{"id":182,"date":"2010-03-09T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T23:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:27:39","slug":"guestblogging-at-jwa-crosspost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/guestblogging-at-jwa-crosspost\/","title":{"rendered":"Guestblogging at JWA &#8211; crosspost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hasoferet.com\/images\/barbie4.jpg\" style=\"padding:5px; float:right;\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know Barbie&#8217;s getting a new job,&#8221; says my friend Mimi to me. &#8220;People can vote for her new career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I put tefillin on a Mattel Barbie doll in 2006, unwittingly creating the Jewish icon now known as Tefillin Barbie. Tefillin Barbie has a frum-girl denim skirt, a T-shirt, the tallit and tefillin more generally worn by Orthodox men during morning prayer, and a volume of Talmud; a whimsical activity for a vacation morning, she generated a vast and wholly unanticipated amount of reaction, positive and negative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hurrah,&#8221; people say. &#8220;Now we can have Rabbi Barbie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But why, people? Why? Barbie put on tefillin and picked up a gemara, so now she has to be a rabbi? Why can&#8217;t she be an IT engineer who prays with tefillin and learns gemara in her lunch break?<\/p>\n<p><b>Read the rest of this post at <a href=\"http:\/\/jwablog.jwa.org\/tefillin-barbie%27s-new-career\">http:\/\/jwablog.jwa.org\/tefillin-barbie%27s-new-career<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know Barbie&#8217;s getting a new job,&#8221; says my friend Mimi to me. &#8220;People can vote for her new career.&#8221; I put tefillin on a Mattel Barbie doll in 2006, unwittingly creating the Jewish icon now known as Tefillin Barbie. Tefillin Barbie has a frum-girl denim skirt, a T-shirt, the tallit and tefillin more generally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-tefillin-barbie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hasoferet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}