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Life Why I’m a Feminist for Bernie — and Won’t Apologize for It
I’ve learned something in the last few months. Disagreeing with my sisters – especially my feminist sisters – is not something I’m terribly comfortable with. Since declaring my allegiance to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton I’ve gotten a hell of a lot of side eye (and worse) from people that I…
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Opinion Should a Liberal Jewish Feminist Vote for Hillary — or Bernie?
If Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, she will be the first-ever female presidential candidate from a majority political party in United States history. If Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, he will be the first-ever Jewish presidential candidate from a major political party. What’s a liberal Jewish feminist voter to do? The question of…
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Life Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Who Are You Calling Complacent?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Congresswoman from Florida and Chair of the Democratic National Committee, knows a thing or two about power and politics. And in a recent interview, she acknowledges that her own actions as a leader are viewed differently (and more problematically) because of her gender. So it gave me a bit of whiplash to…
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Breaking News Israel’s Knesset to Hold Pluralist Menorah Lighting
Israel’s Knesset will hold a Hanukkah candle lighting including women and representatives of the Reform and Conservative movements. The lighting, to take place Tuesday, was set up by Knesset member Michal Rozin of the left-wing Meretz party as a response to a state candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall on Sunday that did not include…
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Life A New, Sophisticated Haredi View on Gender
Recent debates about women and the Orthodox rabbinate yielded a range of interesting, impassioned and also banal observations by various Jewish professionals and laypeople. Although sociological and legal arguments abound, a broader philosophical discussion of the nature of gender roles within Judaism is lacking. The assumption in these debates seems to be that the challenge…
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Forward 50 2015 Lori Adelman
It’s been a productive year for Lori Adelman, the executive director at Feministing and associate director for global communications at Planned Parenthood, who made Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in its media section after making The Root 100 2014 list of the nation’s most influential African Americans. Adelman, 29, was raised Jewish in her family’s Conservative…
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Film & TV Chantal Akerman, Pioneering Feminist Filmmaker, Dies at 65
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, a daughter of Holocaust survivors known for her experimental films that closely examined women’s lives, has died in Paris. She was 65. French media reported that Akerman committed suicide. The date and cause are not yet known, according to the New York Times. Her parents were Polish Holocaust survivors, and her…
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Life The Costs of Women’s Synagogue Participation
When my family walked into our Orthodox synagogue on Monday, the first day of Sukkot, we got there in time to see women holding their own lulav and etrog and performing the processional of “hakafot” on the women’s side of the mechitza as the men made the circuit on their side. This tandem march is…
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