Jewess has placed a nifty new “This Day of Jewish American Heritage” badge on the sidebar to your right ——–>
where each day in May you’ll find a different Jewish woman who made history on that particular date of the year. It’s part of a new project launched by the Jewish Women’s Archive and the JTA :
What connects the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus? Susan Sontag with Gilda Radner? Patriotism with labor protests? Musical theatre and domestic ritual with potato kugel and halvah? You guessed it: JEWISH AMERICAN HERITAGE.
During Jewish American Heritage Month (May), we’re honoring the legacy of American Jewish women and the country that they struggled to create. For this third annual celebration, the Jewish Women’s Archive has partnered with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) to launch “This Day of Jewish American Heritage,” a daily online feature that connects every day in May to sig...
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In a new book, authors Roger Bennett and Josh Kun detail Jewish American history through vinyl albums. They are trying to answer questions such as, "Who are we?" and "What are we inheriting?" in what Bennett calls the "beginning of a journey." » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us ... more
Israel crowned Khani Yirmiyahu the new Miss ‘Fat and Beautiful’ queen last night. The 22 year old was one of the slimmest contestants at 176lbs and said that each woman should should love her body regardless of her size.
In other Jewish eating news, Leslie Goldman reports in the Huffington Post about the Jewish Women International’s Brain Power for Girl Power Think Tanks in Chicago and Detroit.
Our girls are drinking, having sex, cutting themselves, withholding foo... more
An increasing number of Jewish women are becoming anorexic. According to an online survey conducted by Jewish Women International, half of Jewish educators and social workers have encountered disordered eating among the teens they work with. According to the Huffington Post’s Leslie Goldman, eating disorders are the “‘addiction of choice’ among Jewish girls.” Goldman notes that Jewish Women International was not shocked by the high incidence of eating disor... more
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ISTANBUL -- The war in Iraq has ended, and the Kurds in the country’s north emerge as one of the war’s great victors, liberating themselves from Saddam Hussein’s oppressive rule and declaring an independent state.
To the world’s surprise, it turns out that one of the Kurds’ top leaders is actually Jewish and that, as a result, the nascent Kurdish country will forge a close alliance with Israel, giving the Je... more
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Unsettling signs: Buzzwords, politics and US electionsTehran Times, Iran - 38 minutes agoJohn McCain had an impossible disadvantage to overcome, and failed miserably. He was judged largely based on the many blunders of Republican President …Op-Ed: America’s journey and Obama Jewish Telegraphic AgencyAmerican presidential election at the threshold of history The New NationBarack the Youthful [...]... more
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Obama fared better than feared with Jews MLive.com - 14 hours ago by Politico.com You know, the one discussed in most every outlet, including this one, and that that was going to cost him Florida and the election? Courting the youth vote The Daily of the University of Washington Strong identity makes for success Jerusalem Post North by Northwestern - Jewish Telegraphic Agency - The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - Forward ... more
Knesset women get lesson in self defense. Thanks to the initiative of Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, the female MKs got a free course in self-defense, provided by the El Halev Israel Women’s Martial Arts Federation, where they learned valuable tips like “Kick upwards towards the head but right through the testicles.” Were the classes needed so the women could protect themselves from the men in the Knesset? Perhaps, but the stated objective was to convey to women the message that “fi... more
So asks a series of lectures and theater workshops being held this and next week at the Manhattan Theatre Source in Greenwich Village:
THE WOMAN WHO WROTE SHAKESPEARE: A NEW AUTHORSHIP CANDIDATE is a four-part presentation about Amelia Bassano Lanyer, whom the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in the United Kingdom recently accepted as one of the top eight possible authors of the works of William Shakespeare. A Jewish woman of Moorish ancestry, Amelia Bassano Lanyer was the first woman to publ... more
From Girls Night On, the organization that brings you for-women-only open mic nights, comes a most excellent-sounding, full-on for-women-only concert:
Soho Music 39 & Girls’ Night On! Present:
THE ROSE ON FIRE FESTIVAL
The most talented Jewish women from New York and across the country…on one stage for one night!
All Female Performers. All Female Audience.
Tuesday, March 11th, 8 PM
Doors open at 7:30
The Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street, NYC
$10 in advance. $1... more
Heads up, literary Jewesses!
After attending the first installment of the Dark Lady Players lecture/workshop series exploring the Amelia Bassano theory of Shakespeare , I am thoroughly excited and rearing to do an interview with the theory’s main advocate, Dr. John Hudson.
Hudson presents compelling evidence supporting his theory that the plays we have come to know as William Shakespeare’s were actually written by a Marano Jewess of Sephardic descent, named Amelia Bassano. She h... more
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