Tag: chassidim

Can Judaism survive the Internet?

Guest post by Rabbi Fink  Slate has another article in their unofficial series on orthodox Judaism and specifically on chasidic Judaism. In this article, the Internet is presented as a supreme danger to Hasidism. On this issue, the secular media…

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…

Why I believe Deborah Feldman

Why I believe Deborah Feldman Guest post By David Lerner Part 1: Concepts of print & Murder, she wrote. “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. It is the peculiar snare of the perplexed orthodox,” – H.G. Wells in The…

The Deborah Feldman fiasco

It seems that everyone (most of the frum community) was pretty pissed off at Deborah Feldman, but i guess those people never really wandered around the hundreds ex-chassidic blogs before. I also guess that every time one of our own…

Bressolver Propaganda

Someone posted this on another post so I decided to repost it, because I love some good old propaganda. II’m not surewhether the story is true or not, but I found it pretty entertaining so why not? I love how women…

Bulletproof stockings

Chassidic women typically wear something called the bulletproof stocking. These stockings are typically olive or some sort of brown, they aren’t those sexy black one’s they sell in Victoria’s Secret. These stockings are typically called bulletproof stockings by the rest…