‘Salon’ Preview: A Feminist Icon Goes There
Leave it to feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin to spice things up. On the new episode of The Jewish Channel series “The Salon,” a conversation about the so-called “war on women” leads Pogrebin to discuss the power of the female orgasm:
And in another show highlight, fellow panelist Deborah Feldman, the author of the best-selling memoir “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” asks Pogrebin if she thinks her controversial book would have been taken more seriously in Orthodox circles if she were a man. Here’s her answer:
Joy Sisisky, the executive director of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York also joins the discussion, moderated by hosts Jane Eisner, the Forward’s editor, and Rachel Sklar, of the forthcoming online women’s network The List.
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