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…
Tag: gedolim
10 most common Gadol stories
I love gadol biographies, I find myself sitting in shul most every shabbos delving into the stories, lies, fabrications, and mythology surrounding the stories of the shtetl and all those illui’s who knew shas by the age of 13 and…
Knowing a lot of Torah doesn’t make you better
One of the biggest complaints I hear from people going through a crisis of faith is that the community leaders and rabbis are hypocrites. You can take a sampling online each day of the critical blogs and you can almost…
Finally a Charedi Rabbi we can all respect
It’s rough out there in Charedi land, too many Rabbonom get mixed up in affairs they shouldn’t be involved in and end up being caught up in the hypocrisy that leads to so many crisis of faith. I’ve been getting…
10 ways that the internet has changed the frum community
When the internet first started becoming popular, most of the frum community thought it was another fad that they could do without and force others to do without. You had to sign forms claiming that you didn’t have it in…
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz needs to stop bashing Charedim
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz is a one man show, he only cares about pushing his own agenda while trampling on our gedolei yisroel and talmidei chachumim. Have you noticed that the only one’s sharing his tweets, blog posts, and rallying cries,…
Just because he’s your gadol, doesn’t mean he’s my gadol!
Matzav.com is stealing all of my ideas, only they take themselves way too seriously. If the gedolim were being respectable, I’m sure they would be getting some of that coveted respect, but just because they’re “your” gadol, doesn’t mean they’re…
Foil the NSA with these Kippot
The gedolim were right all along. The Internet should be assur! Nothing good comes from it. It is full of depravity, impurity, and lust-invoking materials. It’s even worse than we thought. According to recent reports, the government knows all the…
Ben and Jerry’s introduces Gadol themed ice cream
Thanks to my old yeshiva mate Moty Raven for coming up with this piece of brilliance, so brilliant, yet possibly offensive to most folks including me who hold much of the alter daas Torah in high esteem. My favorite pieces…
The Asifa is done: I was fooled
Guest post By Eliyahu Fink originally posted on his blog Let’s make this short and sweet. The askanim I spoke with assured me that the Asifa would not ban the Internet. I explained that there is plenty of reason for…
Is the Internet Asifa a scam?
I went to Shul in Ditmas Park (near Flatbush) this past shabbos and the related over a horrible story about a 15 year old bais yaakov girl led astray by her friend who pointed her to an unmentionable website. Her…
Tehilim emergency
Raboisai, we are living in difficult times. A bunch of gedolim are in the hospital, or just got out of the hospital this week. Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rav Ahron Leib Shteinerman, Rav Yisrael Belsky, Rav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, Rav…
Occupy Beit Shemesh: Where are the 99% of Charedim who don’t support this?
I told myself that I wasn’t going to be commenting on news this week, but the craziness going on in Beit Shemesh deserves some attention, I have been told that it is not the majority of Charedim who agree with…
The pre-internet gedolim are helping us battle the yetzer harah
Sooner or later, all of the elder gedolim will be gone and we will be faced with a crisis, the crisis I speak of is the fact that most of the elder gedolim are from the times when gedolim still…
The chumra crisis: We need more chumras
You may have also noticed this trend, but I have been alarmed by the fact that no new chumras have been created by the gedolim or their funders for some time. Back during the mid 2000’s it seemed like there…
Gedolim warn of the dangers of Wikipedia
A guest post by Philo KOL KOREH A GRAVE WARNING FROM OUR GEDOLIM, SHLITA, ABOUT THE ENTRY “GADOL” ON “WIKIPEDIA” BS”D The danger of the Internet has long been known and publicized, that through it one could easily reach places…
Are bloggers good for the orthodox Jewish community?
I was wondering for sometime what cause Matzav.com would take on in order to compete with Yeshiva World News and Vos Iz Neias. First they tried to go the frum route, they tried to debate whether or not to post…
Is Facebook or Smoking more assur?
It’s not another satirical piece by me, it’s actually a fairly lengthy discussion in one of the yeshiva world news coffee room forums and it’s a pretty hot debate. The basic premise is that smoking will cause you physical harm,…
Haredi Rabbis Ban Vos Iz Neias
I was wondering when it would finally happen, everyone knew that VIN’s sole purpose was to show how foolish the frum community looked when it tried to formulate opinions, but the Rabbis probably never saw it and were kind of…
Television: A cry of anguish and appeal to out Jewish Brethren
We Jews have been designated by G-d to be a “kingdom of priests, a holy nation.” Unfortunately, however, in the two thousand years of our Diaspora, the nobility of the Jewish character has suffered from considerable onslaught. In recent times,…
Vacations are almost banned
Its been some time since the Charedim have tried to ban something, this is mostly because the riots, the gays and the scandals have kept the Rabbis and their henchmen from concentrating on more important things like banning vacations, the…
Rockstar Rebbes and the frum paparazzi
Every week the Jewish newspaper Yated has a Rebbe centerfolds section, with pictures of Rebbes doing everything from cutting a birthday cake, drinking mayim chayim seltzer and walking to their cars after a wedding – which was always of the…
The latest Charedi riots are a huge chillul Hashem
I can sort of understand rioting because shabbos is being desecrated, but rioting because a child abuser was arrested is completely insane, and a huge chillul Hashem in my opinion. I literally couldn’t believe my ears when I heard about…
Rabbis in Brooklyn finally make a good ban
Vos Iz Neias is reporting that 30 leading Rabbis in Brooklyn have signed a religious ban on price gouging for Pesach items. Sounds like socialism to me, but I won’t point any fingers because I like it, well really it…