Becky Blab

There were once 5,000 Jews living in this teeming port city, but today there are fewer than 35. Israel, 38 with a thin beard, is the youngest by nearly 25 years.
Israel lives inside the only place left where Jews aren’t a minority - the Jewish cemetery. He cares for the graves of his father, his [...]

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A post at Desicritics highlights the recent case of the Japanese surrogate baby and how Indian laws fail to keep up with the changing demands of the times.
Although India has become the favored destination for those who are looking for surrogate mothers for their yet to be born babies as more and more Indian women [...]

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“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” –Margaret Fuller f(rom the Sunday TOI)

I don’t recall ever having heard of Fuller, but apparently she was the 1st Feminist in the US (her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work [...]

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My prayers go out to all those affected.

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I saw a documentary program called ‘Jews’ in the UK last week before coming here. The first of in a three-part series focusing on Jews in Britain gave us a glimpse into the lives of an ultra-orthodox community called the Hasidic. I was struck by some similarities between the way the women are treated in [...]

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