September 2009
89 posts
Women’s health is NOT elective! Read more at Jewesses with Attitude: http://bit.ly/n6aSk
Women's health is not elective →
We are in big trouble. When I started reading about the healthcare reform battle, I was angry. Now that the Senate panel has rejected the public option, and Obama has declined to stand up…
Sep. 30, 1911 - Happy Birthday to writer and humanitarian Ruth Gruber! This Week in History http://bit.ly/1KFHM6
RT @EmmaGPapers 9/29/1909 Emma Goldman met w single-taxers, freethinkers, and other radicals in Philadelphia to discuss free speech fight.
Yiddische mamas, Anne Frank, and why women have sex - new link roundup at Jewesses with Attitude http://bit.ly/1VDMQ8
Yiddische mamas, Anne Frank, and why women have... →
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Friday, went back to work that afternoon. [Washington Post] From “Yiddische Mama” to “Jewish Mother:” Philogos discusses this…
Sep. 29, 1995 - Peggy Charren receives Presidential Medal of Freedom for advocacy of educational children’s TV http://bit.ly/251ZAe
What a great idea! RT @JewishPub: Whoa! Add the Jewish Book Search to your iGoogle! http://bit.ly/1J60db
For Convert and Mother-to-Be, Bris Is Ultimate... →
How do you measure commitment? That’s the question I was left pondering after reading Elana Sztokman’s post
on the double standard for Orthodox women. Some women’s tardiness for
services has…
Including young Jews in old systems →
Yesterday, JTA published, “Where the Blogosphere Meets the Boardroom,” an op-ed co-authored by Jordan Namerow, a long-time writer for Jewesses with Attitude and my predecessor at the Jewish…
Why the Federation must recognize and embrace diversity in the Jewish community, starting with young Jews. http://bit.ly/iB5am
Darn straight! RT @JOHNNYBRAVO_CDN: @JoannaAngel Jewish women rock!
Feel better Ruth Bader Ginsburg! We are thinking of you. http://bit.ly/WmcSN
Sep. 25, 1944 - Happy Birthday Eugenia Zuckerman, acclaimed musician, author, and journalist! This Week in History http://bit.ly/327lNp
Get Well Soon, Ruth Bader Ginsburg! →
I woke up to the news this morning that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to become a Supreme Court Justice, had been hospitalized as a precaution, after being treated for an iron…
Blaming the Feminist Revolution for women’s... →
The results of a General Social Survey, which has been tracking American’s happiness since 1972, have surprised and confused us with their finding that women are growing increasingly unhappy over…
Jewish women on happiness →
Writing that last post on the General Social Survey about women’s unhappiness has really got me thinking about happiness and how to define happiness. In my post, I shared a quote from Nora…
Blaming the Feminist Revolution for women’s unhappiness? I donhttp://bit.ly/19JBRq
Blaming the Feminist Revolution for women’s unhappiness? I don’t think so. http://bit.ly/19JBRq
Sep. 24, 1932 - Happy Birthday Joanne Greenberg, author of “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” This Week in History http://bit.ly/3x42J0
This http://bit.ly/19JBRq has got me thinking about happiness. Here’s what some Jewish women have to say on happiness: http://bit.ly/mAGK5
Sep. 22, 1941 - Sculptor Louise Nevelson’s first one-woman show opened at the Nierendorf Gallery. This Week in History http://bit.ly/c0Zqn
Twitteleh, cliché cookbooks, and mikveh secrets -... →
Cooking with clichés: Yo Yenta shares her thoughts on The Jewish Princess line of cookbooks. [Yo Yenta] Mazel Tov Elaine Schuster, recently nominated as a representative to the U.N. General…
Twitteleh, cliché cookbooks, and mikveh secrets - new link roundup at Jewesses with Attitude! http://bit.ly/11DDqJ
The "fury of the kooky, odd-looking girl" →
On Saturday, 67 year-old Barbra Streisand will return to the Vanguard - the venue that made her a star. According to this piece in the New York Times Magazine, the concert will feature…
Domestic Abuse a “pre-existing condition” - “Healthcare is a women’s issue” xposted at The Sisterhood http://bit.ly/4dtIh8
RT @cnylink: NCJW honors Margie Burstein: The NCJW, Syracuse Section-At-Large has named Margie .. http://bit.ly/44SkWb
RT @AmericanJewess: “You’d be surprised: but on suffrage laws/ She has no views and she doesnt speak” from “A New Woman” http://bit.ly/ZKShn
“The fury of the kooky, odd-looking girl” Barbra Streisand returns to the Vanguard! http://bit.ly/iLLQX
Healthcare reform is a women's issue →
Last Friday, Michelle Obama spoke to leaders of several women’s groups arguing that “overhauling the nation’s health care system was of critical importance
to women and part of ‘the next step’ in…
Sep. 22, 1895 - Happy Birthday to celebrated poet, novelist, critic, and editor Babette Deutsch! http://bit.ly/2wDka
Healthcare reform is a women’s issue! http://bit.ly/1541We
jewpoint0.org · Take My Copy of Twitterville →
“How is Twitter useful for you? Alternatively, you can share your best piece of Twitter wisdom, or a Twitter-related question you’re wrestling with.”
Hmmm… I’ll have to think about this one. Does anyone have any comments about JWA’s Twitter presence?
Wolf, Chesler Weigh In on the Hijab — and Each... →
Naomi Wolf — the feminist Jewish author of the bestselling landmark book, “The Beauty Myth,”
which brazenly exposes how the multi-billion dollar beauty industry
manipulates women’s entire sense…
9/21/01- Jewish Women Watching prints ad in the NY Times asking Jewish women to hold community accountable for sexism http://bit.ly/2trBDD
First day back after a holiday weekend means the staff room is full of delicious leftover treats!
Sep. 18, 1920- Happy Bday Selma Jeanne Cohen, who fought to make dance scholarship an academic discipline. http://bit.ly/vo9eE
Apples, honey, cake and ...stew? A High Holidays... →
The Jewish holidays are divided (in my mind) into “food holidays” and “not food holidays.” The High Holy Days are the ultimate expression of this dichotomy. On Rosh Hashana, we delight in…
Sep. 17, 1984 - B’nai B’rith Women Denounces B’nai B’rith International - This Week in History http://bit.ly/N4evt
Mazel tov, Chai Feldblum →
On Monday, President Obama announced his nomination for
Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and I couldn’t be
happier about his pick: Chai Feldblum, Professor of Law at…
The all-singing, all-dancing, Jewish girl on Glee →
I have fallen head-over-heels in love with the new Fox series Glee. Often called the “anti-High School Musical,” Glee is a series about a group of high school misfits who find their…
Sep. 16, 1988 - Joan Micklin Silver’s “Crossing Delancy” was released. Hmm, it’s about time for a re-watch! http://bit.ly/sxbTq
"Only in America" poll results →
The results are in from the National Museum of American Jewish History’s poll to select the 18 individuals to be featured in their “Only in America” Hall of Fame. The results
are not too…
The Rosh Hashana link feast →
This week is flying by and Rosh Hashana is almost upon us. If you have been as busy as we have this past week at the Jewish Women’s Archive, the holiday comes as a welcome respite. I have rounded…
The ultimate Rosh Hashana link feast is up at Jewesses with Attitude. Shana Tova! http://bit.ly/3O5Puw
Remembering Sylvia Schur http://bit.ly/13vmzy and Patrick Swayze http://bit.ly/2KA6qy at Jewesses with Attitude
Thanks @EstherK! RT @EstherK: @jwaonline’s take on swayze and what he meant to Jewish girls. http://bit.ly/d30Ok
Remembering Sylvia Schur, a pioneer who... →
Thanks to Julie & Julia, foodies are abuzz about Julia Child. Icon though she is, the story of a different sort of chef caught my attention this week. Sylvia Schur passed away at age 92…
What Patrick Swayze (z”l) did for Jewish women →
I heard the news about Patrick Swayze’s death when I logged
on to Facebook last night and saw numerous status updates about dancing the
merenge and not putting Baby in the corner. Swayze’s death…