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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Culture Receiving the Original Text Messages
As I sat next to Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz at a recent bar mitzvah reception, our chat turned to the Amazon Kindle. Ehrenkrantz, who is president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, is considering getting one. The Kindle is a slim white device that is about the height and width of a book and has a screen…
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Life Everyone Needs a ‘Jewish Momma’ — Even ‘Real Housewives’
My current guilty pleasure is “The Real Housewives of New York City. ”Watching their “reunion” on Bravo Tuesday night was like watching a sack full of expensively bejeweled, super-skinny, couture-clad cats in a sack claw at each other. But hilariously. Going by their names, looks and mannerisms — hey, if we can’t stereotype ourselves, who…
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Life Auburn Honors Buchdahl — Rabbi, Cantor, Mother, Korean American
Angela Warnick Buchdahl is many things: a rabbi and cantor, a Korean-American, the mother of three children age 9 and under, and an agent of social change. This month, she will also be among the honorees of Auburn Theological Seminary at its annual Lives of Commitment Breakfast, to be held May 28 at the Waldorf-Astoria…
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Life Where’s the Jewish Outrage When It Comes to Pay Equity?
Last week was Equal Pay Day, marking how long into the year a woman in this country must work to have earned the same as a man. Is that really still true? We women earn only 78 cents for every dollar that men earn for the same work? I was shocked by the facts when…
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Life Fat Is Still a Feminist Issue; Five Questions for Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach is known for being the first to say, loudly and in print, “stop hating your bodies and start listening to them.” The London-based psychotherapist’s 1978 book, “Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-Diet Guide for Women” broke new ground with the message that women were subjected to tremendous cultural pressures about their bodies…
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Life The Jewish Soul of ‘The Golden Girls’
Maude is gone and Dorothy Zbornak is dead. Bea Arthur, who played those brassy, gutsy characters on the sitcoms “Maude” and “The Golden Girls,” died of cancer over the weekend at her home in Los Angeles. I was a little too young to appreciate “Maude” when it was broadcast in the mid-1970s, but confess a…
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Life The Market for Jewish Eggs
Retail is sluggish; real estate prices are down; but the market for Jewish eggs seems not to be suffering — even though it costs the couples receiving them between $40,000 and $50,000. In New York, payment to the women who “donate” their eggs is between $5,000–$8,000; the rest of the money goes to pay medical…
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Life Bedtime Reading: Meditations on Sex
Two new books relating to sex, sexual identity and Judaism are on their way to your bedside table. While for the past few years books for Christians about keeping the spark alive in bed have been big sellers in Christian publishing, books focusing on the Jewish connection — Rabbi Shmuley aside — are a relatively new…
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