Jewish Comedy

I am approaching 1400 friends on facebook, which means I get invited to multiple events every day- some of them pretty personal ones like weddings, engagement parties and graduation events. I have always wondered what would happen if I were to show up at one of these events- since I feel that people are too […]

I recently had a young lady friend in my car who became flabbergasted that my idea of recycling plastic bottles was to refill them and stash them around my car. She proclaimed that plastic bottles were made to be used once and after that they would undoubtedly secrete secret substances into my water and kill […]

I like sushi, I cannot say I love it for I am rarely willing to plunk down 5-8 bucks or more for a few pieces of raw fish and rice. In fact it irks me when eating sushi that I have paid at least a dollar for the piece I am about to take in […]

I was reading Abandoning Edens post about her first time eating crab and lobster and it got me thinking about cheeseburgers and their use as the ultimate sin according to my yeshiva high school Rabbis.
There were a few points stressed over and over again in my high school, if they didn’t have to do […]

Obesity is creating a booming food economy, so booming that somewhere along the road around 5 years ago, juice became water. Suddenly flavored water, which to me was somewhere between drink and juice became water. Water became too plain and suddenly there were multiple kinds of spruced up waters. I was bothered by the whole […]

I went into Shavuos with a wary mind this year for certain trends in the cheesecake industry have been troubling. First off homemade cheesecake is becoming a rare commodity not to be taken lightly, like homemade challah in cities with kosher bakeries, homemade cheesecake is rare. Then when it is homemade the trend has been […]

Whenever someone would ask my father where we went to shul, he would always respond the same way- “never ask a west sider where they go to shul” implying there was no loyalty on the west side, and that choosing where you went to shul was based on many different attributes, including Rabbi, weather, distance, […]

This is my first ever Haviel Halelim so I hope it comes out all right. For all of you who are not aware- a Haviel Halelim is a Jewish Blogger Carnival in which bloggers submit their posts and I put them up with links back to them. I also looked around at several recently updated […]

One of the only reasons I remain an orthodox Jew is because of Kiddush, its almost as if every time I am in a skeptical mood, silver chaffing dishes of free and piping hot kishka laden cholent drive me back to shul and back on the derech. I just cant get over the fact that […]