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Life
Social Justice means Justice for Women

This year, I knew a month in advance what I would be doing to mark November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. I am affiliated with a variety of feminist organizations, plus I am a graduate of Barnard College and a university faculty member in gender studies, but this…

By Ilana Blumberg Dec 14, 2012 | 4 min read
Life
Let’s Blog About Sex

It has never been the Jewish way to avoid talking about sexuality. Even the Torah abounds with narratives of sex and desire. Sometimes the eroticism is subtle, as with Jael beckoning Sisera into her tent and covering him with a blanket before driving a stake into his head. Other times it is so blatant that…

By Monica Osborne Dec 12, 2012 | 4 min read
Breaking News
Were Ethiopian Women Forced Into Contraception?

Israeli and Jewish aid officials are denying an Israeli TV report alleging that Ethiopian immigrant women have been coerced into taking contraceptive shots. The report, which aired Saturday night on Israeli Educational Television, charged that coercive contraception is behind a 50 percent decline in the Ethiopian birth rate in Israel over the last decade. Ethiopian…

By JTA Dec 11, 2012 | 2 min read
Life
December Angst and Hanukkah Manicures

December is a complicated time to be a Jew in America. I annually find that once the holiday season hits full swing, all the Christmas gushing, tree-trimming, “what do you want this year?” asking and red and green everything makes me a little… bah humbug. I start getting more sympathetic to Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge than…

By Sarah Seltzer Dec 10, 2012 | 2 min read
News
Women Still Lag Behind

The Forward’s fourth annual survey of Jewish not-for-profit organizations shows little change in communal leadership or compensation, or in the gender gap that has women still lagging far behind the national trends in salary and representation in the upper echelons of Jewish communal power. The number of women in leadership roles grew slightly, and the…

By Maia Efrem and Jane Eisner Dec 10, 2012 | 4 min read
Life
Sexism-Free Israeli Politics Too Much to Ask?

Is it too much to ask for some sexism-free Israeli political analysis? We all know that politics can get rough and tumble, and that Israeli pundits are not known for verbal restraint. But still, does a columnist have to throw gratuitous sexist remarks into an article on the Labor Party slate just because, well, just…

By Renee Ghert-Zand Dec 7, 2012 | 3 min read
Life
What’s With the Lame Hanukkah Parodies?

Hanukkah begins on December 8 this year, but you probably don’t need to have it on your calendar to know that. As in recent years, the onslaught of corny holiday song parodies will have already tipped you off. Perhaps the forerunner of this genre was Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song,” which debuted on Saturday Night Live…

By Johnna Kaplan Dec 7, 2012 | 3 min read
Life
‘Les Miz,’ the All-Female, All-Jewish Version

I’m not a theater buff. “West Side Story” is the only musical with which I have more than passing familiarity. So when a friend sent me an email invitation to see her perform in a community theater production of “Les Miserables,” I nearly passed it over. But upon further inspection, I realized this was no…

By Rachel Rosmarin Dec 6, 2012 | 3 min read

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