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 Why I Don’t Post Photos of My Baby on Facebook
I haven’t posted a picture of my baby on Facebook yet. And I am not sure I ever will. This kind of absence on Facebook isn’t new for me. I didn’t post pictures of my wedding on the site, and most certainly did not post a close-up of my engagement ring. But the difference is…
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Life Ultrasound Parties?
The latest in popular pregnant lady trends: sonogram parties. Yep, according to Lela Davidson writing for the Today Show website, parents are now hiring ultrasound technicians to come to their homes where they will provide the, eh, entertainment for the hosts’ friends. Apparently, there are companies sprouting up around the country, in places like Florida,…
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News Another Problem That Has No Name
It was bound to catch up to us at some point: the problem behind the problem with no name. In her seminal 1963 book, “The Feminine Mystique,” Betty Friedan described this nameless dilemma: As each suburban wife “shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies,…
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Life On Veronique Pozner’s Pink Lipstick
Towards the beginning of the Forward’s Naomi Zeveloff’s touching and keenly observed portrait of the grieving Pozner family she includes a small but evocative detail: mother Veronique Pozner’s pink lipstick. At the center of everything is Veronique. On her right wrist is a tattoo she and Danielle both got the day after Noah died: a…
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News 5 Reasons Feminists Are Happy It’s 2013
It was only a couple of years ago that some people, especially women of a certain age, were surprised, even shocked, when I told them what I did for a living. “Feminist blogger?!? People still care about that stuff?” The best-case scenario: They treated my work as a curiosity. The worst? They didn’t see it…
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Life Right Time to Have Kids?
Is there a right time to have kids? This is the question brought to my mind, and many others, by Judith Shulevtiz’s much discussed new piece on older parents in the New Republic. In the story, Shulevtiz outlines all the reasons it is bad to have kids too old, which really means north of 35….
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Life What Obama and Romney Left Out
While everyone is up in arms about Romney’s “binders full of women” comment (which I found awkward, but ultimately inoffensive), they are overlooking the big issue that was left out of the debate on how to get rid inequality in the workplace. I am talking about maternity leave and affordable childcare. Between Obama and Romney,…
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Life Becoming Baal Teshuva
In his new novel, “The World Without You,” Joshua Henkin takes a close look at the interior life of the Frankel family as they come together for a weekend at their country house in the Berkshires. They are there for a memorial service for their brother and son Leo, an interpid foreign correspondent who died…
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