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The fine interview of Susan Weidman Schneider in the “Jewish Women Now” special section (“A Journalistic Room of One’s Own,” June 22) gets it partly wrong in characterizing Schneider as “founding editor.” The original notion of a Jewish feminist magazine was tossed around as early as February 1973, at the first National Jewish Feminist Conference […]

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In some places, women who gain a few pounds lose their beauty pageant title. In Israel, only the hefty need apply for one beauty title The annual Miss Large competition took place recently in Beersheba, and Vered Fisher, center, a former member of an intelligence unit in the Israeli Army, was declared the winner. She […]

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I’m convinced. Mel Gibson should not play Judah Maccabee (“Mel Gibson and Judah Maccabee? Not a Good Mix,” Opinion, May 25). In fact, Gibson should crawl into some dark hole, never to be heard from again. But in making his hardly controversial point about Gibson, why does the author of the piece go out of […]

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