Playing sports is one thing, my Rebbe always said that boys needed to get outside once in a while and that it helped them learn better, but watching sports is a whole new meshugas that has only infiltrated the frum…
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Reading Frum Satire is an issur d’orysa
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30 of the most important things I learned in yeshiva
Let me preface this post by saying that I probably would have learned most of the things had I not gone to yeshiva, but going to yeshiva definitely provides an education that is seldom matched elsewhere. Yeshiva graduates are definitely…
Is the Internet or TV worse for your neshama?
The Internet may be one of the first things that the Geolim can’t control, the Asifa and their constant banter about the evils that befall us on the Internet remind me of the Haskalah. Television on the other hand was…
Chinuch Roundtable: I can’t live through sefira without music
Dear Chinuch Roundtable I cannot live through sefirah without listening to music. It’s mammesh a sakonoh for me since I’m addicted. I understand that we have to give up music, but why can we listen to Acapella? and why davka…
Is Facebook or Smoking more assur?
It’s not another satirical piece by me, it’s actually a fairly lengthy discussion in one of the yeshiva world news coffee room forums and it’s a pretty hot debate. The basic premise is that smoking will cause you physical harm,…
Why is texting assur?
Whenever I hear about kosher phones, I hear about them not allowing the owner to text and I am a bit troubled by this, I am not bothered to the core because anyone who knows me – knows that I…
Frum guy confronts female co-worker for wearing pants – video
I fooled around with the text to video maker Xtranormal last night and came up with two videos, this may be a whole new way for me to reaproach ideas that may have not been funny unless they were acted…
It is assur to masturbate on shabbos
Masturbation is kind of like loshon horah, both are terrible sins and everyone is doing it pretty often. Typically when someone wants to find out if you’re frum, they ask if you keep kosher and shabbos, if you masturbate on…
Handshaking with the opposite sex for business purposes is not kosher
It has been debated amongst all sects along the spectrum of Jewish Orthodoxy for years as to whether shaking hands with the opposite sex is kosher. In past years, it has been thought that shaking hands for business purposes was…
Rabbis say its assur to end shabbos at normal time due to Halloween
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…
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…