There are many yeshivish things, potato chips, cars and yarmulkes can all be yeshivish, but movies are never really thought of as yeshivish. Fact is that any yeshivish school worth its weight in shidduchim will throw you out and force…
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The high cost of yeshiva tuition sucks…
… for you. I don’t have this problem, for multiple reasons. I have no legitimate children and unless you people start showing up to my shows or getting me advertisers I’m sending my kids to public school.
Shabbos davening at Shar Yashuv
I searched frantically for something to read during laining, I went to the library on the side of the shul and all I could find were two stone chumashim. There were no English mussar texts, no stories about people gaining…
Yeshiva ad journals suck, why can’t they just have yearbooks?
What the heck is the deal with yeshiva dinner ad journals, is it just me or can we all agree that they are one of the stupidest/suckiest things ever!!! For all of you who don’t know what an ad journal…
Anti-Chabad comedy video
Don’t worry folks I didn’t enter the world of the snags, I just make fun of the whole chabad vs. misnagdim affair in this video filmed in Dallas. The title is just get people curious!
How to tell you have been in Kollel too long
We can probably argue about the pros and cons of the kollel system all day, I personally don’t mind the kollel system itself – its the people running the shidduchim system that says workers are bums but the working class…
Separation of the sexes does not cause the Shidduch crisis
I don’t actually know what is causing the shidduch crisis, but it definitely isn’t the separation of the sexes. I am constantly hearing from older folks with kids who are in the parsha complaining about the fact that all the…
Hilarious Yeshiva Job Wanted ad blooper
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The differences between modern orthodox and yeshivish seders
For the past two years I have attended modern orthodox sederim, but before that for several years I attended mostly yeshivish black hat sederim – and in doing so I have witnessed some very keen differences in the way these…
Saw You At Sinai adds categories to combat singles identity crisis
I myself have no idea where I fall into, I have no true hashkafa and I am a completely mixed up Jew. On the one hand I do my requisite 3 times a day davening, haven’t missed a day of…
A Yeshiva Bochurs Wardrobe
I welcome guest posts of all kinds – please send me guest posts, or ideas for posts to [email protected] A Yeshiva Bochur’s Wardrobe – by Off the Derech The average yeshiva bochur wears black and white most of the time.…
The yeshiva for students in progressive stages of erection
That line was written in the fund raising brochure of a yeshiva in Israel that is building a new building. No one can find out exactly which yeshiva it is, but its circulating the internet and is damned funny. Can…
What does Yeshivish mean to you?
What is yeshivish? I am consistently wondering what on earth yeshivish means. Does it mean you attend yeshiva, if so one who went to Ramaz which has a prom may even be considered yeshivish. What about those who learn full…
My first shabbos in Far Rockaway with my new family
I tried to have an open mind, I really did, Far Rockaway cant be that bad can it? I mean aesthetically its reminiscent of my college which was probably designed by the same people that designed prisons in Siberia, but…
What exactly are women doing behind the mechitza?
I was thinking just the other day about women in shul, well I am always thinking about women in shul, but this was different. First of all I wasn’t even in shul, I was driving somewhere in Oklahoma, and second…
Ridiculous halachic questions
I was sitting at a bar tonight drinking an ice cold glass of New Castle beer talking with a buddy about how people in the frum world give more respect for externals then internals (dress – not organs you idiots)…
Things that Modern orthodox people never say
I was just thinking last night that you would never hear a modern orthodox person say that his daughter was redd a shidduch or that his kids are in the parshah and that me thinking. I should compile a list…
Chabad vs. Misnagdim comedy video
You must understand that this was done in good fun, I am a Lubavitcher and Snag rolled into one. It was fun and like always the groups I made of enjoyed it.
Real Yeshivas have Chavrusa Tumults and Coffee Rooms
As much as you people think I know what I am talking about when it comes to the black hat yeshivish world I haven’t a clue, in fact even though I went to a chofetz Chaim yeshiva it really wasn’t…
30 types of people every out of town community has
I didn’t write down all of them but I was thinking about how every out of town community has a Jewish car mechanic and an Israeli handyman, so I decided to compile a list of people that out of town…
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…
The Yeshiva Psychiatrist
Received via email- The Yeshiva Psychiatrist: This is not (yet) a ubiquitous position in all Yeshivas, but many currently have this type of bachur amongst their student body. While he may be sensitive and a good listener, he is not…
Metrosexual Fashions come to the Yeshia World
The newest “hock” in the yeshivishe velt is funky glasses frames. I have been seeing some ridiculous styles of glasses lately, there is this one dude in the chofetz chaim yeshiva of Dallas that wears bright green glasses frames, he…
Non-traditional ways for yeshivas to raise money
With the recession and tuition crisis, yeshivas are running out of ways to make money. Chinese auctions are old and looked at as too fancy in some circles. Yeshiva dinners are overpriced, and events like garage and bake sales are…
My first shabbos in Dallas
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…