My mother was a fierce, stubborn, hard-working woman. She was also a woman who cared about her appearance and deeply internalized the aesthetic pressures on women.
Actress Drew Barrymore meeting “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) cast member Chloe Fineman is the jolt of happiness you never knew you needed. Fineman was invited as a guest on Barrymore’s new CBS talk show, “The Drew Barrymore Show,” on Oct. 12 after Barrymore saw and obsessed over Fineman’s impersonation of her.
I had an interesting conversation over Shabbat with a guest in my sukkah who wanted to talk politics. Immediately, I sensed trouble.
Discussions on safety, security, white supremacy and allyship were at the forefront of the second annual Heschel/King Forum put on by the Black/Jewish Justice Alliance (BJJA) on Oct. 8.
Nithya Raman, who is running against Democratic City Councilmember David Ryu in Los Angeles City Council District four, said in a Democrats for Israel (DFI) Los Angeles questionnaire she doesn’t personally support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement but she does support “the right of public citizens to participate in boycotts.”
Is Donald Trump contagious? Is he immune? Is he in danger? Are we?
So many questions. So few answers. And so little time left before an Election Day that may or may not conclude this extraordinary and unprecedented presidential campaign.
The fellows are “feminists in the world and online, but haven’t really integrated it into their Jewish identity. Kol Koleinu helps them do that.”
In an October 12 statement, Facebook announced that it will ban all Holocaust denial content on its platform.
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