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 dncnews@icloud.com.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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Life Men To Sit Behind Women on Jerusalem Trains
For once it will be the men sitting behind women, rather than the other way around. Unlike in Jerusalem buses passing through Haredi neighborhoods, in which women are required to sit at the back while men sit at the front, on the capital city’s new light rail system it will be men sitting in the…
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Life Are Female Athletes Prone to Eating Disorders?
Are even the most physically accomplished young women vulnerable to eating disorders? And does not listing their weights on sports trading cards prevent it? Or contribute to the problem? My 10-year-old daughter, Tae Kwon Do high purple belt and baseball fan, gets Sports Illustrated Kids. Before dispatching her new copy to camp, I took a…
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Life Torah and Toddlers: Parenting’s Jewish Lessons
Rabbi Ilana Grinblat has written a new book, “Blessings and Baby Steps,” (Behrman House, 2011) which synthesizes insights into Torah and lessons learned from giving birth to, and parenting, her two young children. Grinblat teaches Midrash at the American Jewish University’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles, where she received ordination in 2001….
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Life ‘Hush’ Author Goes Public With Real Name
The author of the hit young adult novel “Hush,” has revealed her identity in this essay in the Huffington Post. The writer, who went by the pen name “Eishes Chayil” (or Woman of Valor), told the world that her real name is Judy Brown. Ten months after publishing her debut novel, and several months after…
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News Jewish Funds for Justice Loses Three Top Leaders
The Jewish Funds for Justice, a leading American Jewish organization focused on domestic economic and social policy, is losing three of its top executives just as it works to broaden its public profile. Despite the departure of CEO Simon Greer and two key aides, the group insists it will push ahead with ambitious expansion plans….
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Life Separate-Gender Jewish Activities: It’s Good To Have Rooms of Our Own
I have to disagree with Chanel Dubofsky’s Sisterhood post in which she contends that new interest in Jewish men’s clubs reflects male anxiety about a supposed women’s takeover of Jewish organizations and life. I think it’s great that a non-Orthodox Jewish organization is making progress in engaging Jewish men. The goal is to have everyone…
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Life Israeli Woman May Be Jailed for Refusing Divorce
According to this story in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the rabbinate there has threatened to jail a 59-year-old woman if she continues to refuse to accept a religious divorce, known as a get, from her husband. The news report says: The woman, who lives in the center of the country, is refusing to accept the…
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Life Haredi Perspectives on Birth Control, Abortion
News of the Obama administration’s anticipated adoption of a health panel’s recommendation that birth control be considered preventive care and therefore paid for by insurance companies is being widely welcomed by those concerned with women’s health. It came to mind when I read this advice seeker on the fascinating website Unpious.com. A Haredi woman in…
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