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Precedent Setting

Judge Pauline Nightingale is happy to have seen the number of women studying law increase from almost nothing to 50 percent in her lifetime.

Clinton and the Feminists

For many Jewish women, the feminist movement has been the key political event of our lifetimes. It has given us role models, women of great personal power and intellectual agility, and allowed us to venture into unprecedented careers and lifestyles.Arguably, the reason so many Jewish women were drawn to feminism is that it articulated the dream of personal freedom and the mandate of political activism contained within our own spiritual tradition, the pursuit of tikkun olam.\n

Reality Bites

Are seniors at Milken Community High School really \”Wildcats\” after all? Aaron Fishman, outgoing student body president, told me that earlier this year, students tried to change the school\’s sports mascot from the Wildcats to \”something more Jewish.\”\n

The Family Man

The restaurant billboard advertised its Father\’s Day brunch in letters too large to miss. \”If I had a father, we could take him out to eat,\” my daughter, Samantha, said, as we drove by.

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