Link Roundup

The Good:

• When divorce is a reason to celebrate. [Sisterhood]
• "If you're happy and you know it..." Ellen Goodman refutes the results of the so-called "Happiness Survey." [Boston Globe]
• Cory Kahaney (one of the hosts of Making Trouble) hits the borscht belt with her new play. [TheJewishWeek]
• "New Jews" are doin' it for themselves.  The post-baby-boom Jews embrace new approaches to Jewish culture and faith, which include praying in the desert, webcasting bible stories, organizing for non-Jewish causes, Jew-tattoos and punk rock. [CNN]
• With the emergence of women scholars in the Orthodox community, women are starting to talk about sex. [Forward]

• Breast Cancer Awareness Month: "Where you can put your pink ribbons," by Tamar Fox. [MyJewishLearning] 
• Marjorie Ingall and Debra Nussbaum Cohen discuss breastfeeding, and the Jewish guilt that comes with failure. [Tablet] [The Sisterhood]
• A "healthy" American appetite for Israeli food is growing. [JTA]
• Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags -- HBO's new documentary about the rise and fall of the garment industry and its role in the American Jewish experience. (Don't forget its significance in labor history and women's history!) [Heeb] [Forward] 

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]

• Barbra Streisand's Love is the Answer is her 9th #1 album on the Billboard charts! [Heeb]
• A "nice Jewish girl" is guarding male, Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

• October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  Check out the blog of Jewish Women International where survivors are sharing stories and inspiring change. [JWI]
• It's the 75th anniversary of women's jeans, according to Levis. The history of women's jeans is juicy, so check the archives to read about boyfriend trousers and Jewess jeans. [Feministe]
• Newest SNL cast member (and Jewess) Jenny Slate accidentally says the F-word live.  Like many Jewish women comedians, Jenny Slate is "Making Trouble." [Heeb]
• On that note, Making Trouble, the film about legendary Jewish women comedians, is now available for purchase on DVD from our website, www.makingtrouble.com.

• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Friday, went back to work that afternoon. [Washington Post]
• From "Yiddische Mama" to "Jewish Mother:" Philogos discusses this linguistic and cultural shift. [Forward]
• France joins the U.K. in the push to put health warning labels on airbrushed photographs of women to promote healthier body image in young women. What a great idea! [Daily Mail] via [Feministing]

• Cooking with clichés: Yo Yenta shares her thoughts on The Jewish Princess line of cookbooks. [Yo Yenta]
• Mazel Tov Elaine Schuster, recently nominated as a representative to the U.N. General Assembly. [JTA]
• The House of Secrets: The Hidden World of the Mikveh is reviewed. [Washington Post] [Feminist Review]
• Gloria Steinem exhorted the members of the National Council of Jewish Women/Greater Detroit Section to become active in the fight for women's rights. [HometownLife]

The Jewish holidays are divided (in my mind) into "food holidays" and "not food holidays."  The High Holy Days are the ultimate expression of this dichotomy.  On Rosh Hashana, we delight in foods that are sweet to ring in the New Year, and on Yom Kippur, we fast. 

This week is flying by and Rosh Hashana is almost upon us.  If you have been as busy as we have this past week at the Jewish Women's Archive, the holiday comes as a welcome respite.  I have rounded up a "menu" of High Holiday links, some silly and some serious, to help ease us into the holiday season.  Enjoy!

Starters

Gloria Steinem, a "Jewess with attitude" if I ever saw one, spoke at the OMEGA Women & Power conference on Sep. 11th.  Feministing has a few posts about her talk to check out.  The theme of the conference was connecting across generations, and I absolutely love what Steinem had to say on that subject.  She rebukes the misconception that young women don't care about feminism, and of course, she doesn't hold back.