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Life Do Powerful Women Really Make Best Friends?
According to Ann Friedman in her post “Shine Theory: Why Powerful Women Make the Best Friends,” over at NYMag.com, we should seek out women who are more together or successful than we are. She writes: Approaching and befriending women who I identify as smart and powerful (sometimes actively pursuing them, as with any other crush)…
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Breaking News ‘Girls Enjoy Rape’ Judge Loses Backing in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday withdrew his support of Judge Emeritus Nissim Yeshaya for the presidency of the Likud party’s court, over a comment he had made earlier this week that some women “enjoy rape.” Netanyahu made the decision after Army Radio revealed the comment in a report Wednesday morning. Yeshaya, a former district…
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Opinion When Gorgeous Israeli Soldiers Go Bad on Facebook
When Israeli female soldiers get saucy, some Israelis can’t help but applaud. Columnist Halleli Jabotinsky published newly surfaced photographs on her blog, and declared that they actually performed an “important service” by humanizing the Israeli military and also looked “cute.” In the photographs, which went viral in social media, new recruits exposed their thongs under…
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Breaking News Half-Naked Israeli Soldiers Share Racy Pics on Facebook
A group of female Israeli soldiers were disciplined by commanders after they posed half naked and posted the photos on Facebook, the Associated Press reported. The teenage recruits were shown with their Israel Defense Forces fatigues stripped off expoing their underwear and back sides in one photo. Another showed a group of five young women…
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Life Judy Blume’s ‘Tiger Eyes’ Comes to Big Screen
My favorite Young Adult novels when I was a young reader were the ones that I now think of as “my summer of death and kissing” novels. Sound morbid? It’s not, really. It’s about a certain kind of melancholy grandeur. The way I see it is: If art, like life, boils down to sex, death…
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Life Stop It With the Millennial Stereotypes Already
Everyone is talking about me. They’re analyzing my behavior and criticizing my attitude (namely my narcissism). They’re pitying my inability to connect with people in a “real” way. They’re worried about my job prospects and financial future, but they champion my optimism and are in awe of my resiliency. Oh, and by the way, I…
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Life Beatriz is Dying: Religion’s Interference Endangers Women’s Lives
The old second-wave feminist slogan goes: “Not the church; not the state; women must decide our fate.” The horrifying case occurring in El Salvador today is an example of both church and state brutally interfering in the endangered life of a woman for the sake of misogynistic ideology. Beatriz is a young mother in heavily…
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Life Q&A With A Modern Day Matchmaker
Rachel Garfinkle, 29, an ultra-Orthodox stay-at-home mom in Cleveland, Ohio, was married to her husband Michael in 2003. Her cousin, who also happened to be Michael’s best friend, set them up. As the norm goes in her community, they were married after five dates. Since then, Garfinkle has looked for opportunities to make matches for…
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