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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Women Threatened for Demanding Israel Political Voice
(Haaretz) — The backlash against ultra-Orthodox women who are daring to demand a public voice in government didn’t come as a big surprise, but it did come swiftly and harshly. Last week a formal campaign called “No Female Candidate, No Female Vote” was launched to pressure ultra-Orthodox political parties Shas and the United Torah Judaism…
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Culture 159 Thoughts We Had While Watching ‘The Red Tent’
When Anita Diamant’s novel “The Red Tent” hit bookstores in 1997, Jewish women couldn’t devour it fast enough. The book focuses on Jacob and Leah’s daughter Dinah, who only gets one sentence in the Bible. Famously, it tries to upend the narrative of her rape, giving her a voice and a sense of agency that…
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Life Keeping Orthodox Girls Dancing in Dark
(Haaretz) — It’s like homecoming weekend for Orthodox Jewish kids in Israel, minus the football game. The young members of the religious youth movement/scouting movement Bnei Akiva spend a full month preparing for what can only be described combination of a pep rally and a color war, culminating in a big ceremonial performance. It is…
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Forward 50 2014 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The “Notorious R.B.G.” isn’t going anywhere, and she’s certainly not staying quiet. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, frail in appearance and feisty in everything else, waved off calls for her retirement this year and proved her power on the U.S. Supreme Court, even when penning notable dissents. She issued a scathing rebuttal to the court’s majority,…
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Forward 50 2014 Ilana Glazer
In the first episode of “Broad City,” the hit Comedy Central show that premiered earlier this year, comedian Ilana Glazer, 27, posts a Craigslist ad that reads: “We’re just 2 Jewesses tryin’ to make a buck.” Later that day she winds up cleaning the apartment of a man wearing a diaper, with her best friend,…
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Forward 50 2014 Chaya Appel-Fishman
Sheryl Sandberg’s gospel of female self-help reached the Orthodox world in 2014, thanks to The Jewish Woman Entrepreneur — a not-for-profit organization that provides resources for traditionally observant Jewish women launching and maintaining their own businesses — helmed by Chaya Appel-Fishman, 25. Founded just three years ago, The JWE had its second annual conference in…
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Forward 50 2014 Stosh Cotler
Tell someone to picture the CEO of a Jewish not-for-profit organization and they probably won’t envision a woman with a tattoo, a black belt in kung fu, a history of demonstrating against Israeli policies and experience dancing at a sex club. But Stosh Cotler has all that and more. Cotler, 46, took over as CEO…
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Opinion 7 Best Jewish Comebacks to Catcalling
I’m sure you’ve seen it by now. A video made by the anti-street harassment group Hollaback shows a woman, the Jewish actress Shoshana Roberts, walking around in New York City getting unwanted attention from men. The video struck me because, when I moved to New York ten years ago, two things happened: street harassment became…
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