Gabrielle Birkner
By Gabrielle Birkner
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Life Sisterhood 50 Nominations Pour In
My colleagues and I like to joke that Newsweek’s publishing of an annual “most influential rabbis” list makes about as much sense as the Forward publishing an annual list of “most influential newsweeklies,” which, of course, we don’t. In a more sensible move, the Forward’s women’s issues blog, The Sisterhood, last week put out an…
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News The Sisterhood 50
The Sisterhood, the Forward’s women’s issues blog, has twice called attention to the chronic underrepresentation of women on Newsweek’s annual “50 Most Influential Rabbis” list. Compiled by Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton and his friend Gary Ginsberg, this year’s Newsweek list had only six women on it — and most of them were on the…
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Culture Video: The Arrest of Women of the Wall’s Anat Hoffman
Watch the video of the July 12 arrest of Anat Hoffman, the chair of Women of the Wall, as she and other members of the group make their way from the Western Wall plaza to Robinson’s Arch: The Sisterhood conducted the first interview with Hoffman following her arrest. Read it here.
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The Schmooze Forward Takes Home 11 ‘Jewish Pulitzers’
The Forward took home a record 11 honors at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association, held this year in Scottsdale, Ariz. The Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, the Jewish media’s top honor, were presented June 16 at a banquet dinner, attended by writers, editors and publishers from dozens of…
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Life Digest: Lesbian Mothers, Well-Adjusted Kids; A 5-Days-After Pill?
The Sisterhood Digest: • For all of you with two Jewish mothers — or two mothers, period — consider yourself lucky: A new study [shows][1] that children raised by lesbian mothers have fewer behavioral problems than their peers. • An Egyptian court has ruled that men who marry Jewish Israeli women — and children born of those unions…
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Life Digest: The Politics of the Ultrasound, SATC2 Musings
The Sisterhood Digest: • Israel has become a major battleground in the Democratic primary fight between incumbent Jane Harman and challenger Marcy Winograd. Both women vying to represent California’s 36th congressional district are Jewish, but Winograd is much more critical of Israeli policy than is her opponent, and she has accused Harman of being beholden…
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Life Digest: Should Kagan Join JDate? Is Sarah Palin a Feminist?
Sisterhood Digest: • Maureen Dowd, writing that Elena Kagan “as resigned herself to a cloistered, asexual existence,” suggests that the nominee for the Supreme Court join JDate. • Australia says no to a burqa ban. Read our recent Sisterhood post on recent efforts to ban the veil. • The online Jewish women’s magazine 614 is…
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News The Column That Spawned a Century of Agony Aunts and Uncles
Long before Eppie and Pauline Friedman — better known by their respective pseudonyms, Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren — penned their first columns, before Dr. Joyce Brothers, Randy “The Ethicist” Cohen and Emily “Dear Prudence” Yoffe became household names, before Dr. Laura Schlessinger and “Judge Judy” Sheindlin brought their bullheaded brand of advice to…
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