The Frumanista

Between Ma and I, I used to be a Sephora VIB Rouge member (that meant I spent a small fortune during their sales). But hey, I was unmarried ...

  In my single years, I was a regular shul goer. Nearly every week, I would spend precious minutes before lechtzin hair styling and makeup a...

"Deserve" is a word that makes me nervous.  It's a word that is bandied about a lot nowadays. Strangers on social media, for i...

Iliza Schlesinger, Confirmed Kills :  ". . . The moral of that story is I was in a relationship and I wasn't happy so I left the re...

A nd you will always be "too much" for some people. Too kind. To friendly. Too sensitive. Too giving. Too loud. Too quiet. Too lov...

  Frum people sometimes think the grass is greener on the other side. "Oh, if I wasn't frum, such-and-such wouldn't be an issue...

The second aspect of the book that I noted . . .  It's not like Tate came from an abusive home. Her parents were solid Catholic Texans. ...

I don't usually read much non-fiction, but I seem to be drawn to therapy memoirs. The first, Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk t...

Continuing on the idea of Jewish food, Padma Lakshmi's "Taste the Nation" had a Jewish food episode circling around Chanukah. ...

Is there such a thing as "Jewish food"?  I belong to a number of Jewish food groups. Some are more cultural, shall we say, than re...