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In this week’s Jerusalem Post, Dr. Richard Schwartz writes: “Queen Esther, the heroine of the Purim story, was a vegetarian while she lived in the palace of King Achashverosh. She… Read more »
Queen Esther the Vegetarian?
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Making Noise
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The current issue of American Jewish Life magazine has a feature on “Women Who Rock,” including Sophie Milman, Marissa Nadler, Regina Spektor and Neshama Carlbach. In an introductory essay, Mordechai… Read more »
Putting Ourselves Up for Sale?
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In Suze Orman’s latest PBS special, the personal finance guru exhorts women not to volunteer, not to “put themselves on sale.” I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately because… Read more »
All the News that's Fit to…Something
Mel Weiss
It’s difficult to write about how aggravated you are about the media’s focus on glitz—when they’re supposed to be writing about politics, when it means that, when you’re supposed to… Read more »
Know any Israeli Accountants? Just One Condition…
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In the spirit of “aliyah adventures,” I record here a transcript of a conversation I had this afternoon with an accountant in Jerusalem: “Hello, this is Avrum, returning your call.… Read more »
How 'Bout a Reading List?
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“Be warned,” Ellen Litman writes in Ha’aretz. “The Book of Dahlia is not the kind of book in which a girl gets an incurable brain tumor and learns an important… Read more »
Reflections on International Women's Day
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Saturday March 8th marked 100 years of commemorating International Women’s Day. (Mazel tov IWD!) A lot of people are skeptical of such Days with a capital D, but — like… Read more »
Economies of Scale
Mel Weiss
I feel chastened, somewhat, having written about my ambivilent attitude towards Israel just days before murdered eight students in a yeshiva there. That the yeshiva is associated with the religious… Read more »
Hideous Kinky
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The other night, a friend and I went to a reading at the East Village’s cozy The reading was decidedly unsexy, too self-conscious to be much more than yet another… Read more »
Portman’s Spicy Interfaith Flick
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Israeli born actress, Natalie Portman recently made headlines for designing a new line of vegan shoes. (When I want to find stylish, leather-free shoes to match my vegetarian values, I… Read more »