Simi Lampert
By Simi Lampert
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Life Marriage Is Who You Marry
This is the tenth and final post in “Feminist, Orthodox and Engaged,” a series by Simi Lampert on love, sex and betrothal in the life of a Modern Orthodox woman. The other day my fiancé said to me, likely in response to something ridiculous that I’d just blurted out, “Marriage is whoever you marry.” I…
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Life It’s My Wedding … Right?
This post is the ninth in “Feminist, Orthodox and Engaged,” a series by Simi Lampert on love, sex and betrothal in the life of a Modern Orthodox woman. The number one lesson I’ve learned from planning my wedding is: This is not my wedding. Sure, I get to wear the ivory gown and the invitations…
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Life College Grads’ Wage Gap
I have some news that is going to shock everyone, so please, brace yourself. Maybe hold on to your framed diploma; you know, that piece of paper that cost you a good $160,000. Here it is: Women earn less money than men. Not so shocking after all, is it? But it should be. Because, as…
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Life Hello Husband, Goodbye Friends?
This post is the eighth in “Feminist, Orthodox and Engaged,” a series by Simi Lampert on love, sex and betrothal in the life of a Modern Orthodox woman. I got a text the other day from a friend: “Try not to become one of those mundane married people like everyone else.” He and I had…
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Opinion Rabbi’s Scandalous Crime? Using an iPhone.
Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, a top leader of the Israeli Haredi community, in at the center of a massive scandal. No, he wasn’t seen with a female escort, accused of child abuse, or fingered in some kind of money-laundering operation. But to the Haredi community, what he did might even be worse: Yitzhak was photographed the…
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The Schmooze Lady Hasidic Alt Rockers
To be honest, I didn’t expect Bulletproof Stockings to be good. What, I thought in the judgmental part of my mind, would two Chabad women from Brooklyn know about alternative rock? It turns out, quite a bit. Dalia G. Shusterman and Perl Wolfe, the current members of the female Hasidic alt. rock band, each had…
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Life Most Women Lie About Shopping
The number one point of conflict in most marriages is money, so much so that six out of 10 people who get divorced and enter a new relationship choose not to combine finances the second time around. And a new study by a leading coupon code Web site reveals what might be a contributing factor…
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The Schmooze In Defense of Jake Gyllenhaal
Part of being a journalist is correcting the injustices in this world, and I’m here to do just that for someone who’s been needlessly and heedlessly mistreated for so long that he has become nearly forgotten. I’m talking, of course, about Jake Gyllenhaal. The puppy-eyed actor, so fabulously crushable as recently as two years ago…
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