The Frumanista

I don't usually binge tv. I pride myself that I don't binge tv.  Then I binged (to the best of my mothering ability) the end of...

I finished "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" by Lori Gottlieb, a therapist who finds she needs therapy.  She brings sagas of...

Shabbos was drawing to a close. I had coaxed Ben to eat his supper, belting out zemiros to keep him content. I changed him into the new paj...

When the libraries are shut down, it can be a lifesaver to bump into a reader whilst out for a stroll. Then you can negotiate an exchange. ...

One of the basic tenets of Judaism is teshuva, repentance; that (nearly) all sins can be washed away if we truly regret our actions and wor...

A few weeks ago, a frum periodical fielded a question—the writer's friend is "a bit much," and she finds her too draining. Ca...

"So what are these for?" I ask over Ben's hysterical wailing.  "This one is for meningitis, and this one is for pneu...

"My friend married at 40," she was saying over the phone. "She says he was everything she could have wanted, he's her Mr...

While I do admit to being a worrier, I don't worry about world events. I worry about minor things, like will Ben end up with a girl who...

She couldn't bear matchmaking. In Southampton friends had tried over the years, and it had never worked. There was normally a reason wh...