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 #FreetheNipple for the Win
Thinkstock Ladies and gentleman, the nipples have been freed. A few weeks ago Facebook quietly changed its policy on allowing pictures of breastfeeding moms. A Facebook representative told CNET: “We have always allowed breast-feeding photos — it is natural and beautiful and we know that it’s important for mothers to share their experiences with others…
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Life Daughters of Russ and Daughters
The new documentary “The Sturgeon Queens” explores the history and legacy of Russ and Daughters, the Lower East Side’s famed purveyor of smoked fish which has been appetizing its way into our mouths and hearts for one-hundred years now. The Sisterhood’s Elissa Strauss spoke with writer and producer Julie Cohen about why she decided to…
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Life Why Mila Kunis Should Be Grateful for ‘Pregnant’ Dads
Getty Images // Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, actress Mila Kunis delivered a mock PSA announcement to future fathers of the world calling on them to quit using the phrase, “we’re pregnant.” “You’re not pregnant,“ she said. “Do you have to squeeze a watermelon-sized person out of your lady hole?…
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Life Take Your Sons to the Dishwasher Day
Thinkstock I’m part of the first generation to have experienced “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” founded by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation in 1992. We were taken to (mostly) our Dad’s offices, allowed to scribble on yellow legal pads with a bevy of ballpoint pens and highlighters, and then later taken for tuna…
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Life Teaching Horror of Shoah Rape With Crochet
Gil Yefman’s TumTum For nearly six months last year, Dr. Rochelle Saidel, founder and executive director of Remember the Women Institute, and artist Gil Yefman met weekly to talk about a topic deemed untouchable by many in their respective communities of academia and art: rape during the Holocaust. Saidel, who along with Dr. Sonja Hedgepeth,…
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Life Sheryl Sandberg Leans Out of Hotel Worker Meeting
UNITEHERE Local 26 Earlier this week, a group of housekeepers, nightclub servers and other employees from a Hilton DoubleTree hotel in Cambridge, which is on a property owned by Harvard, gathered outside the gates of the university while Sheryl Sandberg delivered a speech to this year’s graduates. It was a last ditch attempt by these…
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Life Susan Reimer-Torn on Coming Back To Jewish Life
Joan Roth In her new memoir “Maybe Not Such a Good Girl: Reflections on Rupture and Return,” Susan Reimer-Torn chronicles her return to Jewish life in New York after years of living as a formerly-Orthodox woman in France. Elissa Strauss spoke with Reimer-Torn about freedom, healing and what the current generation of formerly-religious writers like…
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Opinion Should the Bible Have a Trigger Warning?
You know what could use a trigger warning? The bible. If any book merits a note of caution it is the one that is colloquially referred to as good. In the recent debate over whether colleges should warn students of material that deals with potentially post-traumatic stress syndrome inducing topics like war, sexual violence, racism,…
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