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Why the Duck Dynasty fiasco scares me
I think the Duck Dynasty fiasco scares me so much because I agree wholeheartedly with both sides. As a religious person who follows an ancient, antiquated document that didn’t really keep up with the times (bigotry, idol worship, slavery, child…
The 20 things that frum people are most afraid of
If you’re frum, there’s a pretty good chance that you live in a constant fear of many things. I was consistently taught to be afraid of the goyim, because secretly they want to repeat what the Nazis did to us.…
Is the frum community ready for the Gay Crisis?
As the rest of the world tries to figure out how they feel about Gay Marriage, Gay movies, and gay cowboys, many Orthodox Jewish communities are trying to figure out who exactly is gay in their community. It’s been known…
Ovadia Yosef said racist things, so did Ghandi!
The mobs were quick to attack Rav Ovadia Yosef for being a racist, but I wasn’t so sure that this would put a dent on his larger than life personality and decades of good tidings. You see, I’m of the…
Two yeshiva guys making out
I was recently talking with this rather yeshivish dude who moved into our community, not sure how it came up, but I told him that my favorite neighborhood in San Francisco happened to be the gayest neighborhood. His response was…
Homosexuality is an Abomination
Last week I received a message from Chabad.org’s Ask the Rabbi and apparently someone had used my email to ask some of the questions in the post below. I found it entertaining and I guess the Rabbi who got back…
Why don’t we just call it the Israeli Gay Parade?
There are plenty of people who feel the need to blame the Charedim for problems in Israeli society, but I’d like to point my finger at two groups that should just form their own country. The Feminists and The Gays…
New app warns drivers approaching a gay mob
Orthodox Jews in Israel celebrated a new app that works on kosher phones, the app is designed to warn drivers when they are coming upon a gay mob. Many unfortunate incidents happen in Israel when the Ultra-Orthodox happen upon gay…
Offensive bumper stickers: Unless you agree with them
Thanks to David for sending me this picture from The Gothamist. I guess I don’t find it offensive, because most of the frum folks I know agree wholeheartedly with every bumper sticker on this car, I’m just not sure they…
Why Baal Teshuvas are bad for the frum community
I already know this post is going to disliked by some of you, but I hope that some of you will be open minded enough to read through it and understand that this is not against the entire Baal teshuva…
What does Pesach have to do with coming out of the closet?
I just got this in the mail and it actually makes sense that coming out of the closet is the LGBTQA (whatever happened to just LGBT, it’s getting too long to roll off your tongue) persons personal exodus. I’m sure…
Is it ethical for Orthodox Jews to support companies which are anti-Torah?
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…
Chinuch Roundatble: Frum gay man wonders if it’s better to date Jews or non-Jews
Dear Chinuch Roundtable: I’m a frum gay man. I’m not sure which is better, to date non-Jews or Jews. On the one hand I have much more in common with other frum guys, on the other hand, I feel bad…
Mitt Romney and his homosexualist agenda
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: RABBI YEHUDA LEVIN (718) 569-8438 850 Plus Rabbis Denounce Romney as a “Dangerous Homosexualist” Urge Mormon Church to Sanction Him The Rabbinical Alliance of America, a 70 year old organization of over 850 Orthodox Jewish Rabbis…
Chesed Week: Helping gays and lesbians keep the Torah
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The San Francisco Circumcision Ban: Not your typical view
I never thought that the circumcision ban was a big deal until I had the pleasure of eating with two different peopl;e involved in the fight to have it removed from the ballot, both were passionate, both were very liberal…
Dear Heshy: How could you be frum and support gay marriage?
Someone sent me a real thoughtful message on Facebook trying to figure my opinions on the subject out and I asked if I could reprint our little conversation here. We may be beating a dead horse, but I’ve been kn…
Have you ever seen a Jewish Jihad video?
So I was browsing around You Tube the other day and I found this guy Rabbi Levin who’s a pretty right wing guy who loves to talk about the gays, it seems that you can’t find enough videos of Rabbi…
Halachic questions for the gay man
Believe it or not, some gay folks actually keep halacha (besides for the better to die than sleep with another man thing – but let’s be dan l’kav z’chus – who said they are acting on it-Right?) Not only do…
Frum Gay Singles Shabbaton
It to happen at some point, you gotta figure that the more we talk about gays in the frum community the more services there will be for them. We are Jews after all and when there’s business’s and money to…
If you saw someone being harassed, would you intervene?
I posted this on my facebook account and unfortunately people weren’t too sympathetic, I understand that people usually don’t want to get involved in fights, but to say nasty things is uncalled for. I don’t care why someone is getting…
Boteach writes pro-Gay article: The frummies are pissed
Vos Iz Neias has an editorial ripping Shmuely Boteach a new one (not through gay sex chas v’shalom) in which the Rabbi writing it goes through all the classic anti gay arguments including the fact that if we accept gays…
Why the OU is opposed to same-sex marriage
This quote from the OU is priceless! “In addition to our religious values — which we do not seek to impose on anyone — we fear legal recognition of same-sex ‘marriage’ poses a grave threat to the fundamental civil right…