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Jewesses With Attitude

Link Roundup - Teen dating violence, Rabbis blaming gays, and more

  • Jewish education takes on a new flavor at the Jewish Food Education Network. [eJewishPhilanthropy]
  • Dan Friedman reviews Off and Running -- the story of an African American girl adopted by Jewish lesbian parents -- in the Forward.
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This Week in History

FEBRUARY 8, 1976

The first recorded meeting of what would become the Women's Rabbinic Network took place.

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We Remember

Jean Caroll, speaking at the Friar's Club in NYC, November 2006 - cropped

Jean Carroll

1911 – 2010
Comedian

Jean Carroll was a stand up comedian in the truest, truest essence ... [She] just stood there in front of a microphone and talked. She was what today we would call a monologist... If she was sitting a table with Don Rickles and Jack Benny, she could hold her own.
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