Love, Remembrance, and Vigilante Injustice - Link Roundup Oct. 15, 2009
On leadership:
- Jewish Women International releases its "10 Women to Watch in 5770" list. Mazel Tov! [JWI]
On the Arts:
- The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will host “As It Is Written: Project 304,805,” a public performance in which 34-year-old scribe Julie Seltzer will spend a year calligraphing a Torah scroll in one of the museum’s galleries. [Tablet]
- New York, I Love You opens this Friday, starring Natalie Portman as an ultra-Orthodox woman. Tablet looks over the history of Hasidic characters in film. [Tablet]
- Regina Spektor condemns Holocaust deniers in her song, "Ink Stains." [MyJewishLearning]
On remembrance:
- A Christian school in Florida used a sleepover to "simulate" Anne Frank's experience for 8th grade students. They ate potatoes and couldn't use their iPods or the internet. That's basically the same thing, right? [Tablet]
- First Anne Frank has a Youtube channel, now Auschwitz has a Facebook page. [YoYenta] [Tablet]
On happiness:
- Remember that happiness survey? Barbara Ehirenreich weighs in and explains why this is pseudo-science. [Guernica]
On feminism:
- Last week we posted a link to that freaky photoshopped magazine cover featuring a Ralph Lauren model. This week, the model, Filippa Hamilton, was fired for being overweight. She is 5'10" and weighs 120 lbs. [Daily News]
- Alienate your female customers? Pepsi has an app for that! [Mashable]
On vigilante injustice:
- Podcast: Young Israeli men are forming vigilante groups to "rescue" Jewish women from their Arab boyfriends. [NPR]
On love:
- Teens struggle to tell love from abuse in this NPR podcast. [NPR]
- Is the concept of finding your "bashert" unproductive, or even healthy? [Forward]
On healthcare:
- Good news! According to Guttmacher, the use of contraceptives is up, and the rate of abortion is down! [Feministe]
- A breastfeeding infant is declared obese, and denied health insurance. [LaVidaLocavore]
- Tell Congress to end gender discrimination: I am not a pre-existing condition! [SEIU]
On comedy:
- "Susie Essman: Why I love Susie Greene" [Sisterhood]
- Sarah Silverman is at it again! This time she suggests the Pope sell the Vatican, and use the money to end world hunger. Catholics are not amused. [Tablet]
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