I find this video terribly stupid, but since you people keep asking me if I’ve seen in, I figure the only way to get you off my back is to post it.
Tag: charity
What’s the strangest Chinese Auction prize you’ve seen?
Despite the fact that I’m against Chinese Auctions because they make tzedaka into something which there must be immediate reward for, I find myself looking at them anyway. Sure, I feel like a hypocrite whenever I sign up for another…
The new era of Tzedakah…$50,000 raffles
When I was a kid you didn’t get much gashmius in return for your tzedakah, you got the good feeling every kid gets when their parent gives them mitzvah money for the pushka box, but you didn’t get prizes or…
Tzedakah: The frum communities best attribute
I would like to retell a story that I heard from Rabbi Levine of San Jose’s Congregation Am Echad: An Israeli man had just finished collecting money in South Florida to marry off his daughter, he was on his way…
Vote FC – help friendship circle win $1 million
By now I am sure many of you have gotten emails, facebook invites or seen tweets on how you can help Friendship Circle win $1 million from Chase Bank. I have gotten countless request to write about it and here…
Help my brother open a Moishe House in Boulder Colorado
My brother wants to open a Moishe House in Boulder, Colorado – so he made this video as part of the application process, I just hope they don’t deduct points for being religious. From what I understand the only fully…
What do you think about giving tzedaka to get things in return?
The greatest piece of frum community catalog type literature is the Oorah Chinese auction catalog. It can be seen in countless frum homes sually sitting on top of a pile of mail, old yateds or stacked in the bathroom next…