Originally posted on Dov Bear
By Chometz Ben Yayin

No. I don’t pray to a cross, and no, I’m not an angry davener.

Let me explain.

I live on the upper west side. I have for more than ten years. I have done the usual thing regarding shul which is OZ by night and The Jewish Center Shabbat morning.

But week after week and year after year of meaningless socializing and feeling lack of meaning in my prayers. I decided to try out Kehillat Hadar. An open orthodox style minyan with mixed seating.  [click to continue…]

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As expected the Internet Asifa has been “sold out” and now all those frum scalpers are selling them online check out the ebay ad for them. Someone just sent me this hilarious ad on craigslist, I wonder if there really are box seats that allow women?

Box seats for the Internet Asifa (women allowed) – $613 (Citi Field )


Date: 2012-05-16, 12:17AM EDT
Reply to: tzv7p-3018266735@sale.craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]


As you know, this coming Sunday thousands of Jews from all walks of life will gather at Citifield to celebrate the internet. They will talk about ways to make it safer for all Yidden to use and they will be discussing various halachos, chumras and other ideas that will be revolutionary. Unfortunately, women couldn’t be invited because the halachos of internet are mostly mitzvah sh’zman grama and the Satmar Rebbe wouldn’t allow his name to be used if such a large event where Yidden were to be kabalas chizuk would be mixed. Unbeknownst to most of Klal Yosroel, the Satmar Rebbe and Matisyahu Solomon allowed women to attend as long as they were out of view. The only seats out of view are the Box Seats. If you would like your daughters and wives to be part of this amazing event, please do not hesitate to contact me.These box seats are for 6 people and I am selling them at a small discount, unfortunately I will be in Silicon Valley for a meeting and will only be attending via live feed.

  • Location: Citi Field
  • it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 3018266735

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Off the derech people are miserable

by Heshy Fried on May 15, 2012 · 52 comments

I don’t know anyone who’s happy and off the derech. If they were so happy, why would they keep having to tell us religious Jews how silly we are, couldn’t they just be happy with their decision and leave us alone. Yet day in and day out they visit this site and others and feel the need to argue relentlessly for the virtues of secularism. They tend to have no values and morals and feel the need to drag us down to their level. You left, that’s great, leave us alone. That’s all I really want to say them when they have these dumb arguments about how terrible religion is. [click to continue…]

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Y-Love came out to me at a shabbos meal a couple years ago, I wasn’t shocked at all, it finally explained his effeminate voice and some of his hand motions. I just wondered what it would do to his career, I’d noticed that many frum Jews can’t separate their politics and religion from things enough to listen to a rapper who called himself frum and gay. Well, he now considers himself ex-Chassidic, so I guess we can all go back to liking Y-Love. For a second there I thought we’d have to give up listening to him (especially his sefira album) because he was going against the Torah. Check out the piece on Out.com.

 

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Yeshiva Memories: Sleeping in shiur

by Heshy Fried on May 14, 2012 · 3 comments

I sat alert for about ten minutes and then the rebbe started pacing, at this cue I arranged my gemara, mishna brura, notebooks and a mesilas yeshurim in a way that would hide the fact that I was dozing off. I had always sat in corners to the right side of the room and in this case there was a small pillar to block me from direct rebbe view, besides he was droning on about courtyards and public domains and things I never needed to know in real life. [click to continue…]

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Dear Chinuch Roundtable:
I’m a frum gay man. I’m not sure which is better, to date non-Jews or Jews. On the one hand I have much more in common with other frum guys, on the other hand, I feel bad causing other Jewish guys to sin with me. What should I do? [click to continue…]

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21 necessary evils of the frum community

by Heshy Fried on May 12, 2012 · 53 comments

They say that government and taxes are two necessary evils whether we like it or not. The frum community also has a lot of necessary evils and I just wanted to touch upon a few of them today. I’m sure some of you may think that certain things are necessary evils, but things like shabbos toilet paper is not necessary and pre-checked vegetables are just plain evil.  [click to continue…]

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Dvar Torah Emor: Moses and the Blasphemer

by DRosenbach on May 10, 2012 · 9 comments

The Akivan view purports that the entire Torah was given to Moses on Sinai — general principles along with all of the particulars — but this appears to come into conflict with the closing segment of this week’s parsha.

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