Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Media

Selected Newspaper and Magazine Stories & Anthology Bylines

Moment Magazine Fall 2021 "We Know it When We See It." Jews don't need an official definiton of antiSemitism.

Moment Magazine, Spring 2021 "A Confederation for Israel-Palestine." If the two-state solution is going to survive, confederation is the framework that can make it happen.

Dwelling in a Time of Plagues, published March, 2021 by The Jewish Book Council, includes Pogrebin's essay "The Plague of Ageism."

The New Jewish Canon, published July 2020 - includes excerpt from, and commentary on Pogrebin's Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female & Jewish in America.

NY Times May 29, 2020 "Feminist vs. Anti-Feminists."

Scroll down past the Trump letters to find Pogrebin's Letter to the Editor disputing actress Cate Blanchett's views of the women's movement.

The Forward, May 24, 2020 "Boomers Becoming Zoomers is a Feminist Triumph." The pandemic has forced formerly tech-resistant older women to join the world of social media and navigate electronic meetings. Which is a good thing.

Moment Magazine, Spring 2020 "Mrs. America Got It Wrong"

Pogrebins critique of the Hulu series about Phyllis Schlafly, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan and other leaders of the women's movement of the 1970s and beyond.

Moment Magazine, Winter 2020 "The Life-Changing Magic of Clutter."

LCP explains why she can't throw away her stuff.

Moment Magazine, Fall 2019| "A Feminist Bounty–and Quandary" So many excellent women candidates for President -- should we choose one now?

Moment Magazine, March-April 2019 | "Jews of Color Are Us" Moment Magazine

A wake up call for white American Jews. Pogrebin says we've been tone deaf and oblivious to the black and brown members of our tribe

NY Times, Dec 28, 2018 | AntiSemitism in the Women's March

Pogrebin's Letter to the Editor of the Times in response to reports of a split among organizers of the 2019 Women's Marches

Moment magazine, Nov-Dec 2018 |The Many Gradations of #MeToo

MeToo has become WeToo in the Jewish world Pogrebin asks, what should the penalties be for sex harassers in the Jewish community? What constitutes teshuvah, redemption, and repair by perpetrators and by those in power who covered up the abuse to save their institutions?

Tikkun magazine, Oct 23, 2018 | Beyond Patriarchy

An antidote for political despair addressed to radical pessimists and aspiring optimists in time to arouse their activism before the mid-term Election Day 2018

Tablet magazine, Oct. 22, 2018 | The Most Famous Israeli You've Never Heard Of,

Pogrebin's review of Alice Shalvi's book, Never A Native, extols the author's candor and literary grace.

Moment magazine, July/August 2018 | In Praise of Tribalism

A column about Jewish belonging -- the question of whether to count oneself into "the Jewish people" with its proud achievements and miraculous survival or, because of our internal divisiveness and the wrongs occasionally committed in our name, to count oneself out.

Moment magazine, March/April 2018 | "Shlomo Carlebach's Tangled Legacy"

He was a charismatic rabbi-composer whose music forms the soundtrack of Jewish life. He was also a serial sex abuser, even of underage girls. So what should we do with the music?

New York Times, Jan. 14, 2018 | Letter to the Editor, Has #MeToo Gone Too Far? I say it hasn't.

Moment magazine, November 2017 | Seeing Israel in Its contradictory Glory

American missions to Israel need to expand their scope beyond hasbara.

Moment magazine, July/August 2017 | "Waiting for Gadot: Wonder Woman alone can't make Israel 'normal.'"

Haaretz, May 20, 2017 | "For 40 Years, I've Fought for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. But a Trump-brokered Deal? No Thanks." OpEd

Haaretz, Mar 9, 2017 | "Am I Too Dangerous To Enter Israel" Op-ed

Pogrebin's reaction to Israel's new "entry law" banning those who are critical of the government's settlement policy or who do not condemn all aspects of the BDS movement.

Moment Magazine, Mar/Apr 2017 | "How to Live With the Elephant in the Room"

American Jews need to stop turning a blind eye to the violent resettlement of Israel's Bedouins.

Moment Magazine, May-June 2013 | The Knesset's "Year of the Woman"

The Daily Beast, Feb 11, 2013 | (Part I) The Feminine Mystique at 50

Three feminists, myself included, revisit an early iconic "bible" of Second Wave feminism

Moment Magazine, Jan-Feb 2013 | Why can't we show empathy to the Palestinians without being accused of disloyalty to Israel?

The Daily Beast, July 13, 2017 | Zionism meet Feminism

Pogrebin on Where Zionism and feminism must meet

The Daily Beast, July 13, 2017 | How to Revive The Peace Process: A Modest Proposal

LCP on Why Obama should name Bill Clinton to be Special Emissary for Mid-East peace

Moment Magazine, Oct. 16, 2012 | Does Birth Control Trump Israel?

LCP on "Does Birth Control Trump Israel?"

New York Times, Sept. 23, 2012 | Central Park Rape Case

LCP's Letter to the Editor about rape of the Central Park birder

The Forward, March 13, 2011 | The 'A-Word' in Hebron

LCP on Disturbing developments in Hebron

The Forward

Op-Ed Page: LCP Guest Editor and author of the introduction to four extraordinary op-eds by members of her Palestinian/Jewish dialogue group which has been meeting since 2008.

Periodicals that have published Letty's writings

GENERAL INTEREST

Articles Published In:American Health, Beliefnet.com, Bell Records, Boardroom Reports, Boston Sunday Globe, Boston Herald Advertiser, Bottom Line, Commercial News-Danville, Ill., CommonQuest, Congress Monthly, The Daily Beast, The Forward, George magazine, Huffington Post, Marriage Partnership, Memories, Moment, Ms. magazine, The Nation, New Choices, The New Haven Journal, New York Daily News, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times "Hers" Column, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times-Op-Ed, The New York Times-Travel Section, Newsday, Newsday's "In Person" column, On The Issues, Philadelphia Inquirer, Reader's Digest, The Reading Teacher, Special Report, Sport Magazine, Tablet, Time, Tikkun, Travel & Leisure, TV Guide, Variety, Washington Post WOMEN'S INTEREST > Lilith, Chatelaine, One Woman's Voice, Seventeen, Brides, Sisterhood Blog, Family Circle, Femina, Ladies Home Journal ("The Working Woman" column ran for 10 years), Cosmopolitan, Elle, Essence, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Mirabella, More Magazine, Ms. Magazine, NCJW Journal. JEWISH INTEREST & ISRAEL Beliefnet.com, Moment, Tikkun, The Forward, Tablet, Israel Horizons, The Jewish Journal, The (Manhattan) Jewish Sentinel, The (NY) Jewish Week, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, Lilith, Na'amat Woman, The North American Jewish Forum, Palm Beach Jewish Journal, Present Tense, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle.

WOMEN'S INTEREST

Articles Published In:Lilith, Chatelaine, One Woman's Voice, Seventeen, Brides, Sisterhood Blog, Family Circle, Femina, Ladies Home Journal ("The Working Woman," monthly column ran for 10 years),Cosmopolitan, Elle, Essence, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Mirabella, More Magazine, Ms. Magazine, NCJW Journal.

JEWISH INTEREST (ISRAEL)

Articles Published In:Beliefnet.com, Moment, Tikkun, The Forward, Tablet, Israel Horizons, The Jewish Journal, The (Manhattan) Jewish Sentinel, The (NY) Jewish Week, The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, Lilith, Na'amat Woman, The North American Jewish Forum, Palm Beach Jewish Journal, Present Tense, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle.

Articles about Letty

Lilith Magazine, December 2015

Novel featured in 7 Jewish Feminist Highlights of 2015

Rollins 360, November 24, 2015

On Letty's Talk: Making Change Together

Hadassah Magazine, September 2013 | Profile of LCP

Brandeis Magazine, Fall 2012/Winter 2013 | The Brandeis Questionnaire
LCP profile & interview on her college days in the Fifties

NYTimes, October 18th, 2010 | In 'Mad Men,' She Would Have Been Peggy

LCP interviewed by Susan Dominus on TV series about the Sixties

Publishers Weekly, February 2013 | Review of How to Be a Friend