Dear Hashem, It’s me, Alex…Dafna…whichever, but you already knew that. You don’t need my name when you already know my neshama [soul] on the deepest of levels. You know who I am without explanation. You know my every struggle before…
I want to start this blog post off with my signature, “I’m so exhausted”… because it’s true. As I’m writing this I’m basically half asleep and half devouring my coffee. It’s truly a complex juxtaposition. That all being said, enough…
Life is interesting. The way we plan things, and the way things turn out are never quite the same. It goes along with the age old saying that also happens to be the motto of my life: “Der mentsh tracht…
Last week on my Instastories I asked about the different topics people would be interested in hearing. One of the topics brought up was that of being single in the frum (Orthodox) world. Shout out to my best friend who…
Wait, woah, hold up: We’re returning to the “Frum” portion of Frum and Fashionable! This is very exciting, if I do say so myself. While I try and incorporate Judaism, or Yiddishkeit, into every part of my blog, sometimes it…
If you followed along on Instagram you saw that I just spent the past nine days in New York, more specifically six days in Crown Heights and three in Manhattan. It was a great trip and it’s taken me a…