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Life Israeli Dad Gets Street Harassment Right — Or Does He?
If you’re a woman, chances are that showing a woman walking in New York City for 10 hours resonated with you in some way. The clip, which was seriously debated online, was meant to draw awareness of how problematic street harassment can be. Some were moved. Others dismissed the whole thing. But what would your…
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The Schmooze You Can Now Get Your News From Lena Dunham
Hannah Horvath may not be the best person to give life advice, but Lena Dunham? That’s a different story. The “Girls” creator, producer and actress — and also Emmy-nominee and memoir author — has announced that she will now be publishing a weekly email newsletter, called The idea for the name came from a walkie-talkie misunderstanding…
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Breaking News British Ultra-Orthodox Hold Women-Only Film Screening
An Israeli movie by a haredi Orthodox filmmaker was screened for a women-only audience in London after two scheduled all-female screenings were canceled. A private, invitation-only screening of “Gift of Fire” by Rechy Elias was held Friday afternoon at the northwest London Jewish community center JW3. Orthodox and non-Orthodox women were in attendance, the London-based…
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Opinion The Best Way To Move the Orthodox World
The Orthodox rabbinate will come around to approving same-sex marriage and equal status for women in Halacha, Jewish law. Provided. Provided that the momentum for such equality in the wider society builds to the point where discrimination is so repugnant that the Orthodox rabbinate feels morally compromised. So if you want Orthodoxy to alter its…
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Opinion Actually, Dr. Ruth, the Talmud Does Not OK Rape
On Monday, Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared on the “Diane Rehm Show” and made what have already become widely circulated remarks suggesting that, once a couple is naked and in bed together, consent is considered already granted and irrevocable: “I am very worried about college campuses saying that a woman and a man… can be in…
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Opinion Introducing the Frumqa — Jewish Women Under the Burqa
No, this isn’t a dementor, or a modern art installation. This isn’t even, as you are more likely to expect, a Muslim woman wearing a burqa. It was on a sweltering hot day, of 80 degree weather, that photographer Yakov Lederman saw this sight in Beit Shemesh — a Jewish woman and her two daughters, a…
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Breaking News British Belz Hasidim Bar Women From Driving
The Hasidic Belz sect of Britain has barred women members from driving. A letter sent out last week by the sect’s rabbinic leaders said that allowing women to drive goes against “the traditional rules of modesty in our camp,” the Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday. The letter also said that as of August students would not…
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Culture Yiddish Sex Tips for Girls Find Home in Jerusalem Library
A few months ago, Dr. Yoel Finkelman was browsing through the catalog of the New York auction house Kestenbaum & Company; it’s a regular chore at the National Library’s collections department. He noticed an interesting item. Finkelman, the curator of the library’s Judaica collection, noticed a Yiddish pamphlet titled “Advice for Women and Young Women…
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