Most Orthodox Jews take kosher food for granted, typically an area with hundreds of thousands of Jews will have at least a few kosher restaurants to choose from. Somehow, God passed over the Bay Area when he preordained that we…
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The ladies almost dropped the Torah this Shabbos
I sat in shul bored out of my mind. I only learned later that I had missed Parshas Noach. It’s a great parshah to think about sex posts in shul, to think about how I could push people’s buttons by…
Why doesn’t the frum community care about the environment?
I was in Berkeley for shabbos and the scholar in residence was this Rabbi who tries to spread the “Jews should save the environment” gospel, which I’m a bit iffy on. I wondered what the point of having a Jewish…
Bay Area Orthodox Jews are ahead of their time
One of the first things I was told when I moved to the Bay Area was that the Jewish community was way ahead of its time. The first interesting thing I noticed was that the Berkley Chabad and the left…
My first shabbos in Berkeley
The aron was open and three women were standing around it. They had just placed the torah back after the drasha; if I would have walked into shul at that moment I would have wondered if I was in the…