The Frumanista

Silence is often the best thing to say. — Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert Disease enter by the mouth, misfortunes come from it. — Ch...

1) The viral video of teenage Jewish boys saving the world (or a planted Spongebob decoy).  2) Voldemort gets funky. Click on the...

He was a Brooklyn yeshiva boy, brighter than most. Following his marriage, he attended college at night. He eventually made it to Columbia ...

She usually did her hair herself, so she had got the name of the establishment from Lucy, thinking she would know about such places; but pe...

Come every June, my neighborhood boasts an influx of returning daughters, fresh from seminary. They troop into shul bright-eyed, hair fresh...

I can be obsessive about new discoveries. Some experiments fail; a goodly number succeed.  I posted about my surprising delight ("...

I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts—men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp sword...

I initially purchased a food scale for accurate recipes (that's my story, and I'm sticking with it),  but upon its arrival I began...

Friendship is just . . . so much work .  I hate phone conversations. Half the time I have no idea what the other person said, but she...

I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe . . . The greatest palatinate earl and the lowest stipendiary ser...