccer Has a New Jewish Star
Three short-lived seasons of The Women’s United Soccer Association, which folded in 2003, left American fans distraught, but Women’s soccer is trying again. The Women’s Professional Soccer league debuted in April with seven teams, no television deals, and a substantially smaller budget. Some are dubious that it will ever make real money, writing it off…
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Life Sarah Palin Fires Health Director, Reportedly Over Abortion Bill
A proposal requiring parental consent for abortions for girls ages 17 and under was certified last week by the state of Alaska. Guess who thinks this is a good idea? Yes, Sarah Palin. She may be leaving office with tremendous debt accrued from combating a bevy of ethics complaints, as she told ABC news while…
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Life Targets at Wimbledon: Women Who Grunt
Months after a highly ranked tennis player was forbidden from playing in Dubai because she is an Israeli Jew, women’s tennis is back in the news. This time, the debate isn’t about nations, but instead, the noises women make on the court, and why they are irksome. Michelle Larcher de Brito, 16. a fierce competitor…
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Life Minnesota Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Franken
After a 7-month court battle, the Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled that Democrat (and Jew) Al Franken has won the Minnesota Senate seat formerly occupied by Republican (and fellow MOT) Norm Coleman. Read about it here. Both Franken’s and Coleman’s camps said they would hold press conferences later in the day.
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Life The Myth of the Endangered Male
I recently witnessed a panel in honor of Father’s Day titled Dads, Dudes, Doing it, where four very bright feminists from different generations charted how their identities were shaped by the men in their lives. Gloria Feldt, Kristal Brent Zook, Deborah Siegel, and Courtney Martin parsed maleness from “a penis and a paycheck” to the…
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