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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Life I’ll Take My Sports Magazines Sans Naked Women
You expect to see naked (or near naked) women on the cover of Playboy. On the cover of ESPN magazine? Not so much. When our family’s copy of Outside magazine arrived recently, the cover made me look twice, and not in a good way. The cover photo of female climber Alex Puccio shows off her…
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News ‘Every Title Is on the Table’ as Advisers at Women’s Yeshiva Consider Degrees
A new debate looms over what to call Orthodox Jewish women trained in rabbinic texts and serving the Jewish community as religious leaders. And the ‘R’ word has once again reared its disruptive head. Yeshivat Maharat, the institution that is training women to work as Orthodox religious leaders, has formed its first advisory board and…
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Life A Pink Ribbon Is Not Meaningful Social Activism
A dear, and shockingly young, friend of mine was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer last year. She has undergone chemotherapy and surgery, and is now dealing with radiation and a second round of chemo in advance of more surgery. I’d do anything I could to support her and the scientific work that might one day…
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The Schmooze Klee Drawing Returned to Owner’s Estate by Israel Museum
A drawing by Swiss artist Paul Klee, who was villfied by the Nazis, who also stole his work from Jewish collectors, has finally been returned to its rightful owner by the Israel Museum. According to this AP story, the drawing, entitled “Veil Dance,” had been owned by German Jewish telephone maker Harry Fuld, Jr. When…
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The Schmooze Bidding on a Bacon Statue of Kevin Bacon
Are you a fan of bacon in all its forms? How about a statue of Kevin Bacon — made out of kosher bacon? According to Gizmodo, the owners of a Seattle-based company that makes bacon-flavored condiments (which are, weirdly, both vegetarian and kosher-certified), commissioned an artist to fashion a statue of the actor out of…
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Life Is Eshet Chayil a Hypocritical Prayer?
At Shabbat dinner in traditional Jewish homes the hymn “Eshet Chayil,” meaning “Woman of Valor,” is sung to the woman who runs the household. It concludes with the line “Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.” According to the mysterious group Jewish Women Watching, —…
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Life Play Ball on Yontif? Ask My Mother
Boychik, as a rabid Yankees fan, usually avoids discussing the Mets (or Red Sox) unless they’re losing to his favorite team, but he was so amused by the recent tale of Mets rookie first baseman Isaac Benjamin “Ike” Davis, that he shared it with me. Davis, whose mother is Jewish, and who identifies himself as…
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Life The Allure of Orthodoxy
When I was a student at Tel Aviv University, during my second year of college, I spent a number of Shabbatot and holidays with new friends — young women who had, like me, grown up in the States, and were now newly Orthodox — who were learning how to be religious at Neve Yerushalyaim yeshiva…
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