The Good:

• When divorce is a reason to celebrate. [Sisterhood]
• "If you're happy and you know it..." Ellen Goodman refutes the results of the so-called "Happiness Survey." [Boston Globe]
• Cory Kahaney (one of the hosts of Making Trouble) hits the borscht belt with her new play. [TheJewishWeek]
• "New Jews" are doin' it for themselves.  The post-baby-boom Jews embrace new approaches to Jewish culture and faith, which include praying in the desert, webcasting bible stories, organizing for non-Jewish causes, Jew-tattoos and punk rock. [CNN]
• With the emergence of women scholars in the Orthodox community, women are starting to talk about sex. [Forward]
• A National Women's History Museum on the National Mall?  A bill just moved on to the Senate! [Feministe]
• Rhode Island leads the way with a curriculum on teen dating violence! [WomensENews]
• More on the Jewy-ness of Glee. [Tablet]
• Not your everyday philanthropy: Clitoraid is an organization funding efforts to rebuild the clit-- (clitoruses? clitori?) of women who have experienced female genital mutilation.  [Clitoraid]
• “The Lady With All The Answers,” a new play about Ann Landers opens in NY. [Sisterhood]
• A new counter-terrorism report from the UN does a great job of considering and recognizing the rights of trans people! [Feministing]

The Bad:

• Gore Vidal is playing the "persecuted Jew" card for Roman Polanski.  Puh-leeeeze! [Tablet]
• More transphobia in the media: this time in Seventeen magazine. [QueersUnited]
• Why do strong women roles fail in Hollywood? [Washington Post]

The Bizarre:

• Swine Flu isn't kosher.  Good thing there are public health signs in Yiddish! [TruthPraiseandHelp]
• "Nice Jewish Boys" the new pin-up girls?  Hmm... [Forward]
• Hummus for dessert? [MyJewishLearning]

Is there a Jewish way to celebrate Halloween?  That seems to be the question for these Jewish writers.

• How to have a Jewish Halloween. [MyJewishLearning]
• A Hebrew Halloween: Looking at Jewish monsters. [Tablet]
• How pagan is too pagan? [Homeshuling]
• Jews and the occult. [Tablet]
• The pop-culture vampire trend goes Jewish in The Midnight Guardian. [Tablet]