So the Synagogue got really fed up with its Rabbi. The Executive Committee met and not-too-reluctantly, concluded that they’d have to let him go. Trouble was – who’d want to take him – especially if it got out that he’d…
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,…
I love America. G-d bless America. It’s the only country I know that does not have a chief rabbi, thanks to a very divided Jewish community, and a government that is constitutionally barred from appointing religious leaders. Fortunately, elements of…
Rabbi Sara Hurwitz is the first woman to be ordained as an orthodox Rabbi, this was done by Rabbi Avi Weiss in Riverdale – which most of the frum people I know view as a non-orthodox Rabbi. I don’t even…
In a bid to produce a sequel to the Exorcist, noted kabbalists gathered in Israel this week to see if they could get a dybbuk out of a man, who had supposedly been possessed while vacationing in South America. The…
For the first time in many years, both modern orthodox and Haredi Rabbis have joined forces on a ban, they have banned ending shabbos at its normal time due to the dangers of Halloween. Many of the Rabbis we spoke…
The last real shabbos nachamu I spent roaming between Woodbourne and Kiamesha Lanes was years ago, I must have been about 22 or 23, and the kids at risk yeshiva rebel revolution was at its tail end. Not that there…
I don’t typically like speeches, hate may be a strong word, but I do space out or read something else. Tonight at the end of Maariv I picked up the Rav Shlomo Freifeld biography and couldn’t put it down, I…
On Love and Marriage By Schwartzie I remember the day in ninth grade when my rebbe was faced with the awkward task of explaining the concept of anal sex. “Ah, boys,” he told us, “lets say you have some thieves,…
So your Rabbi was arrested for stealing millions of dollars or selling kidneys on Ebay, shul may not bnever be the same without his sermons preaching about the horrors of money and how the yetzer harah made him do it,…
Every week the Jewish newspaper Yated has a Rebbe centerfolds section, with pictures of Rebbes doing everything from cutting a birthday cake, drinking mayim chayim seltzer and walking to their cars after a wedding – which was always of the…
Is it just me who sees the irony in this news title? I guess the only thing funnier than bans, is when someone tries to reconcile the ban. Can you imagine someone now saying that Indian Hair sheitles are kosher?
I never liked gemara much, but its possible that I wasn’t learning the right gemara. For instance I never learned about the naked guy on the roof who falls into the naked girl and they wonder whether or not she…
I hate when I ask a rabbi something and instead of saying the don’t know, or telling you they need to look it up they say “its not recommended” I hate this answer because it just leaves you hanging without…
For those of you with ADD I warn you that this post is over 5 pages long- but I love it because this type of writing is my favorite to do- enjoy! To describe the Dallas frum community would simply…
I have been a guest at many shuls around the country, the farther you get from the Tri-state area the friendlier they are, usually. Why should it be like this? Why shouldn’t every shul try and be as friendly as…
