Rosh Hashana is coming, and I wanted to talk a little about shoes. OK…a lot about shoes.
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(Belated) Devar Torah Parshas Ki Savo
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…
Frum man contemplates suicide over finances
Originally Published on Matzav “Frum Man Jumps to His Death Over Finances.” That headline isn’t a real one – yet. But it may be soon. I am at the verge of either losing my mind or giving up my life…
Rabbi Leib Tropper – finally a frum scandal involving sex
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…
Why do people care how he died?
We all learned about the death of our friend Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal last week, what I can’t understand is why I keep getting emails and facebook messages asking me how he died?
On the passing of my friend Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal
I received an email a few months back from this fan of mine who wanted to shoot some videos with me, we chatted on the phone for some time shooting the shit and realized we had met each other at…
Making a case for Yoetzet Halacha
While spending shabbos in Washington Heights several weeks ago, the residents were in the process of trying to find a new Rabbi for the shul. On Friday night the shul organized an Oneg Shabbat question and answer session with the…
Should sexual abuse in the frum community be publicized?
There is nothing funny about a 9 year old girl getting molested by her supposedly ultra orthodox father, but its all over the news and quite controversial, and of course I like to have my finger on the pulse of…
Mohel gets lambasted on You Tube
I posted a simple video of the local Mohel telling a funny story and the anti-bris milah people chimed in. Its kind of expected that with every video I post to my you tube page, there will be several comments…
Coming out of the closet in the frum community
An old friend of mine recently came out of the closet to me (he gave me permission to write about him without revealing who he is) and as anyone would be, I was completely shocked, I was also super pumped…