I’ve come to realize that most of the shocking commentary that I read about goings on in the frum community doesn’t really effect most people on a day to day basis. Unfortunately or not this includes me as well, I…
Tag: internet
Can porn save shabbos?
Hey Hesh, I have an interesting situation I thought I’d share with you. A friend of mine recently admitted to me that he breaks shabbos to look at porn on the internet. I was a bit shocked that someone could…
Frum girls expect only women to watch their videos
Ever since the Internet Asifa, more and more frum people have discovered the joys of the internet. Unfortunately, one of the things the Asifa failed to teach the throngs of people who showed up to hear the wisdom of the…
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…
Having or not having a TV used to be the best way to judge someones observance level
I remember when you could judge someone’s entire family over whether or not they had a TV in the home. It used to be that TV was the most important singular factor in what yeshiva, seminary, summer camp, or shul…
How bad is your attention span?
I can track attention spans based on my experience in blogging alone, average attention spans have gone down in the 7 years or so that I’ve been blogging and I see them shrinking daily. I remember when it hit me…
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…
Rabbi Michael Broyde: Not the first to use fake online identity
By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Rabbi Michael Broyde, the disgraced Rabbi and professor who used fake identities online to bolster his clout, readership, support, audience, whatever people tend to do when they do that sort of thing. It…
Orthodox Jews keeping the porn magazine business alive
Los Angeles – Everyone knows that the Porn Industry is run by the Jews, but how many folks know that the Orthodox Jews are responsible for keeping the pornographic magazine industry alive. When internet porn came (no pun intended) onto…
Unfiltered Internet will cause you to sin
This is not a typical Frum Satire article, and quite frankly, I don’t even know if they’ll publish it. Unlike some other “frum” news sites, Frum Satire truly prides itself on being above base gossip and vile news that comes…
Is the Internet or TV worse for your neshama?
The Internet may be one of the first things that the Geolim can’t control, the Asifa and their constant banter about the evils that befall us on the Internet remind me of the Haskalah. Television on the other hand was…
Rosh Yeshiva pasuls witness at chupah because of iPhone
There was a time when I thought such a story would be a hoax, but those days are gone. There has been so much craziness in the chumra and anti-internet world that I’m willing to believe that a Rav would…
Can Judaism survive the Internet?
Guest post by Rabbi Fink Slate has another article in their unofficial series on orthodox Judaism and specifically on chasidic Judaism. In this article, the Internet is presented as a supreme danger to Hasidism. On this issue, the secular media…
Proof that the Internet Asifa worked
I had to dig deep into my google statistics the other day to get some information for an advertiser and I noticed something startling. While my traffic for the months of June and July was quite normal, my traffic sources…
Was the Asifa a greater Chillul Hashem than Feldman?
Feldman was evil because she made the world think we were all dysfunctional and mad, those same people who hated on Feldman made a far worse chillul hashem than Feldman could ever dream of…unless of course you’re one of those…
Internet Asifa organizer allegedly beat his own yeshiva students
Failed Messiah has a story about Rabbi Gottlieb, one of the main organizers of the Asifa, being involved in child abuse at a yeshiva he used to work for in Lakewood. While the charges are alleged, I’m sure someone with…
Let the Asifa spoofs begin
With all due respect, Gedolei Yisroel, YOU are a greater danger to children than the Internet.
Thousands of Charedim will gather at Citi Field to discuss the dangers of the internet
If the gedolim had only known that their attempts at taming the beast known as the internet would have been futile, I’m sure they may have gone about it a different way. For years they tried to ban, filter and…
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…
Japanese lab invents internet kissing machine
I’m not sure how I feel about kissing a machine that allows you to kiss folks over the internet, but I’m sure someone will find some use for it. I always wanted my first kiss to be special with a…
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…
Searching for Frum Porn? You’re not the only one!
So last Thursday night I was wandering my google analytics account and I decided to see what keyword combination’s people were using with the word “porn” to find my site, it was quite shocking, I see the occasional frum porn…
The most interesting person I’ve ever met
I like meeting new people, I meet them in line at the coffee shop, while riding my bike, in shul or online, in recent years I have met quite a few people due to my blog. Some of those people…
Another lame attempt to blame going off the derech on the internet and “secular society”
Every few years or so, some publication in the frum community decides to do a big write up about how we are losing our children to the terrible secular society, they are going off the derech in droves and we…