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Community Israel Is Normalizing Gender Segregation
It had been 50 years since I last traveled to Israel. Much has changed in the start-up nation, including real toilets, delicious and plentiful food, new archaeological excavations and high-tech innovation. There have also been changes for Israeli women — though not all for the better. I recently joined a group of 60 Jewish women…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham and Longtime Co-Creator Jenni Konner Call it Quits
Just six months after Lena Dunham and her longtime boyfriend, musician Jack Anatoff, broke up, Dunham called it quits with her longtime artistic partner, Jenni Konner. Konner and Dunham share a whole family of brain children — The Lenny Letter, HBO’s upcoming show, “Camping”, and “Girls,” the highly acclaimed, highly critiqued show about four women…
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The Schmooze Fox News Falsely Reports Lena Dunham Campaigned for Cynthia Nixon In Underwear
“Fox News Blurs the Facts of a Story to Make an Obscure Point Denigrating Women” is hardly breaking news at this point, any more than “Airplanes Go Up In the Air” is breaking news. But we feel honor bound, and also bound by the cumulative one million hours we’ve spent watching HBO content, to report…
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Life Ruth Messinger: Jewish Organizations Are Way Behind On Gender Equity
Many years ago, when I was in government, Mario Cuomo, then New York’s Governor announced the “Year of the Woman”; we joked that what we needed was not one year but as many years as it would take to realize full gender equality. It did not happen then, and it has not happened yet, despite…
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The Schmooze Aly Raisman Still Struggling To Train After The Effects Of The Larry Nassar Trial
In a recent interview with the New York Post, Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman has confessed that since speaking during Larry Nassar’s sentencing in January, she has “barely been able to work out”. Raisman’s whole career centers on her physical strength and gymnastics training. So the profundity of this statement is indicative of the immense emotional…
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Community Cutting Reproductive Healthcare Hurts Women — And Rejects Jewish Teaching
When I go to my doctor, I worry about many things. Will they find anything new or worrisome? Will I have to suffer through a painful shot? Will they realize I don’t floss? I have never worried whether or not my doctor was using the full range of their knowledge to advise and treat me…
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Recipes Cocktails Dedicated To History’s Unsung Jewish Heroines
The following is an excerpt from “Drinking Like Ladies: 75 Modern Cocktails From The World’s Leading Bartenders.” These sassy broads, and the classic cocktails dedicated to them, are unsung heroines of Jewish history. Peruse through the biographies of these history-making heroines and then mix yourself the cocktail dedicated to them. It’s four o’clock somewhere and…
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The Schmooze Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Mark Twain Award For American Humor
Shockingly, there was apparently an award Julia Louis-Dreyfus hadn’t won yet. Reassuringly, she has now won it. Today the Kennedy Center announced that Julia Louis-Dreyfus will receive the 21st annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The prize is awarded to “people who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the…
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