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title: "Song of 'Ourselves'"
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
author: OBOS Admin
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Song of 'Ourselves'

The Jewish Daily Forward • January 15, 2014

> Did this mean I could know my body, but hide it from the world? That doesn’t fall far from one understanding of religious modesty: women hide themselves for and from others. But OBOS insisted that there was no “women and their bodies” — only us, “we.” We girls in the pool, breathless with our own speed. We, a pronoun that witnesses.

  
**Read the full story:** [Song of 'Ourselves'](http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/190847/song-of-ourselves/) by Leah Falk

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