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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for gall bladder treatment
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been hospitalized for nonsurgical treatment of a gallstone infection, but will participate in the court’s oral arguments by teleconference from the hospital. Ginsburg, 87, underwent the treatment for acute cholecystitis, a benign condition, at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the court said in a statement….
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Fast Forward RBG is still working out at the Supreme Court gym
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is working out at the high court’s private gym, with precautions, during the pandemic, her trainer said. “Everybody’s been shut down,” Bryant Johnson told Law 360, a legal news website, this week. “The only reason why I didn’t shut the justice down is because, hey, she…
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Life The RBG exhibit was daunting, not inspiring — until I did some soul-searching
As a left-leaning, Jewish, female millennial, I am the target demographic for the Notorious RBG exhibit, which offers visitors a walk through the beloved Supreme Court Justice’s formidable life. Attending the exhibit, however, I realized that she and I have depressingly little in common. I know that our world is wracked by injustice and we…
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Breaking News Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is ‘cancer free’
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she is cancer free. Ginsburg told CNN Tuesday during a wide-ranging interview that treatment for a localized malignant tumor on her pancreas, discovered in July, was successful. “I’m cancer free. That’s good,” she said in the interview in her chambers. Ginsburg, 86, has been treated…
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Fast Forward RBG Awarded $1 Million Prize For ‘Shaping Human Understanding And Advancement’
(JTA) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been awarded a $1 million prize given annually to a thinker whose ideas “have profoundly shaped human understanding and advancement.” The 2019 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture was announced on Wednesday. The prize, first awarded in 2016, is given by the Berggruen Institute, a Los…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She Kept Planking Through Cancer Treatment
Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continued to do planks and push-ups throughout her recent treatment for pancreatic cancer, she told a crowd at Berkeley Law School on Monday, CNN reports. The 86-year-old endured radiation treatment for cancer over the summer. She has previously survived colon and lung cancer; she also underwent surgery for…
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The Schmooze RBG Wore A Collar With A Torah Verse On The Opening Day Of The Supreme Court
Correction Appended The Supreme Court of the United States opened its new session on Monday, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrived in style. The 86-year-old Justice wore one of her many collars, or jabots, her signature accessory. Monday’s jabot has special significance — it was created by the Jewish artist Marcy Epstein, and woven with…
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The Schmooze Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Feminist Role Models Are Two Jewish Women
In the last month, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for cancer for the fourth time, addressed a crowd of 16,000 in Arkansas, and met her “Saturday Night Live” impersonator, Kate McKinnon. And on Wednesday night, she found time to address her very own tribe. Well-heeled shul-goers, shaking and panting with the near-religious…
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