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Opinion How My Daughter Helped Me Realize That Women Are More Than Just Victims
I will confess that when I found out I was pregnant almost exactly seven years ago, I prayed, in my furtive post-ultra-Orthodox-atheist way, that I wasn’t having a girl. Not because the happily-every-after-formula in all the stories I’d been told as a child was “and nine months later his wife gave birth to a healthy…
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Opinion A Yeshiva U Rabbi Called Feminists ‘Whores.’ They’re Not Backing Down.
There is a famous scene in the movie “Casablanca” in which Renault asks Rick why he came to Casablanca. “I came for the waters,” Rick says. When Renault reminds Rick that Casablanca is in the desert, Rick answers wryly, “I was misinformed.” I thought of this exchange when I read about recent events at YU’s…
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Opinion The Embarrassing Pay Gap In The Board Rooms Of Jewish Not-For-Profits
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Early this morning, I received an email from a friend who has worked for years with leaders of national nonprofits. “Tell me I read the Forward figures wrong,” she wrote. “I saw no…
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The Schmooze Feminist Icon Pink Is Raising Her Children Without Gender Labels
The celebrated singer-songwriter Pink may be named after a traditionally feminine color, but she won’t be raising her children with gender labels. In an interview about her success and raising children in the Trump era, the performer explained that she and racer Cary Hart run a “very label-less household”. The couple believes in sending their…
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The Schmooze ‘Welcome To Hell’: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Ushers Men Into 2018
Next time you hear a man complaining that in light of the recent spate of sexual assault allegations he is feeling afraid of how he should behave, whom he can trust, or in doubt about our justice system, just quiet him with a few bars of “Welcome to Hell.” The creepy all-girl pop anthem that…
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Opinion No, You Can’t Be A Feminist And A Zionist
Do Feminism and Zionism mix?
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Opinion Zioness Is Here To Stay, So Get Used To Us
You know a three-month old movement is doing something right when it’s been maligned by both neo-Nazis and far-left anti-Semites. Since we launched in mid-August in response to the explicit exclusion of Zionist progressives from social justice movements, Zioness has been hit from all sides. At the Chicago Dyke March, our maiden voyage, we marched…
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Life Why Women’s Torah Commentary Matters Today More Than Ever Before
This has been the year of women claiming agency. We began 2017 marching for our rights in Washington, D.C., and we end the year shifting the national dialogue on sexual harassment and assault. We’ve made it clearer than ever before that our voices must be heard, while asserting our right to hold positions once belonging…
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