When the bans and chumras start affecting me they have gone too far. While reading Vos Iz Neias this morning I cam across an article on this issue and I am in pain. Because now they are starting to ban things that mean something to me. I wash my own spinach, don’t listen to Jewish [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Charedim'
Chassidim in Willaimsburg say bike lanes are not tznius!!!
September 13th, 2008 · 33 Comments
Tags: · Brooklyn · Charedim · Chumras and Bans
Jewish Music Hechsher: What exactly is Jewish music?
September 9th, 2008 · 68 Comments
For all you people with ADD: The first half of this post is serious, second half is hilarious.
So the Charedim in Israel have done it again, for those of you who have been wondering when the next crazy ban or chumra was going to happen, it happened last week. The Rabbis have decided to come [...]
Tags: Charedim · Chumras and Bans · Controversey · yeshivish
Should there be a dress code at the Kotel?
September 3rd, 2008 · 71 Comments
So I snapped the following picture at the kotel and it made a ruckus on my Facebook album of Israel pictures (I intend to make a flickr account one of these days) the picture was meant to show a dude wearing a Yechi yarmulke given out by some of the messianic chabadnicks who hang out [...]
Tags: · · BT · Charedim · Israel · Lubavitchers · Yarmulkes · halacha
How frummies utilize the brims of their black hats
August 12th, 2008 · 11 Comments
For some reason I got in a mood to write classic frum satire stuff this week.
Apparently there is a crisis within the shidduch crisis that many of us are not aware of, I was speaking to a girl who is in the parsha as the more yeshivish people like to call someone who is dating [...]
Tags: Charedim · Girls · shidduch · yeshivish
Do chassidim really do things backward?
August 5th, 2008 · 15 Comments
My faucets in my house are backwards, they are all switched from the normal sides of hot and cold and they turn the opposite way- it makes for a confusing time when washing my hands, washing the dishes and taking a shower. I was informed recently that this may be because Chassidim own the house [...]
Tags: Charedim
Defending the Charedim
August 1st, 2008 · 20 Comments
So this past week between jobs I took my old summer job of inspecting camps for the State of NY back for a week or so. It was fun because as always it provides a rare seen glimpse and up close encounter at the mysterious chassidim, that I am usually just honking at to get [...]
Tags: Charedim



