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Community I Was Assaulted Twice By The Same Known Predator. The Police Told Me There Was Nothing They Could Do.
We’ve heard about how Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony on Thursday was triggering for millions of women. I am one of them. I was attacked in a parking garage in Jerusalem when I was 23. It shattered my sense of safety, my then-idealistic image of life in the Jewish state, and for a time, my…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman Delivers Rage-Fueled, Emotional Kavanaugh Appeal
Everybody’s Jewish fairy godmother Sarah Silverman has waved her magic wand — words — again, making everything a little bit better (though the orange pumpkin remains discouragingly orange.) Dressed in her finest patriotic tracksuit, high-ponytail swinging and eyebrow shapes devastatingly precise, she addressed America’s senators ahead of what will now be the final vote for…
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The Schmooze Bette Midler’s ‘Women Are The N-Word Of The World’ Tweet Was Inspired By John Lennon
Bette Midler’s got a big mouth. Sometimes, what comes out is gold. And sometimes, it’s just dreck. The Divine Miss M landed in hot water yesterday afternoon when she tweeted: Midler’s fury and pain seem so genuine. But she also seems out-of-touch to the point of blithe, unconscious racism. The problem here: black women are…
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Fast Forward Trump Mocks Al Franken’s Senate Resignation Over Sexual Misconduct Claims
(JTA) — President Trump mocked former Senator Al Franken for resigning quickly from office when faced with a sexual misconduct allegation. “That guy was wacky. Boy, did he fold up like a wet rag,” Trump told a rally Thursday night in Rochester, Minn. to cheers. “Man, he was gone so fast,” The New York Post quoted…
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News Is SAR Reckoning With A Sex Abuse Scandal — Or Looking For A Scapegoat?
Robert Eckmann finally decided ten months ago to email his middle school about the principal who molested him in the 1970s. He couldn’t have known the consequences. His private message has led to revelations about Stanley Rosenfeld, who the Forward found had admitted to molesting hundreds of boys over a decades-long career in Jewish education….
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Life The Talmud Calls For Fasts To Repent For Sexual Impropriety. It’s Time To Bring Them Back.
The Jewish holidays can put our ethical fiber at risk, the preeminent Talmudic commentator Rashi writes. His comment appears in tractate Kiddushin (81a), where the rabbis of the Talmud quote a somewhat enigmatic Aramaic idiom: sakba de’sha’ata rigla. Rashi interprets it to mean that, ethically, holidays are particularly precarious periods of the year, since men…
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The Schmooze Jimmy Kimmel, Dodging Louis CK Questions, Demonstrates How ‘Nice Guys’ Hamper #MeToo
The #MeToo movement needs the well-intentioned rich as badly as any other movement. So it gives us no pleasure to call them out! But Jimmy Kimmel, a mostly-nice-guy if there ever was one, gave a masterclass on Wednesday on how to pay lip-service to the idea of eradicating sexual harassment while subtly undermining efforts to…
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The Schmooze Louis C.K. Gave Another Surprise Set — And Joked About Underage Sex
Louis C.K. had a good Yom Kippur, apparently. The disgraced 51-year-old comedian, who in November 2017 admitted to sexual misconduct after The New York Times reported on accusations from five women, appears to have attained full forgiveness. From himself. C.K. went down during the aftershocks of the Harvey Weinstein accusations, as reporters zeroed-in on misconduct…
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