Podcasts, The Sisterhood blog

July 13, 2010 by admin

New Podcast: The Jewish Women's Roundtable!

New podcast from the Jewish Women’s Roundtable, a collaboration between Lilith and the Forward’s Sisterhood blog.

Here, the Forward’s web editor Gabrielle Birkner talks with Lilith editor in chief Susan Weidman Schneider, Lilith assistant editor Sonia Isard, and the Forward’s editor, Jane Eisner. Listen in on our conversation on everything from Jewish anti-choice organizations, to a new pitch for a reality television show, to our own “click” moments.

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Enjoy! And join in the conversation in the comments section below.

The Sisterhood blog

August 20, 2009 by admin

News from The Sisterhood

The Lilith blog and the Forward’s new blog for women, The Sisterhood, will be cross-posting exciting new posts from the world(s) of Jewish women. Stay tuned for more!

This week on the Forward’s Sisterhood blog:

• In Geula, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, women and men are being asked to walk on separate sides of the street — an idea that Debra Nussbaum Cohen says is emblematic of “the growing extremism in the form of misogyny of the far-right edge of Orthodox Judaism.”
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• Deborah Kolben, pregnant with her first child, finds meaning in declining circumcision rates.
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• Chris Rock’s forthcoming documentary, “Good Hair,” looks at the lengths black women are willing to go to style their tresses — and Sarah Seltzer draws parallels to “the politics of straightness surrounding Jewish women’s hair.”
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• In other hair-related related news, Rebecca Honig Friedman writes about attending a recent upsherin, or traditional hair-cutting ceremony that celebrates a Jewish 3-year-old boy’s ascent from babyhood into childhood.
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