In the least surprising news, Stephen Miller is once again a shanda fur di goyim. In case you missed it, in the White House Press Conference From Hell, the president’s advisor insisted that using the Statue of Liberty as an American icon for welcoming immigrants is fallacious because Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus,” was added later.

Folks on the Internet have come through and made great points, like that the Statue of Liberty got the plaque the same year Miller’s Yiddish-speaking great-grandparents immigrated to this country. But of course, nothing makes a salient political point like a humorous tweet:

"In conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty." pic.twitter.com/iNdeyvDDtU

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) August 3, 2017

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When considering this year’s options, we realized Today is International Women’s Day (and the Women’s General Strike). And so, here are a list of Jewish women you should portray for Purim (though anyone of any gender can rock these looks!).

Specifically, these are fictional women, because 1) Reality is too weird and surreal right now, 2) These figures are culturally iconic, and 3) Someone at that party is already going to be the Notorious R.B.G., so you might as well go a different route:

Cher Horowitz belongs at the top of this list. Do we need to explain why? As if! Good luck picking just one look, though we suggest the yellow plaid. Besides, now is her time:

Baby Houseman from Dirty Dancing, OF COURSE! Wear a tank top and jean shorts, or capris with a shirt tied above your navel. When in doubt, carry a watermelon. Make a male partner wear all black and generally look like Patrick Swayze. Everybody wins. Bonus points for doing the lift.

Rebecca of York (from Ivanhoe) isn’t as big of a name as some of the others on this list, but she’s A) great and B) an excuse to recycle your garb from the Renaissance Faire (if you’re the type of person to choose this costume, you already have the dress). Plus, real life icon/Jewish woman Elizabeth Taylor played her— consider it a layered reference.

Batwoman, the superhero alter-ego of Kate Kane, is both Jewish, and gay— did you know? Rock the bodysuit. She has an A+ cape:

Kitty Pryde is another Jewish superhero (her queerness isn’t canon, but boy are there some convincing think pieces), and she has the benefit of changing her costume every freaking five minutes. Your possibilities are endless. And pretty please, someone, anyone, do the costume where she wears striped thigh-highs and roller skates.

Once, for Purim I dressed as how Kitty Pryde would dress if she were Wolverine for Purim. Yes, really:

Willow Rosenberg is the last niche, geeky choice on the list. But she’s a great one— gay, Jewish, a literal witch. Bonus points if you’re Vampire Willow (which also works if you have dark hair rather than red).

Fran Fine. Beehive. Leopard print. Nasal impersonation that will get you kicked out of a party. Go kill it.

Rhoda Morgenstern is one of the most important Jewish women on TV— way before Rebecca Bunch or Grace Adler, and boy did she have style. Find your most 70s shirt, and tie a scarf on your head. Voilà— an homage to Valerie Harper.

We confess that this list is disappointingly white— Jewish fictional characters skew way more homogeneous than we actually are, and rare Jews of color in media tend to be male. But there is Cristina Yang from Grey’s Anatomy who’s both Asian-American and Jewish (and scrubs and a name tag make for an easy costume). And written fiction offers significantly more options, like in the fantasy world of Shira Glassman (also, bonus points because it’s super queer). It’s not as obvious a choice as Cher, but we have to build our icons somehow.

Pretty please tweet us pictures of your costume! And hurry— you only have a few days left!

Images via Wikimedia, except for the embarrassing one of the writer, via Facebook.

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“Who wants to have sex with Paul Rudd? He has more money than Jason Segal!”

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Throughout the past week, Vulture has been taking a close look at iconic pop-culture films/TV shows/etc via their micro oral histories series.

Best one so far? Gathering Amy Heckerling (writer-director), Breckin Meyer (Travis Birkenstock), Alicia Silverstone (Cher Horowitz), Jeremy Sisto (Elton), Donald Faison (Murray Duvall) and…wait for it…Coolio (rapper whose “Rolling with the homies” tune set the scene for Tai and Elton’s duet) to discuss the oral history of the Clueless party scene.

Cher in the red dress, Tai googly-eyed over Elton, Murray getting his head shaved; there’s just too many awesome parts of this scene/movie, entirely.

Some highlights, including lots of love for the late, great Brittany Murphy:

Silverstone: I love the suck and blow thing — am I saying that right? I love that, when Jeremy gets in there and tries to snag a kiss. I just love it. [laughs] I definitely hadn’t heard of [the game before the movie]. I’ve never heard of it again since then.

Silverstone: I love when Brittany Murphy does her little “rolling with the homies” [hand gesture]. It’s so sweet. She was so special for that role and just adorable and lovely and brilliant. It’s so weird to think she’s not around anymore. It seems very abstract. [Murphy died in 2009.]

Faison: She had that spark, you know what I mean? I honestly believe that’s why everybody remembers the song because one, she’s so cute when she sings it. Two, you didn’t expect that voice to come out of that girl when she sang. So when she does that line, it’s like, “Holy cow, she can sing?”

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• Blah, blah, blah: Mila and Ashton is really happening.

• The New York Post sent a gift basket to Ahmadinejad, in town for the U.N. General Assembly. The contents? “Gold’s Borscht, Manischewitz Gefilte Fish, H&H bagels, onion bialys and Zabar’s cream cheese.”

• Natalie Portman is blonde now.

• Israel didn’t make it to the World Baseball Classic, which means we won’t see Kevin Youkilis playing for the Holy Land after all.

• The Broke Girl’s Guide to Living Like Clueless’ Cher Horowitz, courtesy of Hello Giggles.

• Homeland won big at the Emmy’s last night, and Claire Danes stole the show with the most amazing line ever: “Mandy Patinkin, holla.”

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The Coveteur, a website that gives voyeuristic fashionistas glimpses into the closets of their favorite style icons, went where we’ve all been dying to go since Clueless came out 17 years ago: Cher Horowitz’s closet.

The hyper-matching, meticulously accessorized high school student had a closet for the ages. Motorized racks that recalled clothing when her totally 90s computer program selected outfits? Clothing and shoes arranged, and displayed, by color? There was nothing that closet couldn’t do.

The Clueless-inspired Coveteur feature also lets you ‘Shop the Look’ for different scenes from the movie, but come on, there’s no beating Cher. The girl single-handedly drove up the value of Polaroid stock after declaring that she didn’t trust mirrors.

Happy 17th birthday, Clueless! What she said:

#Clueless turns 17 today. So she’s still a virgin who can’t drive.

— TheFFJD.com/Meredith (@TheFFJD) July 23, 2012

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• Gefilteria, which we profiled earlier this month, gets the Times treatment.

• A look at Barbra Streisand’s look while filming Funny Girl.

• Rachel Shukert points out there are four different Jesuses on the New York stage right now.

• Joan Rivers mocks Alicia Silverstone’s baby-feeding video-gone-viral by chewing food and spitting it into Kelly Osbourne’s mouth.

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• Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film, The Dictator, is pretty much what you expected.

• The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee visited the Park Slope Food Coop, and it was amazing.

• OMG, Whoopi’s going to be on Glee.

• The New York Knicks’ Landry Fields tweets from Carnegie Deli.

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