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Tag: Girls
5 reasons why girls should be able to put tefillin on
I’m pretty sure that the frum world is on high alert at the possible infiltration of Open Orthodoxy to our heimishe institutions such as SAR and Ramaz, who have decided to allow women to don tefillin. Ramaz took it one…
30 of the most important things I learned in yeshiva
Let me preface this post by saying that I probably would have learned most of the things had I not gone to yeshiva, but going to yeshiva definitely provides an education that is seldom matched elsewhere. Yeshiva graduates are definitely…
What do sexy frum girls and mixed martial arts have in common?
I’m not exactly sure what mixed martial arts and a bunch of random pictures of a bunch of hot frum girls have to do with each other, but yesterday, there was an article called “Have you ever BEEN with an…
Sternberg Hot Dog Story Confirmed
The Sternberg Hot Dog story is one of those frum Jewish urban legends that has never been confirmed. It goes as follows, a girl at Camp Sternberg (a large frum girls camp in upstate NY) was playing around with a…
I used to just go to shul just for the girls
Being married has its advantages, laundry more than once a month, home cooked meals, and not having to get tested for STD’s every time my crotch starts feeling the fire, but one of the biggest disadvantages is that shul is…
Topless and Tznius
Hippie Tznius by Chaya Miriam Fried With the torches-and-pitchforks rhetoric aimed at Pop Chossid’s article on tznius still hammering in our ears, The Husband and I entered into the anything-goes wonderland of Rainbow Gathering last Friday, several hours before shabbos…
It’s now untznius to mention a kallah’s name
I’m not sure how they do it in Baltimore (the person who sent this to me informed me that the kollel has a policy against mentioning women’s names), but when I was in yeshiva and someone got engaged, they always…
Gender Bending
Gender Bending by Chaya Miriam Fried I, like everyone else, pretended to be shocked when the halachic ruling was released today allowing select couples to choose the gender of their burgeoning babies with the help of a rav, of cour$e.…
Tu’Bav and the Single Guy
Guest post by Yonatan Sredni Panui?” the stocky, sweating, balding guy in the un-tucked white dress shirt and tiny knitted kippah atop his head, asked me over the blaring modern Chassidic dance music. At first I thought he was asking…
The Tznius Crisis
Dear Rabbi X, I would like to personally thank you for bringing the issue of tznius to the public. Since I read your letter, it has opened my eyes to a problem that is surely bigger and more severe than…
Picture of the day: Hot Israeli soldier in bikini
Come up with a good caption for that one and thank Hashem for creating such beauty.I now know why the Charedim are going to fight to the death against going to the army, if they saw stuff like this they…
Facebook is boring when you’re not trying to get some
Now that I’m not trying to score with the ladies, Facebook has gotten kind of boring. I used to be clever in my status updates and pretty much use Facebook as a tool to get girls. I’m sure that most…
A Single girls perspective on the shidduch crisis and narrow mindedness
The Shidduch Crisis and the Tyranny of Narrow Mindedness: A Single Girls Perspective (but what the heck can I possibly know, I’m not married…) Guest Post by Deena Sasoon Here is what you need to know about me. I’m female,…
Find me a shidduch: Into BDSM and Math
I know a lot of you may not want to admit this, but frum people may actually have sexual preferences. It also appears that sexual preferences are quite important, but there’s no way that this sort of thing could make…
The shidduch crisis comes down to girls being too unattractive
Why is it that the only frum girls that any frum guys ever talk about being attractive are chabad girls? Have you ever wondered about this phenomena? Have you ever wondered why there’s no shidduch crisis in the Lubavitcher world? Could…
Fum girls don’t become feminists
I’m not sure that women wanting to lain or say kiddush is necessarily feminism, but in the frum community it’s been deemed such and so I’ve been wondering why it is that frum girls usually don’t get into the feminism thing.…
Shit married girls say to singles
I hope to continue to say all sorts of shit to singles, but I sure as hell hope I don’t start telling people they are picky or what segulas they should do to help them find their mate. I found…
An argument against shomer negiah?
January’s been a slow work month for me so I’ve been wandering around the J-blogesphere a little at night. I came across Masculine Jew the other night, which appears to be a blog written by an anonymous sephardic guy who’s…
Shidduch Resume: 5ft 4, 110lbs, 34:24:35
I haven’t posted quite so many shidduch resumes on this site, because most people have only started to think beyond the pale of shidduch websites, asking their friends and facebook stalking. Most of the shidduch resumes I have posted are…
My top shidduch dating fails
This post will be a whole lot better if you folks participate. I only say this because although I have several funny fails from my short lived shidduch dating career, I am sure that you all have your own stories…
Frum society’s approach to frum girls is stiffling
Hi, I wrote this. I don’t know if its any good. What do you think? I am so irritated. I am trying to pick a seminary for next year, and of course, everyone has their opinion. I am a baal…
What are your red flags of dating?
I was just talking with my new GF about my red flags of dating. The biggest one for me is when a girl states that she cannot pee in the woods, if you know me it’s actually not so ironic,…
Cold front forces chabad girls to dress tzniusly
Unseasonable Cold in Crown Heights by Chaya Miriam Jurado An early cold snap was the big topic of conversation for out-of-towners during Tishrei in Crown Heights, leading others to believe that perhaps the most elevated spot in all of Brooklyn…
Girls mess with your concentration
In yeshiva, one of the ways they would try to deter us from talking to girls was to tell us how talking to them would make us lose our concentration. I’m not sure about you, but I’m pretty sure that…