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The Schmooze Check Out Lena Dunham’s Vogue Cover
Lena Dunham is on the cover of a fashion magazine. And not just any fashion magazine, but the mother of all fashion magazines. The girl who only days ago was on E!’s Worst Dressed list for her canary yellow Zac Posen dress at the Golden Globes is now on the cover of Vogue. The “Girls”…
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Culture The Problem With ‘Girls’ Is Men
I am not a girl, but “Girls” is about me. Like the characters on the HBO show — which begins its third season January 12 — I am in my 20s, white, middle class and live in Brooklyn. I work in a creative field, have friends who are actors and baristas, and sometimes, to my…
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Opinion Sarah Silverman Hailed As Prophetess in Israel
Comedian Sarah Silverman has been called many things, but never a prophetess. Until yesterday, when she was given prophetic credentials in the magazine section of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot. The accolade comes from an interview with her sister, Jerusalem-based Reform rabbi (and one of the Forward 50 list of important Jews) Susan Silverman, which…
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The Schmooze Get Ready for Lena Dunham on the Cover of Vogue
(JTA) — Not only is “Girls” coming soon to a small screen near you (that’s Sunday January 12th on HBO, in case you haven’t yet set a phone alert)—it’s also hitting the newsstands (that’s where you can find magazines printed on glossy paper, in case you were born anytime after 1990.) According to Page Six,…
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News Ultra-Orthodox Women Act on Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Gospel
Sheryl Sandberg has come to ultra-Orthodox Monsey, N.Y. — or at least her gospel has. The walls of the Orthodox school assembly hall in which her message is delivered are bare white, but for three posters with Hebrew writing, and six larger-than-life paper teddy bears. But the roughly 100 women who fill the hall on…
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Opinion How Good Is Israel’s New Abortion Policy?
A doctor performs a sonogram on a pregnant woman on November 9, 2011. / Getty Images It’s not every day that progressives get to see encouraging policy changes coming out of Israel, so we should celebrate them when they do come along — even if they don’t go quite as far as we might like….
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Life 14 Jewish Women To Watch in 2014
Here’s a list of 14 Jewish women to watch in 2014. Some of them are rising stars, others are big names already who are likely have a lot of weight on their shoulders in 2014. Full disclosures: This is a biased list, tilted towards the media and social justice sectors including several organizations I’m loosely…
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Life Throwback Thursday: The Cosmetics Queen
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, a weekly photo feature in which we sift 116 years of Forward history to find snapshots of women’s lives. Khaye Rubinstein, founder of the eponymous and enormously successful cosmetics firm Helena Rubinstein Inc. was born on December 25, 1870, in Krakow Poland, the eldest of eight daughters. She briefly dabbled in…
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