Shira Shmeterling

Why I Decided To Shave My Head — For Better Or Worse

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. There’s a joke among Hasidim that a boy receives a prayer book in honor of his upsherin (at age three), and a girl receives one for her upsherin as well – when her hair is shaved after marriage. One of the first questions that I asked a…