Advice

Question: I’ve been grappling with the decision of letting you respond publicly to this question for many months. On the one hand, I’m scared my son will read this question...

By Malkie Hirsch You know those people you can go months without speaking to but when you do, it’s like no time has passed? There are never hard feelings on...

Question: Our son is in third grade and is getting bullied. He’s being mercilessly picked on during the bus ride to and from yeshiva, and possibly in yeshiva also. We...

Question I am a bachur in my early twenties. I have never been married; yet, for reasons I don’t know, shadchanim have been asking me to go out with divorced...

  Dear Esther, I am a 44-year-old male. I would say I grew up in a functional home with normal, average parents who did their best to raise their three children....

  In the world of shidduchim, I think that singles are looking out for themselves. They don’t tend to think of their friends and who they can set them up...

By Malkie Hirsch Lately I’ve been noticing how many of our interactions involve posing and answering questions. Some are conversational, like “How’s your day?” Others are more practical: “Do the kids have...

  Dear Esther, My older sister Anita is in her forties and never got married. Honestly, I’m not so sure she ever will or if she even wants to marry. Regardless,...

Question I read your column, and most of the letters you get are about young people who are in shidduchim. They ask you for advice, which you give them, and...

Question: With all the antisemitic incidents occurring all around us, our children (ages 5, 8, and 12) are becoming apprehensive. My husband and I have noticed some odd changes in...