Material Maidel
Choosing To Cover My Hair, Then Not To
When I was an 18-year old yeshiva student, my friends and I would ask every teacher we had to give us a talk on our favorite topic. And it wasn’t sex. It was head-covering. Considering that the prevalent issue on our minds was marriage, we were desperate to get some expert advice on how to make the biggest choice of our lives: hat or wig, leave out the ponytail or stuff it in — or for some, like me, to cover or not to cover.
Judy Blume: 'I Was Margaret' and Other Tidbits From Blogland
Over at Tablet, food writer Mimi Sheraton offers a meditation on the exalted, lemony etrog.
Those Passover Pounds
New posts by two of the bloggers I frequently check in on — a young woman whose nom de blog is Material Maidel and Elana Sztokman – focus on food and Pesach.