Ms. Taken
Insofar as Ms. Magazine is not Heeb Magazine, Jewdar is not inclined to read it in the first place. However, now we are now tempted to get a subscription just so we can cancel it. Apparently, The American Jewish Congress wanted to run a fairly inoffensive, if rather bland ad in the magazine, highlighting the prominent role played by women in Israeli government. Seems reasonable to us. Apparently not to Ms., which refused to run the ad. We have to say, we don’t find the magazine’s official excuse to be particularly compelling. You can’t run it because two of the women featured in it are from the same party, thus showing favoritism? Doesn’t that imply that the third is from another party? Doesn’t that, by definition, make it bipartisan? Jewdar can be as squishily lefty as the next guy, but it is moments like this that remind us why, when it comes to Israel, the left has done such an awesomely good job of alienating Jews who would normally support it.
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submit a comment01.14.08 at 10:01 am
Their logic is beyond my comprehension. Ms. Magazine should learn to explain their thinking so that people who aren’t womyn will understand also.
01.15.08 at 12:01 pm
The decision by Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority that has now seized control of this publication is at the very least deplorable, and smacks of poltical pandering to their PC constituency, which is notoriously anti-Israel. In the past, Ms. Magazine has used its page to bash Israel, all under the guise of promoting a feminist agenda. Today, the AJC will be holding a press conference to address this issue. They have assembled an impressive array of American Jewish feminists who are also outraged by the decision of Ms. to decline this ad. The following is their press release.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —- Ms. Magazine turned down an understated AJCongress advertisement that did nothing more controversial than call attention to the fact that women currently occupy three of the most significant positions of power in Israeli public life. The proposed ad (The Ad Ms. Didn’t Want You To See: http://www.ajcongress.org/site/DocServer/Ms.pdf?docID=1961) included a text that merely said, “This is Israel,” under photographs of President of the Supreme Court Dorit Beinish, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik.
Now noted feminists Blu Greenberg, Phyllis Chesler, Susan Weidman Schneider, and Francine Klagsbrun are going to speak out.
Please join us for a Press Conference with
Blu Greenberg, leading Orthodox Jewish feminist
Phyllis Chesler, feminist author
Susan Weidman Schneider, editor of Lilith Magazine
Francine Klagsbrun, writer
With special statements from Cynthia Ozick and Suzannah Heschel.
When:
1: 30 PM, Tuesday January 15
Where: American Jewish Congress
825 Third Avenue, 18th Floor, New York
(212) 879-4500
01.19.08 at 10:01 pm
I agree. I will not be renewing my subscription to Ms. after this.
01.21.08 at 1:01 am
good to hear WB3.14.
make sure you tell them why you will not be renewing.