Disclaimer: I felt this issue was important enough of a mussar lesson to come out of retirement briefly. As you surely know, most people don’t realize I’m in retirement, there are still several thousand folks actually reading the drivel I…
Tag: bloggers
And the most negative Jewish blogger of the year award goes to…
Rabbi Avi Shafran…. I know you all were expecting someone else, but just because someone is a well respected Rabbi by some, doesn’t mean they can tame their yetzer harah for negativity and sinas chinam. After reading Rabbi Shafran’s post…
Are Jewish bloggers Antisemitic? Or just Cowards?
Pop Chossid posting the following post on his blog in which he enters the business of attacking other bloggers, it’s a good business, because I shared it on my facebook wall and everyone started fighting with each other. Fink got…
Leftover Cholent: A new frum blog with some potential
I generally don’t read blogs, heck I schedule most of my blog posts, tweets and other goodies so I don’t have to spend valuable outdoors time keeping up with this wonderful online community that has been outgrowing this blog and…
The Orthoprax Rabbi: What it’s like to be an atheist rabbi of an orthodox shul
Someone sent me the link to a new blog called Orthoprax Rabbi. It is written by the supposedly atheist rabbi of a modern orthodox congregation that claims he keeps his true beliefs under wraps in order to keep his job.…
New York Jewish Tweetup: this weds 5:30 @92y – Tribeca
JewsNews.com and myself have organized a Jewish Tweetup at the 92Y in Tribeca. Bloggers are invited as well, since many of the poeple coming are both Tweeters and Bloggers, this should be a fun and great event for networking and…
Live Dov Bear interview tomorrow
Mark your calendars: Thursday October 29, 2009 3:30 PM Eastern Time – Live DovBear Interview. Eli Fink will be conducting the interview All (or many) of your burning questions about DovBear will be asked and some may even be answered…
Attention fellow bloggers – want to get more traffic?
I know a lot of you are wondering how you can get more traffic, blogging isn’t about the hits, its about the people – but if you only have 3 readers there are no people to speak of. I can…
Is it possible to be sexy and tznius?
Frum and Flipping has this very interesting post about her foray into lingerie shopping, as a frum girl. You see, no one is actually going to see her lingerie, unless she gets married. I have feeling this post may help…
Frum Satire makes a shidduch – the video proof
By the way – for some reason there is a huge debate going on in the comments section of the video on You Tube – 21 comments long already.
Jewish Bloggers writing books
I have been thinking about writing a book for a long time, something of a memoir, maybe combining my yeshiva years and day school years into a raw and up front look at my life. I have what may amount…
Shabbos in Washington Heights
When the clock struck 4:45 pm I knew I was in trouble and silently cursed my computer for being stuck in central time from Dallas. I was running an hour late and there was no way in hell that I…
Shidduch Blog Carnival
Shidduch Bloggers = Frum Emo, when I thought of it I felt brilliant, but now I am having second thoughts. Its not so smart to poke fun at a whole niche of bloggers and then link them (although I am…
Notes from the Jewish Blogger Convention yesterday
So as most of you know, one of the main purposes of my trip to Israel that was sponsored by webads Israel (which you can get paid to place a banner on your blog and write posts for) and Nefesh…
The flight to Israel
I didn’t have to wait on line, I felt ike the man, a simple dangling badge reading “frum satire” and “Blogger” on it got me past the lines filled with screaming children and happy folks wheeling the highest loaded luggage…
Frum sex therapists and frum olympians
Two inetersting posts I found while wandering through the J-Blogsphere last night. Mother in Israel has this great post and interview with an orthodox sex therapist from Israel. And my man Jameel who is one one of the only Jewish…