Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

March 17, 2015

Head of Ultra-Orthodox Women’s Party Answers Haters BY TIKI KRAKOWSKI From name-calling to childish pranks, Ruth Colian, the founder of the ultra-Orthodox women’s party U’bzchutan has seen it all this election season. Today she writes, she forgives her detractors. Sexist Chocolate Bar Rocks Ultra-Orthodox Party BY ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER Ultra-Orthodox women hoped to play a bigger role in this Israeli election. So why is one party’s biggest outreach to women all about housecleaning tips and chocolate?

True Ally BY DMITRIY SHAPIRO For some, departing Senator Barbara Mikulski represents a vanishing breed: a staunch liberal who is unstinting in her support of Israel. Eve of the East BY HANNAH RUBIN Sasha Rudensky takes haunting photographs that confront the fetishistic fascination that Eastern European women hold for some of us. Quitting My Meds? BY JUDY BOLTON-FASMAN Judy Bolton-Fasman once considered herself the ‘poster girl’ for psychotropic medications but now wonders if her pills have become a crutch.

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