GREAT READS → LIFETAKES Issue 1098 · February 4, 2026

If You Give Your Shadchan a Résumé 

You emerge from your room, a glowing kallah meidel, poised and ready for a photoshoot

If You Give Your Shadchan a Résumé 

You’ll run out to Junee and buy a beautiful, casually glamorous dress you’ll probably never touch again until you need an updated shidduch picture. At home, you put it on and prepare to do your makeup.

When you open your makeup bag, you’ll notice that you’re out of your special Shabbos lipstick. So you grab your purse and run to CVS for a new tube of lipstick — in your brand-new outfit.