In my life, the average wedding within my extended circle of family and friends appears to take place every six months. The age-old gripe about Orthodox weddings all being the same, with the same food, music, circle dancing, may be…
Category: weddings
Dancing to the yichud room – modern orthodox style
I’m goofy dude – that’s all that can explain this video…I noticed that although the wedding revelers were distinctly modern orthodox with elbows showing and men and women dancing and singing together – they used yeshivish pronunciations of the chosson…
Charedi girls paid not to wear makeup at their wedding
Jerusalem – The Darchei Rachel seminary for girls in Jerusalem imposed a new regulation recently: Each girl agreeing not to put on makeup for her wedding will receive a scholarship worth NIS 1,000 (about $265).
Frum weddings suck and are a ripoff
I personally love weddings, the food, the girls, the shtick, the dancing, the bloopers, but that’s mostly because I only attend weddings once every couple of months, my good friends are mostly lifelong bachelors – so only once in a…
Only simchas pictures: The Lean!
I love awkward frummie engagement pictures, they really do rock. I as well as many of you call it “the lean” which is when the couple leans awkwardly to a center pont but is rarely close enough to denote the…
Does God ever really hook you up?
This past Sunday I drove straight from Toronto to New York, Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t do something like this, its not that it’s a long drive, its more that I don’t drive straight and opt for back roads and…
Frum Satire makes a shidduch
I went to a L’Chaim (engagement party) in Crown Heights last night that was a first for me, not because I went in Drag but this because the two people who got engaged met due to some comments on the…
The Wedding Post
I will be backpacking in the Adirondacks the next 2 days, so go into my archives and read some of my oldies or check out my best of section, and I will be back with you on Tuesday sometime. I…
Smorgasbord comedy tour
I went to a pimp wedding last night at the Sands in Atlantic Beach, it was well worth the $4 it cost to go over the bridge from Far Rockaway. Either way, I was not fully prepared for the smorgasbord,…
Non-observant Jews demand more rights at orthodox weddings
The NAAJP (national association for the advancement of Jewish People) announced a lawsuit against several orthodox wedding halls around the New York area today, citing that the segregation of secular relatives and guests at ultra orthodox weddings at what is…
Am I the only one wondering what’s going on in the yichud room?
I wonder what is going on the yichud room? This is what I am thinking after the glass is smashed and we are finally ushered out of the chupa, my least favorite part of the wedding mostly because the women…
Would you get engaged without meeting your in laws?
The differences between modern orthodox and frummie weddings
With the recent push to the right, modern orthodoxy is beginning to look like black hat Judaism, luckily its not too crazy yet and you still have distinctly modern orthodox weddings and yeshivish or frummie weddings. Even though many black…
Meshulachim have started using portable credit card machines
Years ago I pondered if homeless people or meshulachim would ever have the bright idea to whip out a portable credit card machine. If you think about it, its quite smart, no excuses, “I don’t have any money” just doesn’t…
Guide to frum wedding dances
Once you have attended an orthodox Jewish wedding no one would argue with the statement that frum Jews cant dance, although we think we can and this can be witnessed at any frum wedding. Weddings are a time for us…
My Fathers Wedding
What do you think of Polygamy?
I have never actually thought of polygamy before, besides for the few times I have heard that some sephardic folks still take more then one wife and the several times I have found myself staring at large multi wived families…
The unifying power of Jewish Geography
I sat at the nicely decorated table and waited for the newly married couple to come out, seated around the circular table were a random assortment of complete strangers tapping each other on the shoulder every time they wanted someone…
Good Luck you will need it
Its a boy! – good luck We are engaged – good luck My son just got bar mitzvahed – good luck I’m going to a wedding today – good luck It’s our 50th anniversary – good luck I can just…