http://www.jewpi.com Jewish Press International Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:36:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jewpi.com/three-ways-not-to-celebrate-womens-equality-day/ http://www.jewpi.com/three-ways-not-to-celebrate-womens-equality-day/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:35 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/three-ways-not-to-celebrate-womens-equality-day/ As second wave feminism gathered peak velocity forty years ago, the late bombastic and behatted Congresswoman (D-NY) Bella Abzug persuaded Congress to designate August 26th as Women’s Equality Day . It recognized the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that in 1920 gave all U.S. women the right to vote. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/gloria-steinem-an-unheralded-glbt-advocate/ http://www.jewpi.com/gloria-steinem-an-unheralded-glbt-advocate/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:46:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/gloria-steinem-an-unheralded-glbt-advocate/ As I watched HBO’s incisive documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words , one irony became clear instantly: Gloria Steinem is an icon who is utterly uncomfortable with the whole idea of being an icon. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/ultra-orthodox-photoshop-of-horrors-round-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/ultra-orthodox-photoshop-of-horrors-round-2/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:52:25 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/ultra-orthodox-photoshop-of-horrors-round-2/ In May, the Hasidic Jewish newspaper, Der Tzitung , made a lot of people angry by photoshopping Hillary Clinton out of a photo in the name of tzniut , or modesty. Within days, the incident spawned a fabulous internet meme where people photoshopped women out of iconic images. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewesses-for-suffrage/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewesses-for-suffrage/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:24:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewesses-for-suffrage/ On August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibiting any citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex was ratified. Today, 91 years later, we take a look back at the Jewish women who dedicated their lives to women’s suffrage in America and around the world. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/best-of-the-rest-link-roundup/ http://www.jewpi.com/best-of-the-rest-link-roundup/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:42:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/best-of-the-rest-link-roundup/ Don’t miss the premiere of the HBO Documentary, “Gloria: In Her Own Words ” on August 15th at 9PM EST. The Women’s Media Center is celebrating this event with a video contest : describe your vision for the future of feminism in a 2 minute video. Gloria Steinem also made headlines by calling for a [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/justice-kagans-first-year-on-the-bench/ http://www.jewpi.com/justice-kagans-first-year-on-the-bench/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:06:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/justice-kagans-first-year-on-the-bench/ Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is inarguably a Jewess with attitude – not to mention clout and intelligence. Justice Kagan, who was sworn into office on August 7, 2010 , has just wrapped up her first year as an Associate Justice on the country’s highest court, and what a year it’s been. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/roseanne-for-president-2012/ http://www.jewpi.com/roseanne-for-president-2012/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:48:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/roseanne-for-president-2012/ Last Thursday on “The Tonight Show,” Roseanne Barr announced her candidacy for President in 2012. Inspired by Sarah Palin (who she claims is stealing her act), Roseanne plans to run as a member of the “Green Tea Party” on the platform of “no taxes, the forgiveness of student loans and all debts and the use [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/sharing-stories-inspiring-change-lessons-from-the-institute/ http://www.jewpi.com/sharing-stories-inspiring-change-lessons-from-the-institute/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:34:16 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/sharing-stories-inspiring-change-lessons-from-the-institute/ Ask any one of my friends or family members: in the weeks leading up to JWA’s Institute for Educators, I was a mess. As the dishes piled up on my desk at the office and my eyeballs crossed from looking at spreadsheet after spreadsheet of catering orders and flight information, a battle between stress and [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-mengedarrah-for-tisha-b%e2%80%99av/ http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-mengedarrah-for-tisha-b%e2%80%99av/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:11:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-mengedarrah-for-tisha-b%e2%80%99av/ I wanted to write an Eating Jewish post about Tisha b’Av, yet as I started looking through my various cookbooks, I noticed that most of them had no mention of the holiday. It was often missing from the index and even recipes containing ingredients that would usually be included in a dish prepared on Tisha [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jwa-summer-reading-staff-picks/ http://www.jewpi.com/jwa-summer-reading-staff-picks/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:24:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jwa-summer-reading-staff-picks/ August is here, and with it the last few weeks of rest and relaxation before the holidays, school, and general hustle and bustle of fall. What better time to take a moment and explore some of the remarkable stories on jwa. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tisha-bav-and-911/ http://www.jewpi.com/tisha-bav-and-911/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:46:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tisha-bav-and-911/ This was originally posted at Mamash and Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. “A day of darkness and gloom; a day of cloud and shadows; spread like soot over the hills…their vanguard a consuming fire, in their wake a devouring flame” These are the words of the Hebrew prophet Joel. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-shari-lewis/ http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-shari-lewis/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:34:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-shari-lewis/ Today in 1998 , children’s television favorite Shari Lewis, a puppeteer who created the characters Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse, passed away at the age of 64 from cancer. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/rep-gabrielle-giffords-returns-to-vote-on-debt-ceiling/ http://www.jewpi.com/rep-gabrielle-giffords-returns-to-vote-on-debt-ceiling/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:26:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/rep-gabrielle-giffords-returns-to-vote-on-debt-ceiling/ Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the bill to raise the debt ceiling. While the bill itself may not have made everyone happy, the appearance of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sure did! Rep. Giffords returned to the House for the first time after being shot at a rally in January. After a long and difficult recovery, [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/some-things-we-missed-july-link-roundup/ http://www.jewpi.com/some-things-we-missed-july-link-roundup/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:29:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/some-things-we-missed-july-link-roundup/ Aurora Mendelsohn of Rainbow Tallit Baby discusses the use of the word “egalitarian” in different aspects of Jewish life on Jewschool. She writes, “I could not help channeling Inigo Montoya; “Egalitarian…You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/black-and-jewish-%e2%80%9cgot-a-star-of-david-on-my-grill%e2%80%9d/ http://www.jewpi.com/black-and-jewish-%e2%80%9cgot-a-star-of-david-on-my-grill%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:28:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/black-and-jewish-%e2%80%9cgot-a-star-of-david-on-my-grill%e2%80%9d/ I’m not usually a fan of parodies. That’s not to say I don’t like humor – au contraire! But like Leah once wrote for JWA , I, too, often find parodies to be uncreative, offensive or both. Still, even I was taken in by the latest pop culture parody to hit the web. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/gay-jewish-new-yorkers-mazel-tov-to-the-newlyweds/ http://www.jewpi.com/gay-jewish-new-yorkers-mazel-tov-to-the-newlyweds/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:32:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/gay-jewish-new-yorkers-mazel-tov-to-the-newlyweds/ Maybe you’ve heard: As of last Sunday, same-sex marriage became legal in the state of New York. The law, which passed in June, went into effect over the weekend. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-myra-kraft-jewess-with-attitude/ http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-myra-kraft-jewess-with-attitude/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:16:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-myra-kraft-jewess-with-attitude/ Last Friday, a temple in a Boston suburb was filled to overflowing. Among the 1500 or so people present were the National Football League’s 2011 MVP and the host of NBC’s hit show, “The Celebrity Apprentice,” the Presidents of the oldest Catholic Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/amy-winehouse-dead-at-27/ http://www.jewpi.com/amy-winehouse-dead-at-27/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:28:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/amy-winehouse-dead-at-27/ Today British singer Amy Winehouse passed away at the age of 27 . She was found dead in her home in London. The cause of death is yet unknown, but considering Amy Winehouse’s very public struggle with substance abuse and mental illness, there is an almost universal assumption that her death was somehow substance-related. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/institute-of-medicine-recommends-that-birth-control-be-covered-by-private-insurers/ http://www.jewpi.com/institute-of-medicine-recommends-that-birth-control-be-covered-by-private-insurers/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:58:28 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/institute-of-medicine-recommends-that-birth-control-be-covered-by-private-insurers/ When I was a young adult and ready to start on the birth control pill, I found that its cost was not covered by my health insurance. Paying the retail price was onerous. It didn’t seem right that insurance wouldn’t cover contraception, though it did cover the cost of giving birth and possibly even abortion. [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/julie-rosewald-americas-first-woman-cantor/ http://www.jewpi.com/julie-rosewald-americas-first-woman-cantor/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:26:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/julie-rosewald-americas-first-woman-cantor/ She wrote a book. She was an actress. She sang opera. She became a professor. She toured the world by herself. She paid her own way. She was a musical superstar. She rode a bike around San Francisco. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jwas-institute-for-educators-making-it-all-about-the-learning/ http://www.jewpi.com/jwas-institute-for-educators-making-it-all-about-the-learning/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:32:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jwas-institute-for-educators-making-it-all-about-the-learning/ Last week I was able to spend a week learning from the wonderful people at the Jewish Women’s Archive as they were teaching us how to use their online archive in our schools, especially the Living the Legacy curriculum. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/rep-allen-west-tells-rep-debbie-wasserman-schultz-to-act-like-a-lady/ http://www.jewpi.com/rep-allen-west-tells-rep-debbie-wasserman-schultz-to-act-like-a-lady/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:06:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/rep-allen-west-tells-rep-debbie-wasserman-schultz-to-act-like-a-lady/ Yesterday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and Jewess with Attitude) reproached Rep. Allen West on his opposition to raising the debt ceiling and his support of the “Cut, Cap, and Balance” vote. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/harry-potter-four-progressive-lessons-for-the-jewish-community/ http://www.jewpi.com/harry-potter-four-progressive-lessons-for-the-jewish-community/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:52:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/harry-potter-four-progressive-lessons-for-the-jewish-community/ Last weekend the eighth and final Harry Potter movie hit theaters. In the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling created a magical alternate universe. Neither a utopia or dystopia, her magical world is fraught with real-world complexity. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/dorothy-fields-put-the-broad-in-broadway/ http://www.jewpi.com/dorothy-fields-put-the-broad-in-broadway/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:56:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/dorothy-fields-put-the-broad-in-broadway/ Last Friday marked the 106th anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Fields , the first woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the only woman who holds an uncontested spot in the boys’ club that is credited with creating the Great American Songbook. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-shabbat-bread-done-differently/ http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-shabbat-bread-done-differently/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:44:08 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-shabbat-bread-done-differently/ When I think of Shabbat dinner, one of the first things that comes to mind is the sweet, dense challah that I love so much. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-thing-about-rings/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-thing-about-rings/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:36:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-thing-about-rings/ Upon her arrival in Israel this week, a friend of mine picked up this pretty, functional necklace :     Sara Feld’s Ring Saver Pendant features the outline of Israel inside a heart – but it’s also got a secret use! The hooked side of the heart serves Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/update-from-jwas-institute-for-educators/ http://www.jewpi.com/update-from-jwas-institute-for-educators/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:52:05 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/update-from-jwas-institute-for-educators/ On Sunday afternoon, 23 women and one [brave] man arrived in suburban Boston to spend four days at JWA’s 2011 summer Institute for Educators. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/tillie-lewis-more-than-just-about-tomatoes/ http://www.jewpi.com/tillie-lewis-more-than-just-about-tomatoes/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:36:13 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/tillie-lewis-more-than-just-about-tomatoes/ One of the ingredients that is a staple in my kitchen cupboard is canned tomatoes. I will almost always have a can or two around in case I decide I want to make a quick tomato sauce or a pizza, and I especially rely on them throughout the majority of the year when local tomatoes [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/irene-a-collection-of-stories-and-poems-from-a-life-lived-courageously/ http://www.jewpi.com/irene-a-collection-of-stories-and-poems-from-a-life-lived-courageously/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:58:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/irene-a-collection-of-stories-and-poems-from-a-life-lived-courageously/ Her writings are archived in the Minnesota Historical Society. The Minneapolis Public Library has a chair in her name. But you may never have heard of Irene Levine Paull, eldest daughter of Russian immigrants raised on a windy hill called “Little Jerusalem in Duluth, Minnesota,” above the cold waters of Lake Superior. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/miss-etta-and-dr-claribel-a-new-look-into-the-lives-of-the-cone-sisters/ http://www.jewpi.com/miss-etta-and-dr-claribel-a-new-look-into-the-lives-of-the-cone-sisters/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:18:31 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/miss-etta-and-dr-claribel-a-new-look-into-the-lives-of-the-cone-sisters/ Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s and 60s, we got our doses of high culture at the Baltimore Museum of Art . The National Gallery was only an hour away, but I don’t remember visiting it until I was in college. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/bat-mitzvah-a-balancing-act/ http://www.jewpi.com/bat-mitzvah-a-balancing-act/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:00:15 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/bat-mitzvah-a-balancing-act/ A few months back, I dragged my 12-year-old, Harry-Potter-enthusiast sister to go with me to see the new Disney princess movie Tangled (which retells the Rapunzel story). In one part of the film, Rapunzel has just escaped from the tower against her mother’s wishes and is encountering the World, and her independence, for the first [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/domestic-abuse-%e2%80%9cthat-doesn%e2%80%99t-happen-here%e2%80%9d-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/domestic-abuse-%e2%80%9cthat-doesn%e2%80%99t-happen-here%e2%80%9d-2/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:50:23 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/domestic-abuse-%e2%80%9cthat-doesn%e2%80%99t-happen-here%e2%80%9d-2/ I confess that even at age 26, my usual reading list consists of young adult science fiction novels, usually set in the future (see: The Uglies series, The Hunger Games series, The Mortal Instruments series, and so on. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/domestic-abuse-%e2%80%9cthat-doesn%e2%80%99t-happen-here%e2%80%9d/ http://www.jewpi.com/domestic-abuse-%e2%80%9cthat-doesn%e2%80%99t-happen-here%e2%80%9d/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:36:07 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/domestic-abuse-%e2%80%9cthat-doesn%e2%80%99t-happen-here%e2%80%9d/ I confess that even at age 26, my usual reading list consists of young adult science fiction novels, usually set in the future (see: The Uglies series, The Hunger Games series, The Mortal Instruments series, and so on. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/natalies-baby-who-cares-if-the-fathers-not-jewish/ http://www.jewpi.com/natalies-baby-who-cares-if-the-fathers-not-jewish/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:52:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/natalies-baby-who-cares-if-the-fathers-not-jewish/ Last week, the tabloid world went abuzz over news that Natalie Portman had given birth to her first child, a baby boy fathered by Benjamin Millepied. Portman and I have had a tumultuous relationship over the years. Had this news broken back when I was a young lad 13 years of age, I’d have been [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/in-shifras-arms-does-not-reflect-a-jewish-divide-on-abortion/ http://www.jewpi.com/in-shifras-arms-does-not-reflect-a-jewish-divide-on-abortion/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:02:14 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/in-shifras-arms-does-not-reflect-a-jewish-divide-on-abortion/ A year ago, Washington Jewish Week reported on a new crisis pregnancy center (CPC) called In Shifra’s Arms . Unlike the vast majority of CPCs, which are typically funded and run by Christian organizations or churches, In Shifra’s Arms strives to serve women in the Jewish community. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/who-is-frida-kahlo/ http://www.jewpi.com/who-is-frida-kahlo/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:42:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/who-is-frida-kahlo/ Tomorrow we celebrate the 104 th birthday of Frida Kahlo , a Mexican artist known for her striking self-portraits. Kahlo’s work was largely influenced by pain after a bus accident left her with permanent disabilities, making her an inspirational figure from a disability point of view. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/what-we-missed-june-link-roundup/ http://www.jewpi.com/what-we-missed-june-link-roundup/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:02:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/what-we-missed-june-link-roundup/ Is it just me, or did June fly by? Here are some things that happened: We celebrated, discussed, and lamented the reality of women in the workplace: Jill Abramson takes on one of the most important roles in American journalism [Forward ] Sarah Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/natalie-portman-and-mila-kunis-make-the-same-movie/ http://www.jewpi.com/natalie-portman-and-mila-kunis-make-the-same-movie/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:50:58 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/natalie-portman-and-mila-kunis-make-the-same-movie/ Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, the Jewish stars of the acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan, have apparently made two different versions of the same movie. As Blind Film Critic so clearly depicts in this trailer mashup of No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits, these films are identical right down to the camera angles. Read [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/when-synagogues-downsize-women-rabbis-are-the-first-to-go/ http://www.jewpi.com/when-synagogues-downsize-women-rabbis-are-the-first-to-go/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:44:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/when-synagogues-downsize-women-rabbis-are-the-first-to-go/ Rabbi Charni Flame Selch lost her job when her synagogue, Bnai Emet Synagogue in St. Louis Park, MN, merged with a nearby Minnetonka congregation. A recent article in the Star Tribune suggests that the economic recession is making the road even harder for female rabbis. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/forget-barbie-dress-gertrude-stein-and-alice-b-toklas-instead-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/forget-barbie-dress-gertrude-stein-and-alice-b-toklas-instead-2/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:54:11 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/forget-barbie-dress-gertrude-stein-and-alice-b-toklas-instead-2/ Adding to the various portrayals of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas that are part of San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum’s current “Seeing Gertrude Stein” exhibit, reviewed recently in the Forward, are a set of paper dolls of the two women. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/new-yorks-big-day/ http://www.jewpi.com/new-yorks-big-day/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:34:19 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/new-yorks-big-day/ We were thrilled to see gay marriage pass in New York this weekend, just in time for the release of Lesléa Newman’s new book, Donovan’s Big Day . Lesléa Newman is the author of the classic children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies , which has helped a generation of childern see their families represented in [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/reinventing-rituals-june-a-month-of-pride-and-same-sex-marriages-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/reinventing-rituals-june-a-month-of-pride-and-same-sex-marriages-2/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:52:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/reinventing-rituals-june-a-month-of-pride-and-same-sex-marriages-2/ June is full of irony: not only is June Pride month, but it is also the unofficial start to wedding season. So many are still fighting for equal marriage. As I write this, lawmakers in Albany are struggling to garner enough votes to make same-sex marriage legal in New York state (see resources to get [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/annie-londonberry-and-the-bicycle-as-a-vehicle-of-social-liberation/ http://www.jewpi.com/annie-londonberry-and-the-bicycle-as-a-vehicle-of-social-liberation/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:34:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/annie-londonberry-and-the-bicycle-as-a-vehicle-of-social-liberation/ Over the past couple years, we have witnessed the rise of an eco-friendly, politically progressive bike culture in the US. In March, 2011, Maria Popova wrote for the Atlantic : “As much as we love bike culture and everything bikes stand for, we may have underestimated the profound significance of the bicycle as a cultural [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-sharon-kleinbaum-stands-up-for-gay-marriage-in-the-face-of-jewish-prejudice/ http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-sharon-kleinbaum-stands-up-for-gay-marriage-in-the-face-of-jewish-prejudice/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:54:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/rabbi-sharon-kleinbaum-stands-up-for-gay-marriage-in-the-face-of-jewish-prejudice/ Yesterday a scuffle broke out between a group of Rockland Hassidic men and Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah. The incident occurred during a protest outside the New York state senate where a gay marriage bill is currently under debate. Reported by the Times Union (hat tip to Jezebel.com ) the scuffle was [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/we-remember-esther-m-broner/ http://www.jewpi.com/we-remember-esther-m-broner/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:10:22 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/we-remember-esther-m-broner/ We were saddened to wake up to the news that Esther M. Broner passed away yesterday. A beloved novelist, playwright, ritualist, and feminist writer, Esther M. Broner was born on July 8, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/meet-jaclyn-friedman-jewess-with-attitude/ http://www.jewpi.com/meet-jaclyn-friedman-jewess-with-attitude/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:14:30 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/meet-jaclyn-friedman-jewess-with-attitude/ I recently had the pleasure to sit down for brunch with Jaclyn Friedman, Executive Director of Women, Action and the Media and co-editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. Jaclyn Friedman is writer, speaker, activist, and rising star in the current feminist community. She’s also a “Jewess [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/about-circumcision-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/about-circumcision-2/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:08:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/about-circumcision-2/ A proposal to ban circumcision will be on the San Francisco ballot this November. As a Jewish Mama, my response should fall somewhere along the lines of outrage and a head-tisk. And as a bleeding heart Mama, my response should be somewhere in the range of agreement and an apology to my son. I whole-heartdely [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jackie-hoffman-sits-down-with-judy-gold-at-the-92-street-y/ http://www.jewpi.com/jackie-hoffman-sits-down-with-judy-gold-at-the-92-street-y/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:23:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jackie-hoffman-sits-down-with-judy-gold-at-the-92-street-y/ Jackie Hoffman is one of my favorite Jewish comedians. She joined Judy Gold, Cory Kahaney, and Jessica Kirson as a host in JWA’s film about funny Jewish women, Making Trouble . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/shoshannah-stern-takes-a-silent-stand-against-sexual-violence-2/ http://www.jewpi.com/shoshannah-stern-takes-a-silent-stand-against-sexual-violence-2/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:04:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/shoshannah-stern-takes-a-silent-stand-against-sexual-violence-2/ The deaf Jewish actress Shoshannah Stern is more than a little bit angry — and for good reason. Stern appears in a new video, “Why is Shoshannah Stern Pissed Off?” It is part of the Lavender Revolution, a social media movement to end violence against deaf women. Deaf Hope, the Oakland, Calif. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/joan-krizack-wins-champion-of-freedom-award-for-the-documenting-diversity-project/ http://www.jewpi.com/joan-krizack-wins-champion-of-freedom-award-for-the-documenting-diversity-project/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:18 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/joan-krizack-wins-champion-of-freedom-award-for-the-documenting-diversity-project/ In 1998, Northeastern University announced that it had received a two-year federal grant to “identify, locate, secure, and make accessible the most important and at-risk historical records of Boston’s African American, Chinese, gay and lesbian, and Latino communities. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/gail-t-reimer-receives-benjamin-j-shevach-memorial-award-for-leadership-in-jewish-education/ http://www.jewpi.com/gail-t-reimer-receives-benjamin-j-shevach-memorial-award-for-leadership-in-jewish-education/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:28:17 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/gail-t-reimer-receives-benjamin-j-shevach-memorial-award-for-leadership-in-jewish-education/ On Sunday, June 5, 2011 JWA’s Executive Director Gail T. Reimer was honored at the Hebrew College Commencement with the Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award. The award was presented by Dr. Judith Kates, Hebrew College Professor of Jewish Women’s Studies. She said: The Dr. Benjamin J. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-mothers-for-marriage-equality/ http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-mothers-for-marriage-equality/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:18:24 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jewish-mothers-for-marriage-equality/ The title on Feministing.com made me chuckle: “Jewish mothers lobby for right to nag all their kids about getting married . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/some-jwapedia-favorites/ http://www.jewpi.com/some-jwapedia-favorites/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:52:12 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/some-jwapedia-favorites/ Last month we celebrated Jewish American Heritage Month with #jwapedia , a campaign to tweet JWA’s Encyclopedia . Throughout May, a group of Twitter users including organizations, clergy, lay leaders, social media professionals, and friends of JWA, tweeted over 200 articles from Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-sutlach-aromatic-milk-pudding/ http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-sutlach-aromatic-milk-pudding/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:12:26 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/eating-jewish-sutlach-aromatic-milk-pudding/ It was a busy weekend here for me in Montreal. I participated in the first LeMood event held in the city (related to the Jewish learning Limmud events held all over the world) at which I gave a workshop about Sephardic Shavuot foods. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/jill-abramson-ascends-to-top-spot-at-the-new-york-times/ http://www.jewpi.com/jill-abramson-ascends-to-top-spot-at-the-new-york-times/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:34:06 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/jill-abramson-ascends-to-top-spot-at-the-new-york-times/ The New York Times announced a change last week in its managerial lineup when current executive editor Bill Keller said he would retire and managing editor Jill Abramson would take his placep in the paper’s to spot. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-dr-rosalyn-s-yalow-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-and-mother/ http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-dr-rosalyn-s-yalow-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-and-mother/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:14:21 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/remembering-dr-rosalyn-s-yalow-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-and-mother/ “A Jewish woman whose father-in-law is a rabbi, who keeps a kosher home, who invites her lab assistants to Passover seders, and worries about them catching colds is not the typical image of a Nobel Prize winner,” Emily Taitz writes in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia . Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/in-defense-of-jewish-food/ http://www.jewpi.com/in-defense-of-jewish-food/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:50:29 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/in-defense-of-jewish-food/ It was just over a week ago that my advisor told me about Josh Ozserky’s article entitled “The Kugel Conundrum” in which Ozserky bluntly declares, “Jewish food is awful.” My first reaction was one of incredulity and I wondered whether a convincing argument could be made against Jewish food. Read More »]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/the-final-day-of-jwapedia/ http://www.jewpi.com/the-final-day-of-jwapedia/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 19:34:10 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/the-final-day-of-jwapedia/ Today is the final day of May, which also makes it the final day of Jewish American Heritage Month and the final day of our #jwapedia campaign to tweet the Encyclopedia . This month we wanted to bring Jewish women’s stories to the fore, experimenting with Twitter as a vehicle for doing so. Read More [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/girls-in-trouble-telling-women%e2%80%99s-stories-in-a-%e2%80%98language%e2%80%99-i-understand/ http://www.jewpi.com/girls-in-trouble-telling-women%e2%80%99s-stories-in-a-%e2%80%98language%e2%80%99-i-understand/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 17:20:31 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/girls-in-trouble-telling-women%e2%80%99s-stories-in-a-%e2%80%98language%e2%80%99-i-understand/ “The world is woven through us/I swear I wont forget/how her fingers hold the thread.” This is the final line of the song “Rubies,” off the amazing sophomore album “Half You Half Me” by the group Girls in Trouble , released on JDUB records earlier this month. Girls in Trouble may sound familiar because we [...]]]> 0 http://www.jewpi.com/does-cheerleading-matter-to-jewish-women/ http://www.jewpi.com/does-cheerleading-matter-to-jewish-women/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 17:22:09 +0000 admin http://www.jewpi.com/does-cheerleading-matter-to-jewish-women/ The National Collegiate Athletic Association is considering a proposal to recognize competitive cheerleading as an emerging sport, a step towards legitimacy as a championship sport. Read More »]]> 0