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: Charedim
Do you think Israel should force the Charedim to serve in the army?
In my mind it seems to be a cut and dry issue, a country that is constantly on the brink of war and destruction at the hands of the Arabs surrounding them needs to have a draft in order to…
Women risk life and limb to get to the mikvah during the snowstorm
The media, myself included, is constantly deriding the Charedim in Israel for its poor treatment of women. We tend to notice the bad, the bus beat downs, the public protests, riots, the evil modesty signs in Meah Shearim, but we…
Knockout game may be racist, but God forbid we say it is
I’ve been noticing the disturbing trend that many frum folks on Facebook are trying to prevent themselves from being labeled a racist by skirting around the “racial element” of The Knockout Game. There’s this obvious fear in being too forthcoming…
Is it fair to judge Orthodoxy by scandal?
This past shabbos, the Rabbi spoke about how “frum scandal” is the new yetzer harah, he spoke about how the frum scandal is used an excuse by people who don’t want to grow in their yiddishkeit. He’s absolutely right in…
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,…
Off The Derech Israel Tours
Just over a two years ago, Shalom and Micha decided to use their formerly religious mischief to battle the evil they saw perpetuated at the multiple missionary institutions in Jerusalem. Sharing a few victory beers after their first escapade, walking…
I guess blindfolds are better than segregation
Last week there were some interesting photos of chassidim leaving Israel for Uman, in them several folks could be seen wearing blindfolds. Naturally, I thought it was a joke, maybe a satirical piece run by the frum websites, because no…
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…
My problem with Women of the Wall is that I agree with both sides
I’ve been hearing about the women of the wall thing for years now, the gut reaction of any frum Jew is to be outraged. These women are just picking a fight, how can they use the holiest place of the…
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…
Metzitzah B’peh is banned in Flatbush
I thought Ave-J was banned years ago, it hasn’t been really happening since the late 90’s. Find more bans on 4torah.com
Caption Contest: Ultra Orthodox Man wrapped in plastic on airplane
I hope you can come up with a good caption, because Heeb magazine took mine. It’s an ultra orthodox delivery service that vacuum seals their deliveries so they arrive fresh. Other captions: Now I don’t have to watch that pritzus…
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…
What happened to appreciating what’s on the inside?
Not a day goes by where we don’t hear of a newspaper refusing to publish pictures of women, or of someone photoshopping a picture to appear more “tznius”. Why is there such an overblown obsession with keeping things tznius to…
Who can come up with the best caption for this picture?
So that’s what girls look like? Why aren’t they making kugel? They forgot to put a mechitza in their cage.
Are Ahavas Yisroel and Ahavas Torah compatible?
On the way to Yosemite recently I was listening to some old Mordechai Ben David stuff, one of those “gay” (sorry there’s no other word that describes it as good) English songs for frummies came on about all the suffering…
The Asifa is done: I was fooled
Guest post By Eliyahu Fink originally posted on his blog Let’s make this short and sweet. The askanim I spoke with assured me that the Asifa would not ban the Internet. I explained that there is plenty of reason for…
Do you find these Charedi dolls offensive?
I’ve been getting some criticism about how I’ve gone all liberal and anti-religious, but really the religious fundamentalists have gone all right wing and crazy – just take a look at this children’s propaganda.
Is the Internet Asifa a scam?
I went to Shul in Ditmas Park (near Flatbush) this past shabbos and the related over a horrible story about a 15 year old bais yaakov girl led astray by her friend who pointed her to an unmentionable website. Her…
Behind the Charedi PR machine
From the outside it looks like any other home in Boro Park, even the ground floor looks like a normal home. The cherry wood bookcases containing volumes of Talmudic discussion, the glass case filled with ritual silver, right down to…
Mehadrin bus models
I posted a picture last week, but now someone sent me the video of the mehadrin bus model photo shoot and it’s worth taking a look. I don’t think the Charedi political machine is prepared for this sort of thing.…
Kosher camera blots out women’s faces in the name of modesty
I’ve always said that much of orthodoxy ends up being about the money, sure there’s sex involved, but it almost always leads to some sort of swindel. You have the shidduch crisis, kollel and the latest mehadrin bus beat downs,…