It’s generally known that frum Jews are quite right wing politically, yet they rarely speak up with their wallets. Rare is it that we really get into the hearts of the matter by boycotting or speaking out against companies that…
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You say you’re conservative, but you’re pretty frum!
Like most folks who grew up in a frum environment I had very little exposure to other non-“orthodox” streams of Judaism. The entire extended family on my fathers side is frum all the way back, so I never had any…
Chassidim: The Taliban of the Jews!!!
The biggest problem I have with yesterday’s events is that I’m not surprised. I have watched over the years as the Chassidic movement has shrunk from it’s holy stature in my mind, to a bunch of zealots who place more…
Matzav vs. Vos Iz Neias: Jewish news sites go to war
My personal thoughts are that the frum Jewish news sites are merely blogs full of copied and pasted material, I always figured a news site would have reporters and cover their own stories. It seems that the only one that…
Are frummies rude or is it just a New York thing?
So I was getting lunc to day at Shimon’s Pizza (after trying all the pizza on main street I like theirs the best) on Main street in Queens when this old man walks in. “How much is a slice?” Spanish…