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While women should excel in the classroom and the boardroom, they should ultimately succumb to their feminine natures and center their lives on the home.
Orthodox Judaism and the F Word
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Priced Out of Participation
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The main concern of the Jewish women educators and professionals who attended was how, on the salary they were paid and the hours that they worked, they could afford child care, religious school, camp and synagogue membership.
What’s a Friend to Do?
by Nancy Sinkoff
Light up a cigarette. Or, better yet, have some charming, young male student acolyte do it for you.
My Writing Roots in Porn Lit
Anonymous
I pored over the want ads in the Village Voice. Telemarketer? Nurse’s aide? Nothing clicked until I read this one:
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ADULT FICTION
A Conversation with Alix Kates Shulman
by Patricia Grossman
Alix Kates Shulman has been a passionate feminist voice for over 40 years, bringing to light questions of marital parity and other front-line issues of women's rights in her memoirs and other nonfiction.
An interview with Lilith magazine’s Editor in Chief
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Cross-posted with Kosher Salt. Anyone who read Freakonomics remembers the chapter on how a person’s name can pre-determine their future. If that frightening piece of incredible parental pressure got you thinking about… Read more »
Spinoza and Cherry Ames
Rabbi Mindy Avra Portnoy
I could not believe my eyes. Cherry Ames, the quintessential Midwestern Gentile, was learning Hebrew from a New York deli owner.
Peach Fuzz Lishma (for its own sake):(“Peaching, Not Preaching”)
Rabbi Mindy Avra Portnoy
It’s a new way of living – but fortunately, as a Jew, I know a term for it – “lishma”. We are urged to study the Torah, for example, “lishma”, for its own sake, but not because we will derive some advantage – economic, professional, psychological – from doing so, but simply “for its own sake”.
Beit Shemesh, Religious Extremism, and the Dignity of Women: Some Lessons from History
by Rabbi David Ellenson
This is not the first time such conflict between sectors of the ultra-Orthodox community and the other Jewish citizens of the State of Israel has been manifest. Indeed, such clashes predate the State itself.