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Record Breaking Two Kiddush Hashems in one week
The last few years have been unkind to Orthodox Jewry, rising chillul hashem has all but erased the public kiddush hashems that once graced us by the boatload. We have sunk beyond depravity into a world where insular leaders protect…
Are black hats a chillul hashem?
The Rabbi gave a little talk on Friday night about how Jews should look respectful in public, he spoke about how Jews shouldn’t attract unwarranted attention or look weird. He said that looking weird, or wearing something odd can be…
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 &…
Off The Derech shayala: I’m scared to make a kiddush Hashem
Since you had yourself thrown out of the group (the Off The Derech group), here’s a shaylah for the OTD dayan. Advice needed. I sometimes ride the subway, and when an older person comes into my subway car, I want…
Is Mindy Meyer making a chillul Hashem?
Just received this from one of my very frum fans/critics who may or may not be serious. Over a dozen people have asked me to write about Mindy Meyer and I refrained because I felt my opinions may offend some…
Shmuely Boteach was more embarrassing on Dr. Phil than Pearlperry Reich
Guest post by Rabbi Eliyahu Fink I spent 45 minutes of my life watching Pearl Perry Reich, her boyfriend Shauly and Rabbi Shmuley on the Dr. Phil Show. It was mortifying. But not because Perry and Shauly can’t speak proper…
I love hate mail like this
My dear fellow Jew, Your ignorance of basic Judaism is so evident in your threads, posts, broadcasts and discussions. What you post on the web is there, for a long, long time. Not only to Jews read this, but non-Jews…
Why the current use of the term “Torah Jew” is a chillul hashem
Found this interesting piece on the blog To Kiss a Mezuzah and received permission to re-post here. By Susan Esther Barnes We Jews seem to have a lot of labels for ourselves these days. Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, Chasidic,…
Kiddush Hashems of the week
It may sound strange, but Shmarya Rosenberg of Failed Messiah deserves credit for helping me come up with the idea for this hopefully weekly post. you see he has this weekly piece on the Heeb Magazine Blog where he does…
Is it our responsibility to publicize a Chillul Hashem?
I kind of feel cool to have made the People’s Court Wiggin out video viral, well sort of viral, when I first received it via email from my friends brother Gabe it had 2,900 views – I sent it to…
Am I overreacting or does this piss you off as well?
In my opinion the following video is a true chillul Hashem; if you go and look up the definition for sinas chinam, this video would be there. The funny part about it is that while trying to lump everyone together,…
Personal mechitzas marketed to Charedim struggling with mile high club fantasies
Last week there was some news about a company in Israel marketing personal mechitzas for Charedim traveling on planes that don’t want to watch movies or wrestle with some immodestly dressed seat mate for the arm rest and I think…
Presenting Rabbi Yehuda Levin
Rabbi Yehuda Levin made this video to get attention and it’s working, it is also a huge Chillul Hashem. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is not the first to claim that homosexuality has lead God to destroy random innocent people. Some of…
Why have the Rabbis been silent about Leib Tropper?
This interview which appeared in the Five Towns Jewish Times illustrates why the Rabbis have been silent, which is mostly because there is sex and women involves. It seems to me that the Rabbis are silent whenever the scandal involved…
Is talking about Leib Tropper in a public manner a chillul Hashem?
“The enormous Chillul Hashem reported in Sunday’s New York Post is almost without precedent in thousands of years of Jewish history.” As quoted by Vos Iz Neias about Rabbi Leib Tropper sex tape scandal. It seems to me and you…
On people who remove their yamrulkes when entering a bar
I found this post on Material Maidels blog about two guys she and her friend went to a club with that removed their yarmulkes when they walked into the bar. I am one of the only people I know that…
What is a Chillul Hashem?
Not a day goes by that my in-boxes are void of some sort of message telling me that I am making a Chillul Hashem (e.g. desecrating God’s name through my comedy). Whether via an angry email, Facebook message, Tweet, or…