poetry by Thilde Fox
…sat round the silver, the red wine glasses, and read the story of their deliverance. Thilde Fox was born in Vienna, came to England with the Kindertransport, and has lived…
Passover
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Link Roundup: Sexism and Anti-Semitism
Jill Finkelstein
…good looks as a reason for her attack. Israeli journalist Tsafi Saar shared her thoughts on the controversy. [Haaretz] On Tuesday, Fox news correspondent Glenn Beck compared Reform Judaism to…
Working? Mothering? Conflicted?
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…Fox (Harmony Books) Is Motherhood Ridiculous? It seems that on a cultural level, the image of a woman who takes care of her children is not unlike the old psychoanalytic…
An Unlikely Poster Child for Planned Parenthood
Ali Walensky talks with Susan Weidman Schneider
…she told an interviewer on New York City’s Fox News channel, “I don’t want [healthcare] to be a partisan issue, because I don’t believe my life is a partisan issue.”…
Letters
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…voice and space, can be useful for Conservative feminists too. (One example I cherish is Rabbi Cherri Koller-Fox’s 1973 essay on a bar mitzvah class she held, which enabled the…
Fiction: Driving Lesson
Kate Schmier
…humor, as far as she could tell. They found the Raycha Mrs. Greenberg on a velvet seat, her own private throne, fox furs draped around her shoulders. On her pinky was…
Cinematic Sustenance for a Jewish Feminist Exodus
Helene Meyers
…double-edged title of this comedic documentary summarizes the schtick at the heart of the film: to combat the Islamophobia spread by Fox News and company, a Muslim comedy troupe travels…
What They Expect When You’re Expecting
by Gabrielle Birkner
…of their lives. As Elissa Strauss wrote recently on The Sisterhood, the Forward’s women’s issues blog, “Pregnancy and post-pregnancy has, for the most part, remained elevated above the foxy ambitions…
When a Woman Made Decisions at Washington Post: New Movie Tells All. Or Most.
Aileen Jacobson
The Post, 20th Century Fox “The Post,” a new movie starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg, could be seen mainly as a saga about the…
Sadie Schuster’s Magic Love Knots (Part 2 of “Sadie in Love”)
Rochelle Distelheim
…the used fox scarf with one eye in the window of a second-hand shop on Orchard Street. By the end of the week, she opened The Daily Forward in search…