If you weed through all the negativity and Chabad bashing that permeates the Jewish world and beyond, you begin to realize that Chabad is the most practical sect within Orthodoxy. People love to point out the negative cult like traits…
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Things commonly mislabled as Sinas Chinam
For a few weeks each year, Jews try to hold back their sinas chinam AKA baseless hatred. Generally, sinas chinam is alive and well in the Jewish community, but being as we just came out of the 9 days, many…
Why this was the best Tisha B’av ever.
Every year Tisha B’av seems the same to me. It’s a mixed feeling of manufactured sadness and confusion about what the sadness is really about. Last Shabbos, the ruv of my shul delivered the same drosho that dozens of rabbis…
10 Things I hate about being frum
Now that Deborah Feldman has the limelight, I know a post like this may get overlooked, so I can finally come out of the closet and talk about my own issues with being frum and why I have contemplated going…