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 Drisha’s Arts Fellows’ Evening
Wednesday evening, Drisha’s Arts Fellows are presenting a wide range of kinds of artwork – visual, musical, dance, dramatic and literary – at an event held at the Lincoln Center-area yeshiva for women Feel free to file this under “blatantly self promotional,” (as an Arts Fellow this past year I’m reading some of my work)…
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Life From Bench to Bimah, Women Rule
This article, looking at whether women rule differently as judges than men do, ran recently in the New York Times. Renowned female judges – who happen to be Jewish – have themselves struggled with the question. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in ruling over a case involving the strip search of an adolescent girl,…
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Life Why Is a Chabad Rabbi Advocating Violence?
I was pleased to see Manis Friedman representing the Chabad point of view in the “Ask the Rabbis” section of the current issue of Moment magazine – that is, until I read what he actually said to the question of how should Jews treat their Arab neighbors? The rabbi, whose work I enjoyed since reading…
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Life Jon and Kate, Come to Shul With Us
Like much of America, it seems, I am currently drawn to watching the TLC reality show “Jon & Kate Plus Eight.” The marriage of Jon and Kate Gosselin, the parents of eight adorable children, appears to be crashing while we spectate. The husband and wife are physically and emotionally distanced by their anger and frustrations,…
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Life Initiating a Conversation About Modesty
The New York Times reports that the upshot of a recent freewheeling panel discussion is that the judiciary wants its members to be more, well, judicious in their dress. There is a move afoot, apparently, to have lawyers be more appropriately shod and dressed during courtroom proceedings than they have recently been. Should there be…
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Life Yeshivat Maharat and the Deafening Silence of the Orthodox Establishment
One of Sara Hurwitz’s sons recently said more, related to the recent conferral of her new title of Maharat, than many others publicly have. Four-year-old Zacharya told her “only boys can be rabbis.” Hurwitz laughed it off — explaining that her kids don’t get to see her working in her position of leadership at the…
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Life American Girl To Unveil Jewish Doll
The pre-tween set is abuzz with the rumor that the newest American Girl doll is Jewish. Officials at the Wisconsin-based company confirm that she is, indeed, a Jewish character, calling her “a lively girl from New York City,” but have embargoed her name and most other story details until May 29th. American Girl dolls, for…
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Life Where Serious Torah Study for Women Is a Top Priority
There were a couple of notable things about the annual dinner held on Mother’s Day by the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. The dinner celebrated the 30th anniversary of Drisha — a small but influential center for women’s advanced Torah study where I’m concluding a year of learning as an Arts Fellow. Drisha’s currently most…
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