Sarah Seltzer
By Sarah Seltzer
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Life What Christopher Hitchens’ Writing Left Out
For several days now, the Internet and print’s finest journalists have been reflecting on the life and death of one of their own, Christopher Hitchens. Whenever someone famous dies, it’s nigh impossible not to be compelled by the eulogizing process, as those who knew the deceased try to process their grief and memories so immediately,…
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Life After Plan B Decision, Our Own Plan B
Last week I was happily monitoring the news and reading all sorts of positive stories about how the FDA was poised to approve Plan B, one-step emergency contraception, for unrestricted over-the-counter use. Imagine a system in which terrified young women who had experienced a condom breaking, a failed sexual negotiation, or any other contraceptive mishap…
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Life Crisis Pregnancy Centers Try Converting Jews
Crisis Pregnancy Centers, or CPCs, are problematic for many reasons. These centers, which are designed as sneaky alternatives to abortion clinics, have been shown time and again to give women misleading, medically inaccurate information and to almost always have a conservative Christian agenda. The number of CPCs far outweighs the number of places where women…
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Music ‘Wild Flag’ Jewesses Keep Rockin’ Hard
I recently went down to the Bowery Ballroom to see the rock band Wild Flag perform. They’re a fairly new all-female rock group consisting of two of Sleater-Kinney’s Jewish former members, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, and two other pioneering female rockers, Rebecca Cole and Mary Timony. I’d been listening to their new album, “Wild…
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Culture ‘Protect Life Act’ Continues the War on Women
While the economy stagnates and many additional issues ought to be at the top of their agenda, House Republicans are still fixated on policing the uteruses of America. The “War on Women,” the name given to an onslaught of state and federal laws that have restricted abortion, birth control and women’s health care in an…
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Life What the HPV Vaccine Flap Is Really About
Thanks to a [heated debate][1] between GOP Presidential Candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry over his 2007 executive order mandating that girls in Texas receive the HPV vaccine (though the state legislature later overturned his order), it’s been a topic of much conversation. But much of the buzz has been based on innuendo and rumor,…
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Life ‘Dirty Dancing’ Remake and Female Hollywood
Elissa Strauss hopes that a new remake of the movie “Dirty Dancing” keeps our beloved heroine, Baby, Jewish. In addition to preserving Baby and her family’s ethnic authenticity, which is important in grounding the film in a real milieu, I should add that I hope the remake keeps the essential, devastating abortion plotline, which is…
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Life The Cultural Implications of Our Book Choices
Hurricane Irene forced President Obama and his family to cut their vacation on Martha’s Vineyard short, sending them back to Washington a few days earlier than they had planned. But even a forecast of bad weather hadn’t stopped criticism of President Obama’s vacation reading list. When it began circulating on blogs, I was incensed. How…
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