The Frumanista

Vita Kempner, hero of the Holocaust

The frum world is not immune to the current trend of polarization. If one dons a streimel, then he must be ______, ______, and ______. If o...

"You know, when you get to a certain age *sigh*, you just have to be willing to compromise."  Smile and wave, boys. Smile and...

Martha Beck on Falling into Intimacy

With marriage, it has become clear I was going about dating the wrong way.  "There I was," I said to Han, "making myself o...

I know I'm pretty late to the game, but I started watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend . While I personally can't stand stories about women...

How to Speak Grief

I suppose our grandparents, if they saw our lives today as things were in the 1940s, would have had a good laugh: specifically, in regard t...

"How's married life?" she asks. I visualize her over the phone, a lovely 80-year-old. "Very good," I reply.  ...