Yom Ha’aztmaut is one of the few times a year when you can actually judge, disparage, and stereotype your fellow Jews and be right about it. On all other days of the year, we tend to judge folks by the…
Tag: black hat
It’s now untznius to mention a kallah’s name
I’m not sure how they do it in Baltimore (the person who sent this to me informed me that the kollel has a policy against mentioning women’s names), but when I was in yeshiva and someone got engaged, they always…
There aren’t enough frummies in the Bay Area
I miss those families that have erev shabbos kugel, I find this kind of weird because I’ve never really missed frummies before, but I guess human nature is that we miss the things we don’t have. To say that San…
Frum or Not App
The frum or not app from Israel is super cool, I wish I would have thought of it first – it could have been the frum satire app that one of my programming buddies said he would create for me…
Ever wonder why there are no modern orthodox forums?
I had a short email conversation with someone the other day about what my hashkafa was, like most, including myself – I have a hard time identifying with any one group of Jews and tend to go to many shuls…
The flagship shul of the American Kiruv Industry
I was bored in shul this past Friday night, so I decided to do a statistical analysis of the people in attendance. I first counted out 120 men, then started breaking it down a bit more, I noticed very few…
Being the only colored shirt guy in a black hat shul
This is a classic Frum Satire video – I intend to get some more of these up at some point – this video describes my thoughts on Monsey before I ever thought of moving to the place.
Best of Shul Awards
I was sitting in Adath Israel in San Francisco this past shabbos afternoon in their weekday shul and it came to me that they had the best benches I have ever sat on, it then came to me that I…
Modern Orthodox are much more judgemental than black hatters
Did you know that modern orthodox Jews dislike black hat Jews more than black hat Jews dislike the modern orthodox? I was just as shocked as you when I found out the news, it was reported in a recent survey…
Is LA considered “out of town”?
My newly created friend from LA a Rabbi comedian by the name of Rabbs, is convinced that Jews in Los Angeles deserve out of town status. After a week spent in LA I didn’t need much convincing. The Jews of…
YU sumposium: Being Yeshivish in the Modern Orthodox world
Transcribed by Eli D. Clark Rabbi Schwartz: Welcome everyone. Our topic tonight is “Being Gray in the Modern Orthodox World.” Each of our panelists will talk about how it feels to discover that you are really yeshivish after growing up…
I have a dream
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for achdus in the history of our nation. Several years ago, some great Rabbis, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,…
What does Litvish mean to you?
So I was having a Facebook discussion last night with the person who wrote that post the other day about not being able to find a community to live in. She is very picky, due to some bad experiences (isn’t…
Letter to the editor: Judaism is too strict
One thing that bothers me about modern Judaism is the continuous shift to the strict and serious. When my father was a kid and when I was a kid you checked the ingredients and then ate it. People would eat…
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…
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.…
Black Hats vs. Streimels vs. Spodeks
Why I love Yeshiva World News
Yeshiva World News is a love hate relationship, I know many of you may think I hate them – but I don’t, I understand they are catering to a more charedi and less scandal intensive audience than Vos Iz Neias.…
20 types of guys that every yeshiva has
Every yeshiva is different so the following may vary but my yeshiva had a bunch of different characters- their roles stayed the same from year to year, but their names changed. I have 18 listed and I know there are…
It’s frummy week on frum satire
Well it may or not be depending on how I feel, but based on how I feel now, I am in the mood of making fun of frummies this week. So here it goes. I was thinking about ways that…
How frummies utilize the brims of their black hats
For some reason I got in a mood to write classic frum satire stuff this week. Apparently there is a crisis within the shidduch crisis that many of us are not aware of, I was speaking to a girl who…
Part of a Rabbis job should be to welcome guests
I have been a guest at many shuls around the country, the farther you get from the Tri-state area the friendlier they are, usually. Why should it be like this? Why shouldn’t every shul try and be as friendly as…