There were dozens of great pictures from the rallies protesting the IDF draft, here are a few of them. If we teach our kinder the way of Hashem, maybe they can make a kiddush hashem in prison and make tatty…
Tag: charedi
10 best tznius posters and letters
I’m not exactly sure when certian people in the frum community decided to make tznius into the cause of all the calamities that befall the Jewish people, but it seems that the two major causes of evil in this world…
Finally a Charedi Rabbi we can all respect
It’s rough out there in Charedi land, too many Rabbonom get mixed up in affairs they shouldn’t be involved in and end up being caught up in the hypocrisy that leads to so many crisis of faith. I’ve been getting…
There’s no such thing as a Haredi Feminist
There was an article on Haaretz about a supposedly Haredi (Charedi) feminist who is trying to make it so women can be elected to office in Charedi parties. Immediately, I realized that this was just a sensationalist news story from…
How badly did you treat your secular teachers in yeshiva?
The secular teachers in yeshiva get the short end of the stick, many schools, including mine weren’t too great in their care for the secular studies department. Sure, we were supposed to graduate with a regular regents diploma, with a…
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz needs to stop bashing Charedim
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz is a one man show, he only cares about pushing his own agenda while trampling on our gedolei yisroel and talmidei chachumim. Have you noticed that the only one’s sharing his tweets, blog posts, and rallying cries,…
Dear Heshy: Why do you hate Charedim so much?
Dear Heshy, As a long time reader, I think I know you pretty well and I’ve been wondering why you hate Charedim so much. It seems that almost every post on this blog is aimed at tearing down the Torah…
Modesty Hotline: Here come the honor killings
Television was easy to deal with, you didn’t need it for work, you could hardly justify it as an educational tool, and there were plenty of folks like me who had bumper stickers that said “kill your television”. The internet…
The baddest ass Charedi ever
Charedi Snowman in Jerusalem
Why you should care about the Charedim
It used to be that whenever I made fun of the Charedim (the one’s in Israel who start riots when the parking lot is open on shabbos or that want the women to sit in back of the bus) I…
Charedi technology to fight the war on pritzus
Now that we have blurry glasses, kosher phones and internet chavrusas to aid in the war on pritzus I was wondering what other technological innovations the Charedi world might come up with to stay one step ahead of those women…
Charedim market Blurry Glasses to aid in the war against Pritzus
If this was a few years ago I would have taken it as a joke, but after some Charedim spit on little girls going to school in Beit Shemesh and began calling women who sat on the front of buses…
Is this Antisemitic or just the facts we don’t want to hear?
This is a video about the growing problem of Charedi extremism in Israel, it’s an acknowledged problem by most orthodox Jews, but have you ever wondered what it looks like to the outside world? The Jewish reaction to this video…
Rabbis in Israel force restaurant without mechitzas to close
Charedi Rabbis in Israel, backed by Agudath Israel have decided that certain restaurants without mechitza’s who serve women should lose their hashgacha. Warm Eating, is at the center of the controversy. Not only do they not have a mechitza in…
An interesting look at what a Charedi newspaper censors
I have always been curious about how the editors censor articles at Charedi publications. I’m pretty sure that anyone trying to write for the Yated, Mishpacha Magazine or Binah is going to be censored. I just was never sure how…
What really happens on mehadrin buses!
Someone posted this on facebook with the following question: What can we learn from this photo? Now that you’ve had a chance to digest this awfully untznius picture I’ll tell you what I learned from the picture. That showing your…
Anti-segregationists target synagogues
Dear Heshy, I write to you from Israel – this is my view as a religious person who is deeply disturbed by the growing anti-Haredi movements among those Israeli’s who do not understand what we are for. It wasn’t enough…
Charedi Bus segregation is a chillul Hashem
Thw following article is not a joke, it was actually published in all seriousness… Amidst all the controversy pertaining to mehadrin bus lines at the moment in Israel, sparked in part by a woman who instigated the issue when she…
Ultra-Orthodox Facebook is a big hit with frum gays
In an effort to stem the temptation of mingling between the sexes, ultra orthodox Jews have created FaceGlat, the worlds first kosher social networking site where members can only be “friends” with their same gender. Not surprisingly the site has…
A personal account of the events in Bet Shemesh
By: Etana Hecht As many of you know, this past week in Bet Shemesh has not been pleasant one. For those of you who have been hearing bits here and there, or reading articles in the press, I’d like to…
Center for Haredi Phobia opens in Israel
The Center for Haredi Phobia opened in Israelthe other day, the center will offer unique programs to change the minds of those who fear and hatred the Haredim in Israel. It is has been thought for sometime that people in…
My response to Rabbi Steven Pruzansky’s article on Orthopraxy
There’s been a lot of talk in the Jewish Blogging world about the following article written by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky in this past weeks Jewish Press. I have copied and pasted the article here with my responses to each of…
Study shows Haredi men to be in superior health
In a shocking new study, researchers have found that Haredi men tend to be in better shape than Modern Orthodox men. The study which was done over the past three years in Israel came to these conclusions last week as…
Unpious Blog: Chassidic Rebels with a cause
If you take a tour around the Jewish Blogging world you will find countless blogs written by the chassidic fringe about their experience of being stuck in a Charedi world while they are non-believers. There are some great sites out…