Hinda Mandell
By Hinda Mandell
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Life If Jewish Women Were Scandalous as Men
What if Jewish women behaved as badly as their XY chromosomal counterparts? What if we were to flip the genders of Eliot Spitzer, Bernie Madoff, Anthony Weiner and Dominique Strauss-Kahn so that it was a Jewish woman who paid for sex, who swindled billions, who sent nudie pics via Twitter and who assaulted a hotel…
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Life What Waxing Really Reveals
Until recently, my relationship with waxing was unemotional. And then I went to a makeup boutique to buy some new foundation. That’s when – during the application of a tint called “Blush Stone,” an incongruous elicitation if ever there was one – that the makeup artist said to me, “We gotta take care of those.”…
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Life Honeymooning at My Parents’ House
I am writing this while on my honeymoon. At my parents’ house in the Boston suburbs. Hardly the stuff of which dreams are made. I married my husband on Cape Cod, so the event felt like a wedding and actual honeymoon wrapped into one. As we journey back to New York post-nuptials, a layover at…
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Life How Celebrity Gawking Reveals Our Deepest Fears
I read with great interest Jordana Horn’s Sisterhood post about the public fascination with high-profile downfalls. That’s partly because I approach scandal from the opposite direction. I don’t think it’s helpful to quash talk about a topic that clearly interests people. I think it’s more helpful to ask why we — the public and the…
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Life ‘To Pee or Not To Pee’ and Other Womanly Dilemmas
A critically wounded woman’s decision to become a single mother; a grandmother’s Holocaust-era story told through live action and animation; and an Incan family’s conversion to Judaism and subsequent move to Israel are among the subjects of this year’s Jewish Women’s Film Festival selections. The one-day event, organized by the National Council of Jewish Women…
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Life In Latest Chapter of Clarence Thomas Scandal, It’s She Said-She Said
Apparently there’s no statute of limitation on scandals. Nineteen years after Anita Hill testified before the U.S. Senate that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, the Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s wife wants Hill to apologize. As has been widely reported, Ginni Thomas left a voicemail at Hill’s Brandeis University office: I just wanted to reach across…
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Life Deborah Tannen on Why It’s So Much Harder To Be Sisters Than Friends
The paperback version of Deborah Tannen’s latest book “You Were Always Mom’s Favorite: Sisters in Conversation Throughout Their Lives”, is just out from Ballantine Books. In this interview, conducted over email, Tannen — a Georgetown linguistics professor, who has studied the quirks and patterns of the “New York Jewish conversational style”— explains why women feel…
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News How Exactly Did I Get Here?
The decorative sign above the toilet seat said it all: “In this house lives an old hunter with the finest deer he’s ever bagged.” Gross, I thought. But also a little funny in the way that some things — like kitschy misogynistic messages painted on wood — can make you laugh despite your best effort…
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