Sarah Seltzer
By Sarah Seltzer
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Life What’s At Stake Tonight
Tonight, as we bite our nails waiting for the election results to come in, it feels to me like there’s more at stake than just the vital policy issues I blogged about this morning. Also hanging in the balance are the type of campaigns we encourage candidates to run as well as how much the…
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Life After Sandy, Why Voting Matters
If you, like me, spent any time this weekend in the areas of New York City that were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, or if you even spent time just reading about these folks’ plight, it may be a difficult and frustrating task to turn your thoughts back to the endless media noise around the election….
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Life JWA Spotlights Jewish Women’s Activism
Like all large groups of people, American Jews are complex and irreducible despite some aspects of shared culture. Recently, the Jewish Women’s Archive made an interesting choice to focus a new curriculum on Jewish involvement in the labor and civil rights movements — without cheerleading or focusing solely on women’s involvement — thereby shining a…
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Life Sandy Makes Me Worry About My Future Family
My mom has been a global warming true believer since I can remember. As an avid lover of winter and a careful listener of Al Gore, she thought the evidence was obvious: Our grandparents had snow from Thanksgiving to Passover while we have less and less. My brother and I used to tease her for…
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Life Pregnancy After Rape Is A WHAT?
During the High Holidays, I wrote about the escalating number of politicians saying insulting things to women and then offering false apologies. But in the two months or so since then, the phenomenon hasn’t faded — in fact, it’s worsened. First, State Rep. Roger Rivard said some girls “rape so easy.” Then, Illinois Rep. Joe…
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Life Q&A With Novelist Yona Zeldis McDonough
“A Wedding in Great Neck:” Family Mishegas Arrives Just in Time for the Nuptials Yona Zeldis McDonough’s new novel “A Wedding in Great Neck” takes place over the course of a single day, as a Jewish family gathers for the lavish wedding (to a handsome Israeli) of Angleica, the aptly-named youngest daughter who at least…
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Life Swinging for Women
Last night’s Foreign Policy debate was all about swing — the candidates taking final swings at each other and aiming for the hearts and minds of swing voters. And conventional polling wisdom tells us who the most important “swing voters” are, particularly for the President: that’s right, the women. David Gergen wrote about it at…
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Life Binders Full of Women
After watching two long debates in which the only “women’s issue” raised was in the context of two men’s faith, I had little hope going into last night’s town hall. And wow, was I surprised. The evening felt like all women, all the time. A strong, enthusiastic and even charming Barack Obama emerged out of…
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