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Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts
Sunday, January 4, 2015

My Reaction to "My Wig Was Beautiful and Expensive, and Everybody Loved It—Except Me"

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This woman  writes about her journey and struggle with hair covering .  She begins with the sheitel that she didn't really want to wear ...
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Talking About Coverings of Different Sorts

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I'm once again thinking about how I talk about how and why I cover.  I'm rather waiting for my new Hebrew school class to ask about ...
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Monday, December 2, 2013

Reaction: "My Kippah, Myself"

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This article  resonates with my own experiences.  It is one woman's description of her experiences wearing a kippah for the last 20 year...
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Sunday, November 17, 2013

A Comment Worth The Sharing: On Passing And Jewish Identity

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Liz Shayne offered these thoughts as a comment on a previous post .  I found them really interesting, and from a perspective that was new to...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

"Holy Hair": Interfaith Awarenesses

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Over on Morethodoxy, Rachel Kohl Finegold shares her experience of an interfaith panel at Le Mood.  In short, in reaction to Quebec's p...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

So You May Have Noticed Some Changes

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The blog was starting to refuse to show me comments again, and I couldn't fix it (last time I just ignored it for a while, and one day t...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

My Ambivalence About How-To Style Videos

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I just came across a bunch of how-to videos that Judith De Paris, an online tichel seller, has up, explaining how to put on the various styl...
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Haircut, Style, and Covering

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I read this article a few days ago, and somehow, although it's explicitly about short haircuts, and eccentric haircuts, it felt like so...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Head Covering as a Spiritual Practice: My Story

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When I started wearing a kippah, it was a spiritual practice.  It made me more aware of my tefillah, it made me more aware of God's pres...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Being Seen: A Reflection on "My Fashion Choices—and My Husband’s—Reveal the Risks of Looking Hasidic"

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A friend pointed out this article, in which the author compares how it felt to wear a wig on the train on her own, to do so in the company ...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

What We Get Away With

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I've never been the most meticulous about my hair maintenance.  I've had long hair since I was quite young, so I've never had th...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Inspiration

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Once in a while, I start to feel like I'm doing the same things with my head, over and over again.  I feel that way about clothing rathe...
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Monday, February 4, 2013

A Couple of Links and My Thoughts

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Here's another post with advice on what sorts of hats suit which face shapes .  I'm still looking for one that takes into account th...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

What Do You Get From Covering?

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This post about wearing hijab is really very thoughtful, while still being an easy read.  I think a lot of it holds true for Jewish (marrie...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

When You Hide Something...

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A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with some of my colleagues, and we were, for some reason, discussing hair.  I was mostly listening- I d...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Blogging My Interests and Anxieties

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When I started this blog, I said I'd be writing about all sorts of aspects of Jewish head-covering: personal experiences, source texts, ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Post Yom Kippur Musing

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Now that Yom Kippur is over (and my husband isn't home yet- he was away leading services elsewhere, I was home), I've been thinking ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Follow-Up On Work Anxieties

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After the concerns I wrote about before starting work, you might be surprised at the outcome.  Although I’d contemplated trying to make my...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Are You A Rabbi?

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“Are you going to be a rabbi?”  For several years after I started wearing a kippah, I got asked this question in all sorts of places.  At ...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

And What Will the Children Do?

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We went to our nephew's chalake (like an upsherin, only Sephardi- a boy's first haircut at age 3, where he also gets his first kippa...
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