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 Ordering a Baby Online: Israel’s ‘Google Baby’ Comes to HBO
An independent Israeli documentary that takes a close look at an Israeli firm outsourcing on a global scale every aspect of baby-making has been picked up by HBO and will air in prime time on June 16, according to this article in Haaretz. From Israeli television director and producer Zippi Brand Frank, “Google Baby” takes…
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Life Boy Smells: They’re Not What They Used To Be
Derek Jeter came down my stairs this morning. Well, not the man himself, but his scent. Moments before I see Boychik, I smell him, and these days he smells of the cologne “Derek Jeter Driven.” Boychik, an avid fan of the Yankees, got his mitts on a sample at the World Series Parade in downtown…
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Life When Your Daughter Wants To Wear a Hijab
What would you do if you were an American Christian woman and your 9-year-old daughter decided to start donning the hijab, a scarf completely covering the head and shoulders worn by traditional Muslim women? Writer Krista Bremer faces such a situation with her daughter, Aliyah. In this piece in the current issue of Oprah’s “O…
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Life My Encounter With a Naked Man at MoMA
I went to see the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson and ended up squeezing myself between two naked people. It was a day of unexpected encounters at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. For me, the best art experience is the unanticipated one, and somehow I’d not realized that the much-lauded retrospective of performance artist Marina…
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Life It’s Time to Stop Apologizing for Our Presence
I really like Devra Ferst’s recent Sisterhood post about how women too often precede a question with an apology. And there’s so much more to – unapologetically – say! It took me a very long time to stop apologizing before asking questions myself, to stop feeling wracked with self-doubt about my ability to keep up…
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Life Is It Kooky To Leave Your Child Alone at the Playground?
Is Lenore Skenazy a kook? Skenazy — a Forward contributing editor and columnist — is getting used to being called that, “a moron” and worse for her idea that we should stop helicoptering over our children and leave them more to their own devices. Her latest proposal is that on Saturday May 22, at 10 a.m.,…
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Life Noa Raz, Beaten for Wearing Tefillin, Speaks to The Sisterhood
Noa Raz wasn’t totally surprised when, on May 11, a Haredi man stared at the marks on her arm at Be’er Sheva’s central bus station. The 30-year-old Israeli woman prays each morning wearing a tallit and tefillin and the latter sometimes leaves imprints on her pale forearms. As she waited to board a bus to…
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Life Clever Feminist Art, Courtesy of Drisha
In the mood for clever feminist art that is at once subversive and respectful of Jewish text? Then check out Drisha’s exhibit and afternoon of performances by its Arts Fellows on Sunday at 2 p.m. Drisha, a center for advanced Torah study for women right near Lincoln Center, has a fantastic program for artists of…
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