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 The Truth About Modern Orthodox Jews and Gender
Elana Sztokman is a fabulous writer whose pieces are always an asset to The Sisterhood and the rest of The Forward (and I get a gold star for having made the shidduch). But in her new blog post, Jewish Feminists Launch RCA Protest, Elana gets a few important things wrong. The first is that she…
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Israel News A Webzine Worth Mentschen
It used to be that women, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf, needed to have a room of their own, to carve space out of a male-dominated world in which to find and share their own voices. Today, it seems, men need a room, as well. So the Conservative movement’s Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs has started…
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Life New Men’s Club Publications Make Room for Men’s Voices
The Conservative movement’s Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs has a new Web magazine, Mentschen. Co-editor Dr. Robert Braitman,, a Massachusetts pediatrician, is a former FJMC president, and hopes that it will both provide a forum for virtual conversation around topics meaningful to Jewish men, and that it will attract younger men to the organization, he…
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Life Digest: Yanklowitz on Feminism, and the Fruit of Egalitarian Marriages
The Sisterhood Digest: • It is a rare thing for a man to publicly identify as feminist and to advocate on behalf of equitable pay, women’s lay and professional leadership, and increased paid maternity leave at Jewish organizations, but in The New York Jewish Week, Shmuly Yanklowitz does just that. In his essay “Jewish Feminism…
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Life ‘Queen Bee’ Author Rosalind Wiseman on Bullying’s New Realities
Bullying is back in the headlines, as it is all too often, with the suicide of a teenager who was victimized by her schoolmates. Nine of them were charged last week with felonies. More can be read about it in this Sisterhood post. The Sisterhood spoke with author Rosalind Wiseman, whose 2002 book “Queen Bees…
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Life Phoebe Prince and the Consequences of Bullying
It’s horrifying that a 15-year-old girl named Phoebe Prince killed herself after being mercilessly bullied by other high school kids in South Hadley, Mass. Horrifying, but sadly not unique. Criminal felony charges have been filed against seven girls and two boys who are alleged to have been her main tormentors, but no adults are being…
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Life Of Oranges and Coffee Beans: Feminist Seder Rituals Decoded
Come seder night, Jews the world over will be sharing age-old traditions, like drinking four cups of wine and hiding the afikoman. But at what seems like a growing number of seder tables, the old traditions are being joined by newer ones which reflect the lives and voices of women. Perhaps the best-known new tradition…
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News Critics Say It Will Be Harder To Spot Trends With No National Jewish Survey
In the coming weeks, some 120 million Americans will fill out their U.S. Census forms, providing the government with information that will be used to track demographic trends and to direct funding where it’s needed. But this time, unlike during three of the last four decennial U.S. Census cycles, there will be no parallel nationwide…
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