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A Merger for the Rabbi and the Labor Leader

By Alix Strauss — 2018

Randi Weingarten and Rabbi Sharon Anne Kleinbaum are to be married March 25 at La Marina, a restaurant in New York. Judge Michelle Schreiber of the New York City Housing Court, is to officiate, with Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, the president of Hebrew College, leading the religious ceremony, which will include the signing of the ketubah.

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Managing the Flames of Conflict

Conflict doesn’t mean the end of your remarriage, and can actually make it stronger. There are always going to be disagreements; you cannot avoid them entirely. What you can do, however, is become skilled at recovering from disputes by talking about your perspectives afterwards.

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Is It Self-Care, or Is It Capitalism?

So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.

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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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What Loneliness Does to the Human Body

The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.

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Is Love Really Sweeter the Second Time Around?

It was during these awkward fertility treatments that it dawned on me that there were some dramatic differences between my first and second marriages.

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Raising LGBTQ+ Kids

Your child just came out to you. Now what? Here are some things to keep in mind. 

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An Introduction to Transgender Well-Being

It is important to note that every person’s gender journey is unique.

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Positive LGBTQ Representation in Media Really Can Change Lives. This Touching Story Proves It.

She saw a gay character in Supergirl come out and still be loved—and it changed her life.

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It’s Perfectly OK to Call a Disabled Person ‘Disabled,’ and Here’s Why

We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.

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