Gabrielle Birkner
By Gabrielle Birkner
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Life Prime Ribs: Eschewing ‘SlutWalks’; Defending ‘Sister Wives’
In light of an email tirade in which Tea Party congressman Allen West called Democratic National Committee chairwoman (and proud Jewess) Debbie Wasserman Schultz “vile,” and wrote that she has proved that she is “not a Lady,” The Daily Beast’s Michelle Goldberg pulls back the curtain on what she sees as West’s history of misogynistic…
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Culture On the Air, Jewish Women Talk Ambition, Sports, Circumcision
The Sisterhood, of course, isn’t the only place where “Jewish women converse.” The blog also co-produces with Lilith magazine a Women’s Roundtable podcast. And Forward editor Jane Eisner co-hosts with Rachel Sklar The Salon, a Jewish Channel television show that brings together Jewish women with a wide range of perspectives. On the latest Women’s Roundtable,…
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Opinion A Weiner By Any Other Name…
Shall we add to Anthony Weiner’s list of sins the mispronunciation of his own name? “It’s pronounced ‘wy-ner’ or ‘way-ner,’” my Austrian grandmother insisted, when I asked her what she thought about the scandal engulfing the New York representative. “Wiener” — pronounced wee-ner — “like my cousin, Herbert, that means Viennese; Weiner, like the congressman,…
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Life Prime Ribs: Farewell, Oprah; the (Haredi) Queen of the Petit Four; Gender-Bending
Jews may have long ago perfected the art of over-sharing, but it was Oprah who turned millions of other Americans onto the concept. She signed off Wednesday, after 25 years of hosting her wildly popular television talk show. Haaretz profiles Efrat Libfroind is an ultra-Orthodox mother of six — and Israel’s reigning queen of the…
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News At BYU Seder, Mormons Dip, Eat, Sing Their Own ‘Dayenu’
Inside the student center, the tables were set with all of the Passover staples: bitter herbs, haroset, parsley sprigs and salt water, a Haggadah at each place setting. By 6:15 on a recent Friday evening, the hall had filled up with college and graduate students, alumni, faculty and a smattering of “townies” — more than…
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News The Man Behind ‘Miral’ Defends His Work, and No One Stopped Him
As a young boy, Julian Schnabel accompanied his parents to a grand Broadway theater to see a screening of “Exodus” — the 1960 melodrama that depicts the founding of the state of Israel. During a scene in which Jewish refugees launch into a celebratory rendition of “Hatikvah,” Schnabel recalls how moviegoers, his family included, leapt…
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Life Approaching a Somber Anniversary, With a Commemoration — and a Celebration
One week from today marks 100 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. It’s often called “the fire that changed everything,” because the 146 deaths that it caused — its victims were mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant women — became a catalyst for much of the labor activism that helped bring about sweeping workplace safety…
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Life Prime Ribs: International Women’s Day at 100
Today is the 100th annual International Women’s Day, commemorating the achievements of women, past and present. This year’s theme: “Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women.” To mark the occasion, The Guardian sheds light on the lived experiences of women around the world — including those who…
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