Comments on: Hasid for a Day

By: Yossi

Yossi — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:23:10 +0000

I’m looking for a frum woman
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By: chassidish guy

chassidish guy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:26:22 +0000

Still the boy and his Lubavitch style peyos don’t really match his father

By: E. Fink

E. Fink — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:21:19 +0000

I wrote all about things they got right, the things they got wrong and the huge plot hole on my blog: The Good Wife: Unorthodox

By: Chevramaidel

Chevramaidel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:38:17 +0000

I saw that one- didn’t the whole plot revolve around a woman falling in front of a Jewish store where she was shopping ON SHABBOS? Seemed like a huge plothole to me. Not to mention the anomalous hats, and the Chassidish husband with long payos and a big tchup. Will they ever get it right? And it seemed improbable that a Chassidishe woman would use the phone on Shabbos under those circumstances- if she was hiding the calls from her husband, it was her cell phone- she could have gone out of the house during the week to call. There should be an intensive course for directors, actors, and casting directors in the differences between Orthodox communities, teaching them about all the different styles of dress, codes of behavior, and nuances of speech.

By: Chaya

Chaya — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:22:56 +0000

My boyfriend caught it actually. He’s like “I SOLVED THE MYSTERY’” as soon as she said she went to the store for wheat free products. I was like “naaah, I think it’s just bad writing, there’s gotta be a cooler twist”

By: FrumGer

FrumGer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:27:12 +0000

Heshy-

I haven’t seen holy land, when something has an outline picture of a stripper straddling a pole on the cover art, i avoid it… Mendy had some bad pervy stuff in it, which is why i recomended all should avoid it but i had no idea until i watched it.

But Mendy was terribly stupid, it was made literally by OTD yeshivish guy which is why it did have some believability. the Tefilin scene what dumb dumb dumb… this otd leigns for like 60 seconds with out a shirt on for all to see his million tatts and piercings. pretty much that whole movie was the dumbest thing ever, the shabbos scene with an OTD of every major sect of chasidish all around a table smoking pot and drinking talking about how much they hate chasidus…. that movie epitomized the otd extreme. cant have tatts so i am going to get every thing tatted and peirced, cant eat treif so i am going to eat a double cheesburger, cant be with goyim, so the kid ends up with a shiksa shvartza, the ultimo goy…. everything is ultimo, and absurd, and i hated it because it made me throw up in my mouth….

By: Matthue Roth

Matthue Roth — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:33:02 +0000

Actually, I lived in Chicago for a year, and my payos come past my shoulders. (Not to brag, but there you go — not Lubavitch style at all.)

I can’t make any excuses for the woman or the hat, except to say that that’s the costume department’s fault, not the woman’s (who wasn’t Hasidish, or even necessarily Jewish, although she was very respectful & inquisitive).

By: Heshy Fried

Heshy Fried — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:15:43 +0000

Mendy had some good parts and they did a very good job wit it in some ways – though the tefillin scene was a bit much

Have you seen the Holy Land? That’s a good movie

By: chassidish guy

chassidish guy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:43:02 +0000

The picture at the top is all wrong, the hat the woman is wearing is nothing like the styles of hat chassidsh women wear (I know my wife wears one), she is wearing black not beige stockings which don’t go with a hat and her hairstyle is different to the shaitel styles of such ladies. At this point I assume their purporting to be satmar or belz or something so why does the boy have lubavitch style short payos and small kappel (he is actually the most realistic looking of them all). I don’t actually think there any chassidish women with hats or men with long curly payos in Chicago in any case. All in all though it is relatively good compared to some of the other stuff out there.