Staying in touch during Seminary [Long Distance Friendships]

By awasserman February 16, 2012

I’ve known them since I was 10 years old. We’ve gone through everything together- pimples, training bras, hating our parents, loving our parents, hating boys, loving boys (we’re back to hating them, FYI) high school, mean girls – you get my point. We were that group of girls who spent every waking moment together, who…

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Do Orthodox Women Hate Women? [Modern Unorthodox]

By Simi Lichtman February 16, 2012

I wouldn’t call myself a rabid feminist. In fact, sometimes I’m so downright feminine that I put Stepford wives to shame. But today two things happened that made me want to whip off my bra and light it on fire right in the middle of my college’s lobby. Let’s start in the classroom. In one…

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Is Shit Zionists Say a Meme? [Enough]

By pkessler February 16, 2012

Shit Girls Say was funny, at least the first time around. Shit Girls Say to Gay Guys was surprisingly accurate. But Shit Zionists Say took the meme out of its playfully mocking intentions, placing it in the midst of the conflict no one wants to touch. There was nothing funny about the video. Memes are…

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Shit Zionists Say; Mikvah controversy; Jewish Twitter; and more. [Required Reading]

By pkessler February 16, 2012

Norman Finkelstein, a noted advocate for Palestinian rights slammed the BDS movement, likening it to “Maoists”. His shift in position is indicative of a greater pattern in which the conflict is viewed as a matter of civil rights, rather than tension between two states, Sean O’Neill claims. [+972] “There is a paradigm shift in the…

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