Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at [email protected].
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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News Conservative rabbis approve a new way to call nonbinary people up to Torah
A Rabbinical Assembly committee voted 24-0 to endorse language that does not invoke gender
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News More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it
Rabbis on either side of the debate say its outcome will be consequential for the movement
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News Charlottesville trial to start Monday with Lipstadt as key witness
When the trial of two dozen alt-right organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally begins in Charlottesville on Monday, Jews, among those targeted in the extremist gathering, will be watching closely. But they are also key players in the case. One of the lead lawyers for the plaintiff is Roberta Kaplan, a feminist who has…
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News She lost her legs when a train ran over her. At 54, she’s competing at her fourth Paralympics.
The first thing I noticed about Pascale Bercovitch was her energy. She all but glowed, although she said she was exhausted from trying to adapt to Tokyo time in advance of her flight to the 2020 Paralympics, which departed just a few hours after we spoke by video chat. Bercovitch is competing as a kayaker…
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News They helped build Israel’s first baseball field. Now their son is pitching at the Olympics.
The cheering from Kibbutz Gezer is going to be so loud that Alon Leichman may hear it as he takes to the mound in Tokyo as a pitcher for Team Israel’s baseball team. That’s because his proud parents – David Leichman and Rabbi Miri Gold – will be shouting and clapping along with other family…
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News His psychiatrist took control of his house, his bank account and his life. Now Will Ferrell is portraying him in a true-crime TV series
Imagine this: For nearly 30 years your psychiatrist takes over your life, claims your Southampton estate and your family business, as well as your Swiss bank account as his own. He buys tables at big Jewish fundraising dinners with your money. He convinces you to become estranged from your only sister and persuades you that…
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News Max Solomon Lewis, 20, killed by stray bullet in Chicago
Max Solomon Lewis, a 20-year-old University of Chicago student, was commuting home from his summer internship last Thursday evening when a stray bullet pierced the window of his train car and hit him in the back of the neck. Lewis, a rising third year student, was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center and…
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News Comic book-loving Ivy League grad runs 93 miles a week and is long shot Olympic hopeful
Jordan Gershon Mann is an Ivy League Olympic hopeful, has an MBA and likes to dress up as anime characters for comic book conventions. The 28-year-old Rhode Island resident will be competing in the Olympic track and field steeplechase trials in hope of joining Team USA on June 21 and 24 in Eugene, Ore. He…
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