Links for Later: The Melania-Gown Edition
-Rachel Lubitz has a list of fashion designer who are OK with, ambivalent about, or against dressing Melania Trump. The Jewish designer (and Holocaust survivor’s daughter) Diane von Furstenberg, who at one point sold a “Melania” dress, is among the OK-with-it. Huh.
-Michelle Goldberg defends Keith Ellison from charges of anti-Semitism.
-Irin Carmon takes a closer look at anti-abortion legislation in Ohio.
-Cathryn J. Prince reports on a panel discussion featuring pioneering women rabbis.
-Alanna Evans interviews author Summer Brennan, who (temporarily) dodged Twitter trolls by (temporarily) swapping out her own face for her brother’s as her Twitter avatar.
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