“You know, you better be careful…that’s the second time you lowered your mask, and I’m going to report you….you’ll be kicked off the plane!” A woman to my right on the plane about to take off was clearly very angry. In my seat on a flight with my husband sleeping… Read More
Last week I wrote an article here about a reality television show that I found entertaining but misleading. The star of the show left her religion and became wildly successful as a fashion designer and CEO of a top modeling agency. But, my complaint about this woman is not her… Read More
When I noticed the word “uplift” a few weeks ago on an instagram account, I was intrigued. Seemed positive and well….uplifting. One of my values in life – given my tendency to (sometimes!) focus on the downside of things. I soon discovered after scrolling through the account, that Uplift is… Read More
Reality television documents a fake world these days, most recently that of My Unorthodox Life, the new show about Julia Haart‘s exit from the Orthodox religious community. Most sellable to the media was her rags-to-riches meteoric rise to CEO of a modeling company, designer of shoes, culminating in the main… Read More
This week my friend and I celebrate our first “learn-a-versary!” (That’s the anniversary of when we started to learn together!) Elena Polyak-Duke and I first spoke by phone on July 7, 2020. We are officially part of Partners-in-Torah (PIT), a program that matches up pairs of Jewish women from across the… Read More
