VideoJew does Hadassah

By Jay Firestone
Published on July 17, 2008

Ms. magazine’s ad rejection elicits strong response

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on January 17, 2008

The American Jewish Congress (AJCongress) is ramping up its protest against Ms. magazine's rejection of its pro-Israel advertisement. In a campaign launched Sunday, AJCongress urged people to write, call or e-mail the prominent feminist publication to "register your complaint at their anti-Israel bias."

Books: Interest grows in neglected 19th-Century female author Amy Levy

By Jessica George Firger
Published on November 16, 2006

Oscar Wilde adored her, calling the young writer "a girl of genius," while modern critics, in their flippancy and an attempt to articulate who this virtually unknown Victorian author was, have coined Amy Levy the "Jewish Sylvia Plath," referring to both her precocious talent and her early, tragic demise.In the past few years, there has been an uptick in interest in Levy's work, including the publication of a biography in 2000, a conference held in 2002 in London specifically on her work and scholarship tied to it and, most recently, the annotated editions of Levy's two novels, "The Romance of a Shop" and "Reuben Sachs."

Robot Dances Off With Award

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on February 23, 2006

Don't have time to shlep to a museum? Too tired to remember if the free museum day is the first or second Tuesday of the month? Want to conquer a large, overwhelming exhibit in small, 15-minute intervals? Then bring the museum to your desktop and browse at your own pace.

The Lady Vanishes

By Amy Klein
Published on December 22, 2005

>I'm sitting between the two most different women imaginable here at Temple Emmanuel in Beverly Hills: a matronly lumpish type who is well past her 50s, unmade up with short, graying hair and long triangular earrings -- her only testament, of sorts, to fashion; and on the other side of me, a plasticized lady of the same indeterminate age, wearing a black leather miniskirt and crocodile skin yellow boots and an expression on her face -- if one can call the pearly botoxed look an expression -- of disbelief and shock.

Still Smarting

By Amy Klein
Published on November 3, 2005

Dowd's basic theory posits that "The Rules" -- that once-silly guidebook on how to entrap a man, which is now read nonironically, as in The Torah of dating -- was just the beginning.

Sarah’s Tent to Fete Feminist Scholar

By Susan Josephs
Published on August 18, 2005

Driving down Wilshire Boulevard about 35 years ago, Savina J. Teubal saw the bumper sticker that changed her life.