Well ladies, if you had any dreams of bringing Adam Levine home for Shabbat dinner, you can cast them aside. The Maroon 5 singer and “Voice” judge announced last night that he was engaged to Behati Prinsloo, his third Victoria’s Secret model girlfriend. The couple, who have been dating for a little over a year,…
A Facebook petition to remove an anti-Israel page that uses an expletive in its name has 75,000 likes, the removal campaign’s creator says. Michael Mendelson of Miami told JTA by telephone that the removal petition against the “Fuck Israel” page has been on Facebook for less than a week; the number of likes is as…
Being single can be disheartening, but probably not for the reasons coupled people think. It’s less about doing every little task by yourself or living in fear of dying alone and unloved. It’s more about absorbing society’s sneaky, sometimes blatant reminders that, as a single person, you don’t fully exist. You are a faded black…
Like most women, I found engagement to be a journey. Unlike most women, I decided to share that journey with the readers of the Forward. Over the latter part of my six-month engagement to Jeremy, I blogged for the Sisterhood (using my maiden name, Lampert) in a series called “Feminist, Orthodox and Engaged.” I wrote…
A religious group wrings its hands over youth “leaving” or “rethinking their commitment to the faith.” Must be Jews, right? But — surprise! — this “dropout problem” belongs to right-of-center Christian denominations, according to a recent survey. Here we thought that Jewish teens were the only ones to go missing from religious action. Now we…
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…
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…
Like most young, engaged Modern Orthodox women, Tova decided to go on the birth control pill when she and her husband got engaged. Tova, who asked to go by a pseudonym, visited the gynecologist, spoke to her kallah teacher, and learned about the pill from her friends. As the most viable form of birth control…
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