Ever since the first of many successful Stuff Jewish People Like was posted on this blog I have gotten dozens of emails, facebook messages, tweets and even a few phone calls begging me to write something about what Off the Derech people like, but alas I can’t because it’s just too complex. How complex can writing about a group of people who abandoned the life of orthodoxy for a life of free schooling, all you can eat salad and soup at Olive Garden and mamish kefira? What I’m about to say may shock some of you, but in my opinion there are different madreigas within the off the derech category. [click to continue…]
After a Reditt user uploaded photos containing microscopic bugs found in New York City’s water supply, Rabbi around the country gathered around high powered microscopes and came to the shocking discovery that there are bugs everywhere, word in the shtetl has it that they have been debating what to do about breathing. [click to continue…]
Dear anti-conformist shemona esrei davener that needs to face a different direction than everyone because the shul isn’t facing east.
I get it, you want to be frum, you also wish to retain your anti-conformist nature. You want to be “that” guy, you want to be seen and known and appear frummer than everyone else in shul because you’re onto something. [click to continue…]
I’m standing outside getting some fresh air when the cop pulls up, instinctively I drop my beer bottle onto the cool grass and it hits my big toe, I mutter some curses to myself as the cop passes me. I wonder if it was necessary to drop my beer onto my toe, would the cop have charged me for having an open container in public? I honestly had no idea, but I had seen enough American Pie style movies to know that you didn’t mess with suburban cops in wealthy towns where there was nothing to do but break up loud college parties and pull over the occasional cyclist for running a stop sign. [click to continue…]
I didn’t actually shave my head, but I was driving to work last Tuesday and it was hot, really hot out – like close to 100 – apparently this summer has been cold, but to me waking up to a cloudless sky and 75 degrees every day is heaven. So when it hit the upper 90′s last week I finally realized that the mop on my head had to go. I love my long hair and I’ve had it various lengths of dirty hippie look for the last 2 years, but the heat combined with the high holidays coming up really caused me to swerve my car into a strip mall that said Express Cuts. [click to continue…]
I was sitting at a seder once with my family at a hotel, not knowing my father was how he is, this young girl at the table expressed that she was a vegetarian because she felt it was morally wrong not to be. My father basically tore her new one with a talmudic discourse why she was basically a kofer for saying that anyone who partook in the beis hamikdash was morally wrong. He went on and on about the crazy liberals and Jews who didn’t know a blatt gemera from a hole in the wall, she cried, my brother and I left the table and my father continued to yell about the farshtunkanah liberals – classic! Even Rav Kook who people cite as their source that you can be frum and a vegetarian, ate chicken on shabbos. So that begs the discussion of whether you can really be a frum vegan – vegetarians eat fish – vegans won’t even wear a sterimel and everyone knows you can’t be a frum yungerman without a streimel. [click to continue…]
When I get some time later this week, I hope to email each of the dozens of folks that donated money to my buy a car fund so far, but I just want to extend my hakaras hatov to you all to say that I noticed and I am ecstatic. I knew I wasn’t going to raise a million bucks in this economy from a bunch of cheap Jews but deep inside I hoped you folks were going to give me something so I didn’t go into the doldrums of thinking that no one cared enough to throw me $5 which some of you did – the biggest donation was $50 and that’s insanely amazing. [click to continue…]
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