Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish women and women’s issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish women and women’s issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish women and women’s issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish women and women’s issues.
Ivanka Trump took an unexplained break from the campaign trail that coincided with the release of a bombshell video in which her famous father bragged about assaulting women — and several women came forward to claim that Donald Trump groped them. But now Donald Trump’s daughter and chief ambassador to women has returned to the…
New York is a man’s city, or at least seems like that from the names of so many places of note — Columbus Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Bryant Park, the Ed Koch Bridge. As the writer Rebecca Solnit points out, the city itself was named for a male: the Duke of York, later known as King…
Like most such institutions, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie boasts an extensive permanent exhibition of artifacts from the Shoah, along with recollections of Illinois residents who experienced or witnessed the atrocities in Europe 70 years ago. But that is only part of its mission. The other part is to transform the…
Today in misogynist news, “Girls” showrunner Jenni Konner penned a note for Lenny Newsletter about a hideous encounter that went down between Lena Dunham and a male television producer. The story began when Dunham was “cornered” by the producer while out to eat with a few “Girls” co-workers. According to Konner, he asked Dunham to…
Assemblyman Dov Hikind dove back into Brooklyn’s Hasidic swimming pool wars, sending a letter to the New York City Parks Department that demands it reverse a plan to limit women-only hours at the Metropolitan Recreation Center in Williamsburg. The city Parks Department granted the single-sex swimming hours as an accommodation to the area’s Hasidic women,…
— Jared Kushner praised his wife Ivanka Trump for raising issues pertaining to women and families at the Republican National Convention in July. “It took real courage for Ivanka to stand before 35 million Americans, including many who had not previously focused on these issues before, to help advance substantive policies that will dramatically improve…
Jennifer Weiner, the massively popular popular-fiction writer who also has a column in the New York Times and a profile in the “New Yorker,” was disappointed at not also getting selected for Oprah’s Book Club. That disappointment, which Weiner expressed in a few since-removed Facebook posts (hereis the one she’s settled on, for now at…
“Eishet Chayil.” The woman of valor. We never sang it in my home — it wasn’t part of our Shabbat tradition — but I’ve sat many times throughout my life at tables where the song was sung, the old dirge melody, ostensibly in honor of the woman of the house. Singing the song, I was always told,…
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