They manage the home, raise the children and provide for their families, but they’re discriminated against and shut out of Haredi political power. A group of women is fighting for change, and they aren’t scared of getting ostracized Hagai Amit | Feb.…
by Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel in San Francisco Reprinted from Rabbi Strulowitz’s Blog on www.adathisraelsf.org What is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach? He is a lightning rod, an author, a speaker, a frequent talk show guest, a reality TV star,…
Guest post by Dale Rosenbach While Moses was preparing to give up leadership, the Israelites were preparing to enter the Promised Land and participate in a “new commitment” (as ArtScroll puts it) to the Torah at Mount Eival. Moses commands…
Separation of the sexes isn’t just for weddings and sidewalks anymore. The latest call for separation of the sexes comes from the playground as Ultra Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, NY have become frightened at the thought that their children are playing…
Whenever people begin to talk about hair covering post marriage, the conversation always ends up in chassidish territory and someone is always wondering why they shave their heads if they are covering them anyway. Interesting enough, no one ever wonders…
I have written about Chassidim using Christmas decorations in their sukkahs, so it was only time until a Chassidic lady happened across one of those guys selling kitschy bandannas in Time Square that featured Playboy bunnies on it. hat tip…
This post was going originally going to be Stuff Charedim Like. Miss Frum n’ Flippin convinced me that Charedim and Chassidim are two very different animals – I knew this and decided to change the article to plain old Chassidim.…
The Center for Haredi Phobia opened in Israelthe other day, the center will offer unique programs to change the minds of those who fear and hatred the Haredim in Israel. It is has been thought for sometime that people in…
If you take a tour around the Jewish Blogging world you will find countless blogs written by the chassidic fringe about their experience of being stuck in a Charedi world while they are non-believers. There are some great sites out…
It’s been a long time since the Rabbis banned a food product, it seems they have been quite busy this year with scandals that they forgot to ban anything. The last couple of years have been filled with so many…
Last week there was some news about a company in Israel marketing personal mechitzas for Charedim traveling on planes that don’t want to watch movies or wrestle with some immodestly dressed seat mate for the arm rest and I think…
First there was kosher style, then there was Charedi style. Every time there is a scandal involving an orthodox Jew committing some crime everyone gets up in everyone’s grill about these people not really being orthodox and just being fakers.…
Until the recent press release from Rabbi Yehuda Levin announcing that the gays were the cause of the Haiti Earthquake, no one had heard of him or his organization the Rabbinical Alliance of America. In response to RAA and Agudath…
Rabbi Yehuda Levin made this video to get attention and it’s working, it is also a huge Chillul Hashem. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is not the first to claim that homosexuality has lead God to destroy random innocent people. Some of…
This interview which appeared in the Five Towns Jewish Times illustrates why the Rabbis have been silent, which is mostly because there is sex and women involves. It seems to me that the Rabbis are silent whenever the scandal involved…
The previous works of Rabbi Getzel Akum have established him as a Halachic expositor of the first order. His Mattir Issurim on the Halachos of commerce and Lo BaShamayim Hi on the Halachos of air travel remain modern classics of…
By Honestly Frum The torah warns us that there are 3 things that are so reprehensible that the only way we can refer to them is as a Toeiva, an abomination. The first and the one that gets referred to…
A man is in critical condition today after he was beaten by a modesty squad in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Meah Shearim. Witnesses say the man was looking across the street at a crowd of women, when the attackers jumped…
“The enormous Chillul Hashem reported in Sunday’s New York Post is almost without precedent in thousands of years of Jewish history.” As quoted by Vos Iz Neias about Rabbi Leib Tropper sex tape scandal. It seems to me and you…
For all of you who don’t keep up on your daily frum community gossip columns Rabbi Leib Tropper is involved in the latest scandal to hit the frum world. Unlike the countless other scandals involving so called “frum” people, this…
A few weeks ago, Matthue Roth got a gig on the set of the TV show “The Good Wife” as an extra. 1. I’ve protested so frequently about the portrayal of Hasidic Jews in movies and TV — not to…
For some time it has been known that anyone caught wearing a colored shirt in religious communities around the world was likely to be ostracized by the community. Shidduchim, schooling, seminary, even real estate value can all be affected by…
There was an article posted on VIN from the Jewish Star (which seems to be one of the better Jewish weeklies in the New York area) yesterday that was calling for the boycott of folks who support the Niturei Karta…
