Elissa Strauss has written for the Forward over a number of years. She is a regular contributor to CNN, whose work has been published in a number of publications including The New York Times, Glamour, ELLE, and Longreads.
Elissa Strauss
By Elissa Strauss
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Life She’s No Michelle
Apparently inspired by the reunion of Destiny’s Child at the Super Bowl, Sara Netanyahu showed up at the swearing in of the 19th Knesset in a form-fitting — well actually more like skin-tight — lace dress with a see-through top. While we all love a first lady who can part with convention, it gets a…
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Life When Do We Become ‘Women?’
When do you become a woman? As in, someone that your friend or colleague actually refers to as a “woman.” It is is certainly not after your Bat Mitzvah (will get back to that later), nor is it when you graduate from high school, or even college. Today, the age of a woman who most…
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Life Why We Have So Many Clothes
Feel like you have nothing to wear despite a closet full of clothes? Lisa Wade at the blog Sociological Images has written a compelling post explaining why. Her theory is that women need to constantly dress the part, whether at work, at a party or at a family event. We can’t be too “flirty” when…
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Life How Divorce Affects Faith
A new paper entitled “Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?” from the Center for Marriage and Families looks at the spiritual life of children of divorce as adults. It found that those whose parents split are less likely to feel religious or act religiously as adults than those whose parents stayed married. The report…
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Life Goodbye to ‘Working Moms’
To all those moms out there who click their heels when they leave their children and head to work, you are not alone. According to a recent survey by Working Mother magazine, written about on Forbes.com here, more than half of women say they work for more than financial reasons and are predominantly career oriented….
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Life Want To Attract a Guy on JDate?
Want to attract a Jewish guy online? Let’s start with the bad news: Don’t be accomplished, be aspirational. Don’t sound mature. Don’t talk too much. Don’t be tall. Don’t be fat. Don’t be funny, because you will come off sarcastic. Don’t mention work, or any professional accomplishments. And for the the good news: You CAN…
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News A New Kind of Schlemiel
Move over, hapless on-screen Yids, there’s a new Jew in town. He goes by the name of Schmidt and is single-handedly changing what we think when we think of a schlemiel. One of four main characters on the Fox sitcom “New Girl,” which is in the middle of its second season, Schmidt is the garrulous,…
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Life Talking While Jewess
On the recent episode of Lexicon Valley, a podcast on Slate about “the mysteries of English,” podcaster and NPR On the Media host Bob Garfield caused quite the controversy when he took on what he finds to be an incredibly irritating verbal tic among young women. “It’s almost exclusively among women and young women at…
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