This is an old rant I wrote a long while back that still rings true today You may think your city is the worst, everyone always does, but let me tell you something from my personal experience, every city is…
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shul bathroom tissue sucks
What the heck is the deal with shul bathroom tissue? Note my usage of term bathroom tissue, with regards to shul toilet paper in rusting dispensers it is one of the only times where one may use the ever so…
Why I think the Charedim banned the Fried/Shweky Concert!!!
Why did the charedim come up with the most recent bans of Strawberries and Gay Yeshiva Guy concerts? Was it something more then bugs and mingling? Is there a deeper meaning to all the so called nonsensical bans that reap…
Nothing like some crazy Charedi Chumras to get your blood boiling
Reemember my big list of crazy bans and chumras– well here you have it boys and girls- the charedim in Israel are banning frummy concerts. (IsraelNN.com) Hassidic music stars Avraham Fried and Yaakov Shwekey are to perform in Jerusalem before…
Shabbos Nachamu Singles Shabbaton: Thoughts and Inquiries
I could not hear the Rabbi from my seat at all, in fact I couldn’t even see him considering the fact that the lights were in romantic setting mode, they were turned way down and combined with the drone of…
Are your uf-ruf candy throwing skills up to par?
Have you ever seen two guys get into a fight only to be pulled off one another by their supportive friends? Each guy goes back to his group and gives you a BS play by play of how he would…
Do you have S.A.D.D. (shull attention deficit disorder)?
Do you have SADD (shull attention deficit disorder)? You have read the shull announcement sheet 5 times, but still guard it against any folks who seek to borrow it; You hoard those torah email sheets from the OU and random…
So they make a lecture coed and call it a singles event
I have been noticing something interesting lately, there are many ads in various places for these singles events that are speeches usually about musar. In normal cases these speeches would probably be given to single sex crowds, so I guess…
Yideoz is this the Jew Tube we have been waiting for
So if your like me, you hate searching for something with the words frum in it on Youtube because for some reason everyone under the age of 16 or folks of African American descent have hijacked the word frum and…
Have you ever watched non-Jew order something in a kosher pizza store
I Cannot Count the number of times that I have witnessed a non Jew come into a kosher pizza store and try and order something that was not available. It always starts the same way, two guys, they are always…
Funny shabbos missed connection ad from craigslist
I guess some folks are just scared to say good shabbos eh… I figured I would post this short but funny ad from craigslist as a follow up to the “how do you say good shabbos” post new york craigslist…
Shidduch Woes: This date insulted me multiple times
So a few weeks ago I get a call about a girl from a guy I rarely talk to, says she’s perfect and to tell the truth she sounded like one of the more interesting ones in a long time.…
Mehadrin Buses come to Germany
So you though Charedim were the only ones who kick untznius women off of their buses. Check this out
Why are yarmulkes made out of their respective materials?
Many great things that we use today were not created for their specific purposes, sometimes these items were made by mistake kind of like the Polio Vaccine, while some of these were just used in different ways then we know…
I have succumbed to the 8 things you didn’t know about me tag
I am sure every single blogger has been tagged and in fact I was tagged 2 weeks ago by Dreams of Who and Esser Aguroth to write this post, I was lazy and didnt feel like it- i know not…
Whats stopping you from keeping cholov yisroel?
I decided that the only thing stopping me from keeping cholov yisroel is Chubby Hubby, Half Baked, Mint Chocolate Cookie, Chunky Monkey, The Bar, New York Super Fudge Chunk, and Strawberry Cheesecake. Without a pint of Ben and Jerry’s at…
What do you think about during shmona esray?
Mel asked me to write a post on this and I thought it was a great question. What do you think about during shmona esray? I would have to say that every day is different, I think that shmona esray…
Commentary on my second singles shabbaton
I had a great seat with a good view of the entire shull as well as a peripheral “trying not to be too obvious I am staring at you” view, to the other side of the rather low mechitza. Actually…
Do people really suffer during the “three weeks”?
I have been wondering this lately because I in fact suffer immensely during the three weeks. The three weeks are the single most amazing time of the year for concerts and I like many of my fellow music junkies cringe…
The ultimate guide to saying “Good Shabbos”
Everyone has a different way of saying or not saying good shabbos. The mumbling men: I think the most common type of good shabbos is the mumble, this is when the person passing you feels obligated to say good shabbos…
If people are born gay at what age should we tell them?
So I was reading through last weeks Village Voice which surprisingly had a special section devoted to Gay issues- though I was shocked at such a paper for showing this I read on. I personally would be considered a Democrat-…
The Catskills: a summer long sociological study of frummies
Note: the links featured in this post are all to older posts that directly correspond to the terms used. Directly in front of me large Huts ketchup cans were stacked neatly on top of each other, their metal tops glinted…
Two hilarious things that happened today
First of all I was checking the search terms of the week- which by the way are viewable on the top of this page and updated every week, and noticed by far one of the funniest terms yet “kosher edible…
Extreme Sports Jews
Jacob Da Jew has tagged me to talk about my favorite extreme sport, although knowing the frum community is not full of fellow extreme sport enthusiasts he lets anyone who gets tagged in this situation to talk about any sport…
Judging women based on their style of hair covering
Women in the frum community are judged by many things, how well they can make a kugel, how many children they can have while they are still teenagers, how fast they can roll one of those huge strollers- to shull…