Author: Telz Angel

Helping a brother in need

So I’m driving by Spuyten Duyvil Station on my way into Manhattan and I see a guy on top of the bridge over the Hudson Parkway.  I pull over and yell out “Hey what are you doing up there?” He…

Rachel’s hot letters.

I love reading Rachel’s hot letters on the Jewish Press.  It turns me on like the fridge light after havdalah.  Take this letter from a few weeks ago, about the crisis in our communities — crisis — that means tension and yes,…

Don’t think, Don’t feel, Don’t ask

Gone are the days where the Chassidic tales were understood though the lens of Martin Buber’s classic folktales.  Most people understood these fables were Buber’s romanticisms of Eastern European folk heroes.  And somehow things evolved into a new type of story: a fusion…

Bonfire of the Frumities

Seems like every community I’ve lived in suffers the same problem every year at Lag B’omer — who really owns the holiday?  Chabad or the Community Kollel? It’s fair to say that Chabad got there first.  They’ve been doing these…

What’s under the modest swimwear?

Recently, a company in Israel advertised their modest swimwear for frum women on many Jewish community e-mail lists.  One list member asked me the obvious question, and it has bothered me since.  What is the point of  modest swimwear?  Do frum…

I predict a tsunami disaster

It’s predictable. An earthquake hits Japan, a tsunami results, and more aftershocks come. This results in the death of hundreds if not thousands of people. Truly a human tragedy. So why post on Frum Satire? Because the frum reactions are…

My frum-porn arrived in the mail

It’s a magazine with shiny pages and vibrant picture.  And it’s total frummy-porn goodness.  But there’s no skin, and hardly any pictures of people.  Confused?  It’s the Annual Shnorah Chinese Raffle Catalog.  Porn for frummies.  Beautiful images of highly desirable, but…

US News ranks top Yeshivas

In a surprise move, US News and World Report’s annual college ranking now includes a new section for Yeshivas.  Using a similar methodology for business and technical schools, the researchers collected data on acceptance rates, performance on standardized tests, opinions…

Kollel guys on the hunt for jobs

Kollel guys at the Telz Yeshiva of Lancaster, PA are facing the harsh reality that in tough economic times, sometimes you actually have to work for a living.  For many years, they were able to squeak by having their wife or their…