Will Ivanka Trump’s role in her father’s administration merely leave crumbs for other women? Or will she be instrumental in draining — nay, vacuuming — the swamp? A participatory performance art piece in Washington DC’s Flashpoint Gallery, “Ivanka Vacuums,” asks viewers to throw breadcrumbs at a tall, blonde woman, a doppelgänger for Ivanka Trump. The…
Senator Bernie Sanders put out a public apology to female staffers who said they were harassed or discriminated against while working on his 2016 presidential campaign. “To the women on my 2016 campaign who were harassed or mistreated, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for speaking out. I apologize,” he tweeted Thursday. “We…
The morning of the 2016 New York Democratic primary, a local voter named Ray came by Bernie Sanders’ South Bronx campaign headquarters where I was volunteering. He asked for a few T-shirts from the campaign. A few minutes later, in a back corner of the office where I had gone to fetch him the T-shirts,…
The former senior rabbi of a historic Reform synagogue in Baltimore has been expelled by the movement’s rabbinical association two months after being fired by the board for over unspecified allegations of the movement’s ethical code, Rabbi Steven Fink was fired in October after the members of Temple Oheb Shalom, a large, 165-year-old community, voted…
Yael Stone told the New York Times that while they were co-stars in a play in 2010 and 2011, the then 59-year-old Geoffrey Rush exposed himself to the then 25-year-old Jewish actress, sent her sexual text messages and once watched her shower. In a statement to the New York Times Rush denied the claims, saying…
The Civil Service Commission said Thursday it had closed the case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman for the foreign media, David Keyes, who had been accused by at least 14 women of sexual misconduct. The allegations led Keyes to take leave from his post and he reportedly will resign. “There is no evidence or…
Over the weekend, New York Magazine’s female-focused vertical “The Cut” published an excellent profile by Allison P. Davis. It provoked a digital reunion of what must be the most diverse band of allies: loud liberals, alt-righters, millennials, dads, Midwesterners, art snobs, sexual conservatives, animal rights activists, and internet trolls. In other words, the stunning coterie…
(JTA) — Philip Green, a British fashion mogul, is accused of sexually harassing and at times abusing in a racist manner at least five of his employees and then buying their silence, a lawmaker said. The accusations surfaced Thursday in the British House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British parliament. A member of…
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