Rachel Rosenthal
By Rachel Rosenthal
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Life The Rise of the Jewish Single Woman
Oy, the single ladies. In many circles of the Jewish community, this is the cry. Woe to the single women—those who are single by choice and those who are still hoping to get married; those who are divorced, those who are widowed, those who were never partnered—and the children they could be having but aren’t….
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Life Trailblazing Rabbi Lila Kagedan Should Be Judged by Her Work — Not Title
In the past couple of weeks, the Jewish media has been abuzz with the news that Rabbi Lila Kagedan has been hired to work as a part time member of the clergy team at the Mt. Freedom Jewish Center in Randolph, NJ. A recent graduate of Yeshivat Maharat, she has chosen to use the title…
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Life Eight Lights to Keep Jewish Feminists Warm This Hanukkah
It’s dark outside. I know, I’m stating the obvious. But this year, the darkness feels like it is swallowing me. It is not simply that it is often still pitch black when I wake up again the next morning, and already dark when I leave the Beit Midrash every night. This darkness is thick, obscuring…
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Life What’s Wrong With Women Studying Talmud, Rabbi Willig?
Dear Rabbi Willig, We don’t know each other, and in many ways, I am outside of your target constituency. You, after all, are a , an institution I have never attended. In fact, I would assume that there is little we agree on, other than the binding nature of halakha or Jewish law. However, last…
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Life Is Viagra for Women Kosher?
Yesterday, the New York Times an article about a pill that is being marketed as a “female viagra,” to increase female sexual desire for women who might not be feeling aroused as often as they would like, or as they feel they should. The drug is, understandably, controversial, partly because it has a high rate…
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Life What ‘Mean Girls’ Can Teach Us About Shavuot
To the young women of my generation, the movie “Mean Girls” is a modern day classic. The premise is simple: 16-year-old Cady (played by Lindsay Lohan) is dropped into a public school for her junior year after having been homeschooled in Africa. There, she falls in with the popular crowd, first as an anthropological study,…
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Life Belda Lindenbaum’s Revolutionary Vision
The first time I ever opened a Gemara, I was at Drisha, in the Beit Midrash generously endowed by Belda and Marcel Lindenbaum. At that time, a year after graduating college, I had not yet met Belda and Marcel, nor did yet I have any awareness of the fact that some would consider what I…
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Life Is The Value of Modesty A Cover-up for Negative Body Image?
Six weeks before my Bat Mitzvah, I went with my mom to a family friend who knew how to sew to have my dress taken out. I had fallen in love with suit dress — with its beautiful navy color, satin detailing, pearl buttons and bolero jacket — but as a 180 pound, 5’2” almost-13…
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