Halberstam knew all of this because her own son had been going through the matchmaking procedure: “I feel just a little sad every time the fax machine cranks away yet another rГ©sumГ© for my son. I understand complete well that we now have great girls available to you who will be their equals—perhaps even their superiors—who aren’t receiving comparable treatment… I ache with regards to their moms, whom repeatedly call the shadchanim [matchmakers] whom never call right back, but they are visibly more responsive if you’re the caretaker of a kid. Inwardly, I rail up against the unfairness from it all.”
Right here Halberstam went from the rails. She proceeded to spell it out attending a residential area occasion where women that are single introduced to moms of solitary men—and being “jolted” by the subpar appearance of this girls.
“Yes,” she had written, “spiritual beauty makes a woman’s eyes glow and casts a luminous sheen over her face; there’s absolutely no beauty such as a soul that is pure. Continue reading “Anorexia is becoming a peaceful scourge for the Orthodox Jewish community.”