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 The Anti-Contraception, Anti-Abortion Paradox
When I was a young adult and ready to start on the birth control pill, I found that its cost was not covered by my health insurance. Paying the retail price was onerous. It didn’t seem right that insurance wouldn’t cover contraception, though it did cover the cost of giving birth and possibly even abortion….
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Life After Leiby’s Murder, Teaching Our Kids To Be Street-Smart
The details of the murder last week of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky are heart-rending. It was an act of evil that recalls the first time in modern memory that a stranger abducted a child off the streets of New York City. That child was also a young Jewish boy, Etan Patz, who had, like Leiby, begged…
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News New Leader of Orthodox Rabbinic Group Confronts an Organization Divided
One of Rabbi Shmuel Goldin’s prime goals as the new head of Modern Orthodoxy’s largest rabbinic association is, on its face, exceedingly modest: Goldin, who became president of the Rabbinical Council of America in June, hopes to keep the 76-year-old organization from breaking apart. “I do see the extremes becoming more extreme,” Goldin said in…
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Life How Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Breaks the ‘Girl Executive’ Mold
The lead story in the current issue of The New Yorker is a compelling profile of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg. Ken Auletta wrote the wide-ranging piece on Sandberg, who is Jewish, and includes a bit about her recent speech to the women graduating from Barnard College, which also got attention in Elissa Strauss’…
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Life A Mother’s Meditation on the Pleasure of Solitude
I am enjoying the ultimate luxury vacation. Am I in a villa on the mountainous shores of Lake Como? No. Wading into startlingly clear turquoise waters in the Caribbean? Nope. In a south Tel Aviv boutique hotel in newly hip Neve Tzedek? I wish. I am simply… in my house… quiet and alone. My husband…
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Life Prosecutors: Crown Heights Woman Was Gang Raped for Years
Four men accused of raping a young Jewish woman from Crown Heights over a period of eight years have been indicted according to news reports. The reports say that the Jewish woman was just 13 years old when the attacks began, and that the alleged perpetrators in the case had also sold her to other…
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Life Can’t Find Your Knees? Try the Tznius Ruler
As we prepare to welcome this Fourth of July, in case you are wondering if your hem is too high, No need to fret, maidel, no need to worry. We have a helpful new tool from Lakewood’s Jewiest Jews. It’s a “Tznius Ruler,” with measuring markers, designed just to help us modest girls be tznius-ier….
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The Schmooze Should Kate Moss Get a New Wedding Dress?
Despite her Jewish last name, Kate Moss is not a Member of the Tribe. Proof positive? At her faux-secret wedding, she will [reportedly][1] be wearing a wedding dress designed by John Galliano, who, as you’ll recall, was caught on tape during a drunken, anti-Semitic rant. She may be a supermodel, but that’s no guarantee of…
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