Instagram’s Glitzy ‘Dear Ivanka’ Pleads: Save Us From Donald Trump
The messages are written in the voice of a close friend, appealing for help.
The ‘War on Christmas’ May Have Inspired Donald Trump’s Political Career
The 2016 White House Christmas tree.
A million, zillion years ago, before trans issues entered the mainstream, and before anyone had any idea how Mark Lilla felt about gender-neutral bathrooms, there was another anti-‘political-correctness’ topic-du-jour: the so-called War on Christmas. Much as society is now splitting down the lines of those who think it’s just basic human decency to call people by their preferred pronouns (even knowing that the vast majority stick with the ones assigned at birth) and those who consider acknowledging the humanity of a small minority group Very Very Unfair, back in the day, the split was between those who agreed to say “holidays” out of sensitivity to the country’s five non-Christmas-observers (or as we also like to be called, “Jews”*), and those who were all, nah. (I believe this particular debate continues, over disposable coffee cup design.) While some see a menorah next to a Christmas tree and think, well, that’s nice and inclusive, others see the PC Police and get in a huff.
A Jewish Therapist Asks: ‘How Can I Treat Patients When the World is Spinning Out of Control?’
The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna.
Since Trump became President Elect, my ‘fear belly’ has returned. I first experienced this acidic-laced stabbing in the gut as a child listening to my mother’s stories about the horrors of her childhood in Dabrowa, Poland. By the time I became a therapist in mid-life, fear belly had largely dissipated. Helping patients find their strength and resilience helped me find my own.
Why We Forgive Rory Gilmores and Ivanka Trumps but not Hannah Horvaths and Hillary Clintons
I’ve spent the last day or so preoccupied by a question: Why is Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham’s “Girls” protagonist, this villain, not just an anti-heroine but (conflated with her creator) blamed for the election of Donald Trump… while Rory Gilmore, that other television-show protagonist, is… fine, somewhat despised in light of her reappearance in the reboot miniseries as a floundering 32-year-old (see Thea Glassman on Rory, and on the show’s Jewish angles), but not poised to become the new face of millennial entitlement?
Forward Profile of Teen Weightlifter Inspires Documentary
Naomi Kutin in action.
In 2012, The Forward’s Naomi Zeveloff reported on the World’s Strongest Girl, 10 year old Naomi Kutin, who, at the time, was about to start sixth grade at Yeshivat Noam Day School in New Jersey. Kutin, who had been setting powerlifting records since age eight and trains with her father, Ed, could lift nearly three times her body weight.
