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 In Defense of Michelle Obama’s Arms
Joyce Burnick has a problem with Michelle Obama. It’s her arms. As she recently put it in the New York Times style section: “The first lady has made it unacceptable for women to appear in public with covered arms… Not all women are blessed with the first lady’s workout discipline or genetic gifts. That is…
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Life Atone? But I’m Expecting!
This is the third in a Sisterhood series on women, apologizing and Yom Kippur. So we are now in the Days of Awe, a time of reconciliation and repentance for us Jews. This process requires a real willingness to take personal inventory of where you are right now and the strength and courage to actually…
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Life NY Times, Mothering is Not a Style Story
The New York Times blog Motherlode provides a smart and nuanced look into the pressing parenting issues of the day. Led by KJ Dell’Antonia, the blog covers things like work-life balance, breastfeeding, divorce and infertility. What is absent is things like shedding the baby weight, nursery decoration tips, or why moms with $1,000 strollers do…
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Life Vogue’s Edith Wharton Mistake
In the September issue of Vogue, yes the 916-page one, there is a feature on Edith Wharton, including a 2-page essay from Colm Toibin and a 16-page fashion layout shot at Wharton’s former estate in Lenox, Massuchusets. While the concept of the piece isn’t terrible, the execution of it was a total missed opportunity to…
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Culture Torah Games and the Future of Learning
Rabbi Owen Gottlieb believes that the future of Jewish education is in games — both video and analog, like card and board games. Gottlieb, 38, is a doctoral candidate in education and Jewish studies at New York University and is the director and founder of ConverJent, which designs and develops games for Jewish learning and…
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Life Mayor Bloomberg’s Mammy State
Bloomberg’s new plan for encouraging breastfeeding by way of restricting the distribution of formula in hospital maternity wards has incited a lot of resistance. And rightly so. There are better ways to help women choose breast over bottle than limiting their options or shaming them into it. At Slate’s Hanna Rosin writes: The question here…
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Life Tavi Is No Angela Chase
Tavi Gevinson is cool. Really cool. There’s no denying it. Only 16, she started a popular fashion blog at age 11, now runs Rookie, an online magazine with a readership of 1 million inspired by the ‘90’s alt-chick bible Sassy, and has been profiled by the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the New York Times…
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Life Rashida Jones, Jewish Feminist Hero
You think it would be easy for feminists to just say no when others challenge their choices, but, in reality, most women still have to yield to the will of others in what is still largely a man’s world in order to get things done. Well Rashida Jones, star of NBC’s hilarious (and nonchalantly feminist)…
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