The last time I was in New York it was for sheva brachos, that was the last time I saw most of my friends and family (besides for the tech folks who come for work and the outdoors folks that…
Tag: frum
The differences between cults and legitimate Torah organizations
I’ll be honest with you folks, I always thought that by being an Orthodox Jew I was part of a cult, but Cross-Currents just published an article that has cleared my conscience and it has allowed me to breathe more…
What would the frum world do without photo shop?
While the debate over whether or not the internet is good or bad for the frum community can take on many sides. Many of those fighting and threatening to boycott major internet companies for the destruction they have wreaked on…
What would you do if you caught your wife wearing tefillin?
Hey Hesh, Been reading your blog for years, biggest fan, love your work, etc, etc…I’ll save the ass kissing for another time. Since you’ve written a bit on the women wearing tefillin crisis that has suddenly hit the frum community…
What’s next? Kosher Diapers?
I remember when I first heard about kosher water, I was taken aback and it reaffirmed my belief that the kasharus industry was merely the mafia with beards and black hats that didn’t tilt to the side. I grew up…
Since when did shvartze become a racist word?
The problem with Baal Teshuvas is that instead of just playing the game of Orthodoxy and Frumkeit, they seek to custom mold it to their views. While I was busy at work and not able to join you fine folks…
One of the best frum songs ever
And the worst if you just change the chorus to “touched”
New sefer on Hilchos Prison
With more and more Orthodox Jews going to prison these days (obviously it’s due to antisemitism and those who are moser) one has to wonder about the strange halachic conundrums that must come up. How does one know what time…
First shul for sex offenders opens in Monsey
Monsey – It’s been almost a decade since being a frum sex offender became fashionable and in all that time, many community members have wondered about whether to allow convicted sex offenders into their shuls. Apparently children come to shul…
Frum girls expect only women to watch their videos
Ever since the Internet Asifa, more and more frum people have discovered the joys of the internet. Unfortunately, one of the things the Asifa failed to teach the throngs of people who showed up to hear the wisdom of the…
Strange Frum Sex Abuse music video
I don’t get this video, on the one hand it seems like an anti-protest video and on the other it seems like one in which he’s telling people to stand up and fight. It’s the first time I’ve seen a…
10 best tznius posters and letters
I’m not exactly sure when certian people in the frum community decided to make tznius into the cause of all the calamities that befall the Jewish people, but it seems that the two major causes of evil in this world…
I don’t trust Orthodox Rabbis don’t have beards
I received this disturbing comment the other day in response to this post: While I agree with you on the gay marriage issue, I can tell you that some of the greatest Orthodox rabbis of the 20th-21st centuries were clean…
The Torah view of drones
Drones is one of those hotly debated topics that seem to cross political lines, to the untrained non-Torah observant Jew the debate is not conclusive. Torah Jews however, understand that Hashem is recording our every action. We understand that whether…
20 Most slurred words by frum people
My wife recently told me that it took her years to figure out that Bracha Livatala was two words that contained multiple syllables. That got me thinking about the hundreds of words frum people slur into combinations that seldom match…
Eating Chinese Food on Christmas is not frum
I didn’t know from this Chinese Food Christmas minhag until I first met non-religious Jews. All I can remember from the Christmas of my youth is asking our doorman if we could take candy canes off of our lobbies tree,…
Will frummies finally celebrate Thanksgiving this year?
Thanksgiving is one of the few goyishe holidays that is actually a debate in the frum community. Unlike most other goyishe holidays, Thanksgiving is a new world holiday and therefore there is some sort of mesorah to celebrate it. It…
I finally heard an inspirational BT story firsthand
As a certified conspiracy theorist of the frum community, I generally doubt the validity of inspirational stories, especially the ones that seem to be designed to make people frum. Back in the day, before the Charedi world decided it could…
I am not Orthodox: Chabad propaganda
If you ever ask someone who’s of chabad stock if they are chabad, they will generally respond to you that they’re just Jewish and that they don’t like labels. No one likes labels, but for the sake of deciding where…
Get out of your comfort zone
There’s a certain comfort I get from being uncomfortable when I walk into shul on shabbos morning in the middle of laining, the rabbi is sitting up front, the entire shul can see me go to the other end to…
Interview with an Off The Derech community leader Part2
The interview was too long for one post and so here you have it, part two of the interview with Rachmuna Litzlon, one of the Off The Derech community leaders. We don’t need another long introduction. I should mention that…
Interview with an Off The Derech community leader
You may remember that guy who was trying to sell his olam habah on Ebay, but Rachmuna Litzlon AKA Ari Mandel is also one of the Off The Derech community leaders online. Between his overly active Facebook page, groups, twitter,…
Jewish Porn Magazine searches for titles
I received an email recently from a fan who is coming out with the first ever Jewish porn magazine, he said that within the growing off the derech community there are numerous beautiful maidlach that are “uneducated and have no…
Dear Heshy: Can one actually be frum if they live out of town?
Dear Heshy, I know that you live out of town and consider yourself frum, so I hope that you and your out of town readers don’t take this the wrong way, but I always felt that those folks who moved…
Frum women don’t like sex
Pretty much from the time I was 13 I’ve been taught that frum women aren’t horny, they don’t have the same needs, wants, or desperation as men, and this is why we spend so much of our time talking about…