Gabrielle Birkner
By Gabrielle Birkner
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Life Prime Ribs: All About Hair; More $#*! Your Moms Say
The first Torah scroll written entirely by female scribes, six of them, has been completed — seven years after it was begun. Danielle Berrin, over at The Jewish Journal’s “Hollywood Jew” blog, thinks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and “The Social Network” writer Aaron Sorkin are hanging out with the wrong Jewish women. Many women of…
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Life Getting Ahead on ‘Boss’s Day’
Today is Boss’s Day. What, you say, isn’t every day Boss’s Day? Well, sort of. In this Q&A, Lilit Marcus, an editor at the women’s site The Gloss and the author of the “Save the Assistants: A Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Workplace,” explains how ambitious working women should (and shouldn’t) mark the…
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Life We Asked; You Answered — The $#*! Your Mom Says
Yesterday, The Sisterhood — inspired by the new television show “$#*! My Dad Says” — asked our readers and Facecbook fans to send in their mother’s (or grandmother’s, step-mother’s or mother-in-law’s) favorite sayings. They chimed in with these gems. Some are attributed; others were sent in anonymously. • “With every generation an improvement.” – Rose Magder…
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Life Prime Ribs: Is the Yeshiva Girl Fall Fashion’s Muse?
Fall fashion may be drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: yeshiva girls. Forbes has released its list of the 100 most powerful women in the world — and a Jewish woman has the No. 2 slot. That would be Irene Rosenberg, the CEO of Kraft Foods — makers of Cheez Whiz, Kool-Aid, Velveeta, Chips Ahoy…
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Life Prime Ribs: Will Israel Ban the Burqa?
Israel is mulling a ban on face veils. The editor of the online Jewish women’s magazine 614 is out with a new book about how single women can stay sane in our wedding-obsessed culture — not to mention our reproduction-obsessed faith. Abstinence-only sex education is dead. Long live abstinence-only sex education? After an extended court…
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Life Kvelling in Brownstone Brooklyn — and Beyond
Kvelling (or boasting) about their children — “She aced her nursery school entrance interview, my little genius!” — is one of the things Jewish moms and dads do very well. So it’s fitting that a new website for parents of young Jewish children went with the title Kveller. The site is part service, with information…
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Life Audio Slideshow: 80 Years of Feminist Art
Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism at the Jewish Museum in New York — reviewed here in the Forward — features canvases, and a few sculptures and decorative objects, influenced by several waves of feminism over the past 80 years. The exhibit’s curator, Daniel Belasco, spoke recently with The Sisterhood about the Jewish Museum’s history…
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Life Prime Ribs: No Women on Main Street; Is Birth Control ‘Preventive’?
In the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, attempts to ban women from the main street during Sukkot has prompted protests. The “lactivist” community is calling for a boycott of Old Navy because the retailer is selling “Formula Powered” onesies. As Deborah Kolben points out on Kveller, Jewish tradition “recognizes that breastfeeding is both a…
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