Tova Stulman
By Tova Stulman
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Life Stop Spoiling Your Kids On Hanukkah
Most parents want to give their children the world. But it’s sometimes difficult to know when to draw the line between giving our kids the world and ensuring they don’t grow up spoiled, having everything handed to them. This line becomes especially hard to navigate around Hanukkah, as our children are bombarded with the overt…
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Life Forgiving An Ex — While Co-Parenting With Him
I’ve co-parented with a husband I loved, a husband with whom I was miserable but who was on the same parental page as me, and an ex-husband who was my good friend. Now, for the first time, I am co-parenting with an ex-husband with whom I have an acrimonious relationship and who has increasingly divergent ideas from my…
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Food Everything You Missed At Kosherfest 2017
Those who suffer from claustrophobia but possess a deep and abiding love of Jewish food — especially when it’s being given away in free samples — always have to face the cost-benefit analysis when considering whether to attend Kosherfest. The annual two-day mega food conference held at the Meadowlands Expo each year draws thousands of…
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Life Why The Women’s Confessional Essay Is Here To Stay
Recently, there’s been a lot of debate about the value of the personal essay – especially the women’s personal essay – a genre which has taken over online media publications with vigor in the last decade. Jia Tolentino, in her New Yorker essay in May, “The Personal Essay Boom Is Over”, wrote about the increasing…
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Life Angela Merkel Got Erased — Don’t We Have Better Things To Worry About?
My friends and family find it alternatively bizarre and comical that I so eagerly consume an array of ultra-Orthodox publications whenever I visit my hometown of Flatbush, Brooklyn. But I think it’s edifying to learn what other people — especially Jews — who who hold opinions and convictions different than my own are saying. In…
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Life Don’t Judge Hasidic Seat-Switchers
Thinkstock I know I run the risk of relinquishing some modicum of feminist street cred and incurring the wrath of all those up in arms over the situation, but here goes: I am not offended when the Hasidic gentleman next to me asks to switch his seat so he might not fly an entire flight…
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The Schmooze Growing Up Orthodox With Robin Williams
School was out on that wintry day around Thanksgiving of 1993, and my mother was charged with taking care of me, my siblings, and my best friend of that particular week. It was too cold to play outdoors, so my mother, car-less for the day, schlepped all of us on the B44 city bus to…
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Opinion Gaza War Proves My Pro-Israel Dad Was Right
It pains and shocks me to say this, but here goes: My father was right all along. He always told me, as I spouted liberal talking points at the Shabbos table and challenged his hawkish views on Israel and the Palestinians to his unending chagrin, that I would one day change my tune. I guess…
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