Spring 2011
Dressing feminist—what four smart women think about each morning. Adrienne Cooper on Yiddish songs about family violence. How to throw a green wedding. A Jew-by-choice loves her mezuzah.
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Women Sing of Family Violence
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Taking up the tradition of truth-telling in Yiddish music, we hear the dark stories in those familiar tunes.
My Coach Bag
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Mick Jagger famously sang, “you can’t always get what you want,” and then consoled us by adding that, sometimes, “you get what you need.” But in a long-distant summer of... Read more »
Standing Out
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In the early years of second-wave feminism, some activists thumbed their noses at Vogue, Seventh Avenue, and their mother’s closets. Liberated women wore their disdain for fashion as a badge... Read more »
No Thanks For the Liberation
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This year we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Naomi Wolf ’s The Beauty Myth. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment I read it, but it had to... Read more »
Getting Dressed
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Fashion is a completely delightful obsession for my cohort of 20-something women. It’s an in-your-face reclamation of the joy of clothes, putting the femme in feminism, so to speak. We... Read more »
And the Bride Wore Green
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Making a shiddukh between Jewish meaning and eco-politics. Why? And how to?
City of Refuge
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When my grandparents came to Palestine from Berlin in 1933, they settled in the new white city of Tel Aviv. Many German refugees came in the 30s, bringing to this infant... Read more »
Bells and Pomegranates
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In Brooklyn there is a rabbi who will study with you.His office is lined with books, floor to ceiling andWall to wall, hieroglyphics on the spines, a scrim ofDust motes... Read more »
