I found it fitting to come out of hibernation on the 8th anniversary of Frum Satire to explain where I’ve been exactly. I know that it’s a blogging and social media community minhag to announce vacations and any time someone…
Tag: Blogging
Are you shocked by all the scandal in the frum community?
I’ve come to realize that most of the shocking commentary that I read about goings on in the frum community doesn’t really effect most people on a day to day basis. Unfortunately or not this includes me as well, I…
Reading Frum Satire is an issur d’orysa
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Heshy Fried admits that his blog Frum Satire mostly fake
In the past few years, the Frum Satire Blog has exploded in readership (over 1 million unique readers in 2013 alone), but many of those readers stumble upon the page only to scratch their heads in disbelief and forward posts…
I appologize for not being as hateful as I used to be
I’ll be the first to admit that California and all of the great things that happened to me once I moved here has changed me and my perspective. The change didn’t happen immediately, I first had to shrug off years…
I love when people take me seriously
I used to tag my posts as humor or satire, I stopped doing it in the name of satire, my life has been exponentially better since then. You see, I don’t really write for anyone but my self and a…
How bad is your attention span?
I can track attention spans based on my experience in blogging alone, average attention spans have gone down in the 7 years or so that I’ve been blogging and I see them shrinking daily. I remember when it hit me…
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…
It’s time for me to blog about more positive things and make a kiddush Hashem
I feel the need to respond to two hate mail messages I received over Facebook last week. Some people only have one single theme – yours seems to be mockery and scorn of your own family – Jews. Particularly &…
An apology to the Off The Derech community
Apologizing is always hard, because you’re admitting you did something wrong and since much of the time people are insincere when they apologize you may just be furthering your douchieness along. For all of you who don’t know, I wrote…
Is anonymous blogging a bad thing?
I just glanced at a few blogs the other day and noticed that Cross Currents’ Yaakov Menkin has started a chain of blog posts about anonymity it’s pluses and negatives. All the bigger Jewish bloggers have weighed in so I…
You’ve changed and I don’t like it
Ever since I started writing this blog people have been telling me, usually in a negative tone, that I’ve changed. I remember the first time I ever got a comment that said “you’ve really changed your writing, go back to…
Apparently I was supposed to announce my temporary vacation
In the blog world people need constant content and if they don’t get that content they typically don’t visit your site. Of course, I was surprised last month when my pay per click advertising was at it’s regular rate and…
How much should one hide when it comes to shidduch dating?
About twice a week I get an email from someone asking me to remove a comment from an old post, a picture I may have posted, a video or anything else they have deemed to hurt their shidduch resume. I…
Nu, why haven’t you been blogging much lately?
The last few weeks have been very hectic with work, the week before last was 55 hours and last week was close to 75 hours – followed by some fun times with the wife in Yosmite, Mammoth and LA. Next…
The anatomy of removing a post from Frum Satire
Every once in a while I remove a post, this happens about once a month. Certain posts I know I will remove, it’s like I write them just to test the waters, push the boundaries and retreat just to stir…
Interesting links you may have missed
Every once in a while I like to throw down a post of links to things I found interesting, but for whatever reason couldn’t make an entire blog post devoted to them. The most interesting OU trademark case involving a…
Dude where the heck were you?
Usually when I abandon the blog for a week I announce it, but this time it just sorta happened. I was working my butt off up until the Wednesday before Pesach and I literally hopped out of work, dumped my…
An argument against shomer negiah?
January’s been a slow work month for me so I’ve been wandering around the J-blogesphere a little at night. I came across Masculine Jew the other night, which appears to be a blog written by an anonymous sephardic guy who’s…
Too busy to write
“Did you take any pictures” my friend Yosef asked excitedly as I spoke to him about one of the most amazing rides I had ever done on a mountain bike. “Of course not, I didn’t want to stop and ruin…
Next week is Chesed week on Frum Satire
Every once in a while I get a worthy request from someone who wants me to write about their project, organization or event. In lieu of receiving a lot of these requests recently, I decided out of the pure goodness…
Today is the 5 year anniversary of Frum Satire
To be honest with you I’m not s stickler for anniversaries, I was told to always remember my wedding anniversary whenever I decide to take that plunge, but for now I remember one of the most important days of my…
Hey Hesh why haven’t you been blogging much lately?
Last month was a stellar blogging month in both traffic and content for me, I wrote some great stuff and was rewarded with the knowledge that 75,000 folks visited my site last month, but I knew this month would be…
40 year old frum virgin: How not having sex ruined my life!
I didn’t know what blogs were when I stumbled upon Nice Jewish Girl back in 2005, it was super interesting to read about a frum girl struggling with her natural sex drive and the halachic requirements of shomer negiah. She…
Are bloggers good for the orthodox Jewish community?
I was wondering for sometime what cause Matzav.com would take on in order to compete with Yeshiva World News and Vos Iz Neias. First they tried to go the frum route, they tried to debate whether or not to post…