“It was nissim [miracles]. What else can I tell you, mameleh? I heard yesterday, they were telling me what’s going on in the world. We need nissim.”
Orthodox leaders are increasingly policing the length of women’s wigs. One women was even prevented from buying a house in Lakewood.
From burqa bans to sheitel shaming, women who cover are often viewed as victims of patriarchy or religious extremists. Wrapunzel inverts that dynamic.
This is the frum version of “slut shaming”: Woman, your rabbinically mandated headcovering is really “asking for it.” So tone it down.
But good luck taking on the $1 billion human-hair industry.
First there was “Tinder for bras.” Now there’s a Yelp for sheitels, the wigs worn by many married Orthodox Jewish women.
Did women wear wigs in Biblical times? Does covering one’s head with real hair defeat the premise of halachic modesty? Everything our ‘Taxonomy of the Sheitel’ left out, revealed!
Everything you ever wanted to know about religious Jewish wigs, but were too afraid to ask. Frimet Goldberger breaks down what each wig means for the woman who wears it.
Everything you ever wanted to know about religious Jewish wigs, but were too afraid to ask. Frimet Goldberger breaks down what each wig means for the woman who wears it.
Before she became a writer, Frimet Goldberger was a wig stylist. She shares in the ins and outs of grooming the women of Kiryas Joel.