Frimet Goldberger
By Frimet Goldberger
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Life Having the Period Talk
Thinkstock The queries “What is the right age to talk with your children about puberty?” and “How to prevent precocious puberty” — thanks to a friend who scared the living daylights out of me recently — have filled my Google search history of the past few weeks. You see, my daughter, who is seven, was…
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News My Time at Satmar Summer Camp
Recently my 9-year-old son came home from school demanding I sign him up for sleep-away camp, which, he insisted, his best friend is attending for the entire summer. I nearly fell off the chair imagining my kid, who often forgets to remove his pajamas before he puts on his shorts on summer mornings, fending for…
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Life When SCOTUS and Hasidic Courts Look Same
Adam Jones / Global Photo Archive On Monday, the Supreme Court took the position of so many dayanim (a judge in a religious court, but in the Hasidic world, also a man who rules authoritatively on everyday halachic questions) and rabbis across the world in symbolically declining women reproductive autonomy. (I use the word “symbolically”…
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Life Hey, Are You Proud of Raunchy Comic Kid?
America’s Got Talent Dear Tina Orlian (Former Sword-Swallower), I would like to begin my letter by thanking you for allowing your son, Josh Orlian, to entertain us on America’s Got Talent the other night. As every good Jew, I watched your 12-year-old son, whom your family has embraced as Naughty Josh in these cute Instagram…
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Life It’s Time for a #Balebuste Revolution
When I am asked to write a bio of myself and my very short career as a writer, I am always tempted to add “balebuste” next to “writer” and “mother.” But instead of using a word that connotes housewife, I settle for “baker,” because, let’s face it, bakers can be learned and cultured, whereas balebustes…
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Life To The Father Who Raised Us — My Husband
Frimet Goldberger’s children, Shloimy, age 9 and Rachel, age 7. While the daughters and sons of America are celebrating their fathers, I am spending my Father’s Day celebrating my husband, the man who raised us — our family — and stood by me through the tumultuous journey to help me build a new foundation from…
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Life Why Women Are the New Gatekeepers of Modesty
Getty Images // Ultra-Orthodox women in Israel Who are the gatekeepers of the conservative religious ideal of tznius, or modesty? This question has been argued and parsed on social media and on blogs in recent years as radicalism in the ultra-Orthodox communities has taken on new and more visible forms. A common misperception is that…
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Life How I Learned My Opinions Matter
Frimet Goldberger and her children at her graduation from Sarah Lawrence College Three weeks ago, I learned that Barbara Walters gets her gumption from my alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College. The legendary female doyen of American media made a surprise appearance to rousing applause before Fareed Zakaria’s keynote address. In her two-minute speech, Walters quoted…
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