For more than forty years, when summer came, I always left town, either for long weekends or for the entire summer. In other words, I simply took my work to another location—to New Hampshire,  Massachusetts, Vermont, or to East Hampton, Long Island, where once I had a place, a pre-revolutionary cottage: charming, low-ceilinged, uncomfortable, absolutely [...]

Editors Note: This was the week’s top post in the Feminist Hawks’ Nest at NewsReal Blog. It was originally published on August 3, 2010. We take our freedoms for granted in America and assume that everyone is either like us or wants to be. We find it hard to believe that this is not so. [...]

We take our freedoms for granted in America and assume that everyone is either like us or wants to be. We find it hard to believe that this is not so.
Of course, I am not talking about thee and me but about all those American journalists, academics, and politicians who actually believe that the Cordoba [...]

Editors Note: On Sundays we’re going to start a new feature where we republish some of the most popular and important posts of the week for those who might have missed them. This post by Phyllis Chesler was originally published on July 27, 2010.
So sayeth the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division.
On July 31, [...]

One year ago, Shane Michael Bauer/Bower, Joshua Fattal (whose father is of Iraqi descent), and Sarah Emily Shourd, three young American hikers, were arrested by Iranian forces for having wandered too close to the Iranian border. Charged with “espionage,” they remain in the dreadful Evin Prison. Today, Amnesty International has [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about a recent New Jersey appellate decision which reversed a lower court ruling which had refused to grant a battered and maritally raped woman a “final restraining order.” This kind of decision—and worse—is made every day in the American court system, and it exposes battered women and abused children to horrific suffering, [...]

So sayeth the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division.
On July 31, 2008, a couple was married by arrangement in Morocco when the bride was 17 years old. They moved to Bayonne, New Jersey, where the new husband found work as an accountant. The husband’s mother came to live with them.
On November 1st of that [...]

What’s the point of moving on to any other subject when this one seems to have gripped our nation, the media, and my own readers? Even my family is engaged in this conversation.
Thus—last night, at dinner, my son and daughter-in-law urged me to consider the possibility that the Gibson tapes were doctored, spliced-and-diced; that Grigorieva [...]

Syria—yes, Syria—Bashar Asad’s Syria–has just banned full face veils in their universities.
According to Syria’s minister of higher education, “All female students wearing the full face veil will be barred from Syrian university campuses … the niqab contradicts university ethics and compromises the government’s secular identity.”
Amazingly, the Minister confirmed that “hundreds of primary school teachers [...]

On July 13, the day before Bastille Day, France stood up for “la liberté, l’égalité, la sororité,” for the rights of French women and for Western values when the French lower house of parliament approved the ban on face veils. Even the French communists caved in to feminist pressure and did not oppose this ban. [...]