There were dozens of great pictures from the rallies protesting the IDF draft, here are a few of them. If we teach our kinder the way of Hashem, maybe they can make a kiddush hashem in prison and make tatty…
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There’s no such thing as a Haredi Feminist
There was an article on Haaretz about a supposedly Haredi (Charedi) feminist who is trying to make it so women can be elected to office in Charedi parties. Immediately, I realized that this was just a sensationalist news story from…
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,…
Dear Heshy: Why do you hate Charedim so much?
Dear Heshy, As a long time reader, I think I know you pretty well and I’ve been wondering why you hate Charedim so much. It seems that almost every post on this blog is aimed at tearing down the Torah…
Modesty Hotline: Here come the honor killings
Television was easy to deal with, you didn’t need it for work, you could hardly justify it as an educational tool, and there were plenty of folks like me who had bumper stickers that said “kill your television”. The internet…
Why you should care about the Charedim
It used to be that whenever I made fun of the Charedim (the one’s in Israel who start riots when the parking lot is open on shabbos or that want the women to sit in back of the bus) I…
Charedi technology to fight the war on pritzus
Now that we have blurry glasses, kosher phones and internet chavrusas to aid in the war on pritzus I was wondering what other technological innovations the Charedi world might come up with to stay one step ahead of those women…
Charedim market Blurry Glasses to aid in the war against Pritzus
If this was a few years ago I would have taken it as a joke, but after some Charedim spit on little girls going to school in Beit Shemesh and began calling women who sat on the front of buses…
Is this Antisemitic or just the facts we don’t want to hear?
This is a video about the growing problem of Charedi extremism in Israel, it’s an acknowledged problem by most orthodox Jews, but have you ever wondered what it looks like to the outside world? The Jewish reaction to this video…
What happened to appreciating what’s on the inside?
Not a day goes by where we don’t hear of a newspaper refusing to publish pictures of women, or of someone photoshopping a picture to appear more “tznius”. Why is there such an overblown obsession with keeping things tznius to…
Rabbis in Israel force restaurant without mechitzas to close
Charedi Rabbis in Israel, backed by Agudath Israel have decided that certain restaurants without mechitza’s who serve women should lose their hashgacha. Warm Eating, is at the center of the controversy. Not only do they not have a mechitza in…
An interesting look at what a Charedi newspaper censors
I have always been curious about how the editors censor articles at Charedi publications. I’m pretty sure that anyone trying to write for the Yated, Mishpacha Magazine or Binah is going to be censored. I just was never sure how…
Kosher camera blots out women’s faces in the name of modesty
I’ve always said that much of orthodoxy ends up being about the money, sure there’s sex involved, but it almost always leads to some sort of swindel. You have the shidduch crisis, kollel and the latest mehadrin bus beat downs,…
A personal account of the events in Bet Shemesh
By: Etana Hecht As many of you know, this past week in Bet Shemesh has not been pleasant one. For those of you who have been hearing bits here and there, or reading articles in the press, I’d like to…
Is orthodox Judaism sexist?
Of course it’s sexist by today’s lackluster ethical morally depraved standards, we have dropped so far down the moral scale in the last 50 years that anything remotely reeking of religion is automatically shoved into the sexist closet. Ever since…
Haredi ads claim internet causes cancer
I’m not feeling well enough to write satire honestly, but news like this couldn’t wait. Thanks to Gila who sent me the following piece from Ynet News, which really makes me wonder if these people aren’t crack. I completely understand…
Haredi girls protest driving ban by going go-karting
In order to keep the morals of society from spinning downward like the rest of the world, many ultra orthodox groups in Israel ban women from driving. Women simply drive like maniacs according to most Rabbis and driving like a…
Center for Haredi Phobia opens in Israel
The Center for Haredi Phobia opened in Israelthe other day, the center will offer unique programs to change the minds of those who fear and hatred the Haredim in Israel. It is has been thought for sometime that people in…
Study shows Haredi men to be in superior health
In a shocking new study, researchers have found that Haredi men tend to be in better shape than Modern Orthodox men. The study which was done over the past three years in Israel came to these conclusions last week as…
Are you Charedi Style?
First there was kosher style, then there was Charedi style. Every time there is a scandal involving an orthodox Jew committing some crime everyone gets up in everyone’s grill about these people not really being orthodox and just being fakers.…
Bans that never made it
I am sure there are more bans that never made it, but this is just a short list that I could come up with…. Fish: Several years ago when it was discovered that water was unkosher because of the bugs…
Group wants colored shirts banned: Says they are women’s clothing
For some time it has been known that anyone caught wearing a colored shirt in religious communities around the world was likely to be ostracized by the community. Shidduchim, schooling, seminary, even real estate value can all be affected by…
Women should not learn torah their job is to cook and clean
This is a lengthier version of the Vos Iz Neias comment of the day, due to the fact that the comments listed below are a great way to welcome new folks into the orthodox fold. I used to wonder why…
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…