Tova Rosenberg (not her real name) lives in Rosh Pina, a little hippie town in the Galilee region of Israel that overlooks the Hula Valley. She is pretty in an unadorned way — her long red hair is cut in a blunt straight style, her glasses are wire and speak to function over form, and […]
Sarah Wildman
Sarah Wildman is a Prospect senior correspondent and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She was a Spring 2006 Milena Jesenska Journalism Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, in Vienna, Austria, the first North American to receive this grant, and has been based in Europe since October 2005. Previously, Wildman was a contributing writer for the Advocate magazine and a Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. Before accepting the Pew fellowship, Wildman was on staff at The New Republic. Her work has also appeared in Elle, The Christian Science Monitor, Travel & Leisure, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The Washington Post, Glamour, Marie Claire, Rolling Stone, Salon, The Jerusalem Report, and O (the Oprah magazine).
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Tune In, Turn On, Fight Back
Public television is under attack from within, undermined by a Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that is stacked with highly political appointees who think any programming based on “freedom, imagination, and initiative” — the words are from the first section of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 — is inherently liberal. But can they be […]
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Breach of Faith
At the Muslim Al-Noor school in Brooklyn, New York, all girls wear the hijab. Heads covered with white cloth scarves fill the classrooms, and long blue or green robes hide any Western-style clothing worn underneath. A few are modest beyond what’s mandatory, wearing chador-style coverings that expose only the eyes, but the robes and headscarves […]
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Wedding-Bell Blues
On October 28, as Democrats scrambled volunteers to Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, Philip Burress, chairman of the Ohio Campaign to Protect Marriage, was so confident of victory that he wasn’t even in the state. Burress had championed Issue One, the anti–gay-marriage amendment, and had secured a place for it on the ballot just as the […]
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Leave the Light On
On the Web site of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, an organization that “identifies, trains and supports open lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender candidates and officials,” you can search by state to find openly gay officials in office. The names and positions on the list are almost exclusively local. City councils. Boards of education. […]
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How the Other Half Votes
“Welcome to the lunch of the most powerful people in the Democratic Party,” boomed Ellen Malcolm from the podium at the Emily’s List luncheon on Tuesday of convention week. The crowd cheered. Packed with 2,000 paying Emily’s List supporters paying $250 a plate, the room pulled in an easy half-million. A grinning Malcolm continued, announcing […]
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Think Different
On a steamy Washington night in early June, a moneyed crowd of gay men and lesbians gathered in the vaulted hall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a John Kerry fund raiser. The big draw that night was not actress Sharon Gless (Queer As Folk, Cagney and Lacey) but the arguably […]
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Radical Gay Movement
Pride Weekend in Washington always has the feeling of a small-town parade. It’s not so much bare breasts as it is dogs and bicycles. “Radical” isn’t a word that usually comes to mind. In fact, the most risqué people there — and they’re hardly that — are usually the hard-bodied men painted with glitter, wearing […]
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John on the Spot
They say that John Kerry has the entire Democratic establishment, and even some outliers, in his corner. “I personally have never seen the Democratic Party more united,” says one party strategist. “As in ever.” Swearing that the intraparty squabbling of the last decade is over, allegiance to the candidate has come from all corners. But […]
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Gay Rites Movement
Sunday, Nov. 2 dawned sunny and hot, more like late spring than mid-autumn. At St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington’s posh Georgetown neighborhood, the open doors brought a welcome bit of air to women in sleeveless dresses, who drew shawls loosely about their shoulders. The rector, choir members and seminarians were surely sweating beneath their […]
