The Frumanista

I have been quiet this last few months. Obviously, nothing that I've been thinking of sharing has seemed important. The words that usual...

So, how's everyone holding up?  Not too good?  Yeah. I can relate.  I've been thinking out loud with Han—who mostly listens politely...

Be private. Travel and tell no one. Find a partner and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things. I saw this o...

I've been reading It's OK You're Not OK by Megan Devine, and frankly, she sounds pissed .  She was actually a grief counselor b...

  Another takeaway from Picard 3:  For those who actually have an interest in watching it, I'll try to keep it vague enough not to cause...

I have a confession.  While this blog is vaguely Star Wars -themed, the truth is . . . I'm a Trekkie.  Luke raised me on The Next Genera...

NYTimes featured a rather long article about Greta Gerwig and her Barbie movie. In the very end of the piece, there's this bit from out...

Before we start, please read this , by the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. I read it a few weeks ago, on the Shabbos of the applicable parsh...

While I was born in the US, I was raised with European, old-world values, which would often have American contemporaries not quite getting w...

Ta told me a concept recently, which he ascribed to the Rambam (disclaimer: I didn't fact check). Why is there 613 mitzvos? We could jus...