Actress and activist Mayim Bialik said that she was “deeply, deeply hurt” by claims that her recent New York Times essay about sexual assault in Hollywood placed blames on victims’ actions. “It has become clear to me that there are people who think that I either implied or overtly stated that you can be protected…
Here at the Schmooze, the Forward’s pop-culture desk, our love affair with Mayim Bialik is an open secret. A child-star neuroscientist with a name out of a Sholem Aleichem story, whose lifestyle brand combines the best in feminism and Judaism? Surely this woman was sent by the Divine to be our blog-y bashert. It was…
Mayim Bialik is the latest celebrity to insert herself into the debate about sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood — and she’s also the latest celebrity to find herself at the center of a fiery backlash over her words. Bialik took part in a Facebook Live video Monday morning to explain what many saw as…
Somewhere out there — I think he is in Brooklyn now. This is a nice Orthodox Jewish boy — now a man. Facebook tells me that he has children, and his wife wears a sheitel, a wig. Who sodomized me against my will when I was 17 years old — 20 years ago. He was…
Actress and activist Mayim Bialik has responded to criticism after she wrote a New York Times essay over the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Some have accused her of blaming victims for their own sexual assaults. Bialik wrote of the pressure to appear attractive that she felt as a teen actress, affecting her self-esteem to this day….
Uvshavtem mayim b’sason mimaynei hayeshua — joyfully, Mayim Bialik has once again visited the fountains of triumph and showered us with the sweet, sweet waters of Jewish tradition! Hallelu. Here are our top ten (there were hundreds) favorite things about her new video, “4 Things Jews Do On Rosh Hashanah”: 1.She always seems kind of…
Dozens of rabbis and community leaders across Judaism’s religious spectrum signed a statement calling for sweeping reforms to Israel’s official religious establishment and its policies. The statement, which was published Friday morning, was written by Reform Rabbi Uri Regev, founder of the Israeli religious pluralism nonprofit Hiddush, and Orthodox Rabbi Marc Angel, the former leader…
(JTA) — Jewish actress Mayim Bialik called out the March for Racial Justice for taking place on Yom Kippur. In a Facebook post Sunday, Bialik complained that the timing of the march against white supremacy, scheduled for Sept. 30 in Washington, D.C., excludes Jews, who traditionally spend Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, fasting and…
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