I don’t write much about Israel because it’s one of those heated debates that never seems to change or end. There are very few moderates, either you want to push the Arabs into the sea or you want to force…
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10 Best Snowman pictures from the Israel snowstorm
There are a ton of cool pictures from the snowstorm that just hit Israel, but I think the snowman pictures are the best. There are a lot of them and many of them are good, but the following are my…
Women risk life and limb to get to the mikvah during the snowstorm
The media, myself included, is constantly deriding the Charedim in Israel for its poor treatment of women. We tend to notice the bad, the bus beat downs, the public protests, riots, the evil modesty signs in Meah Shearim, but we…
10 best pictures from the snow storm in Israel
1)The only guy to show up to the women of the wall protest. Received via email 2) Arabs decide to throw snowballs, not stones! (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
Ovadia Yosef said racist things, so did Ghandi!
The mobs were quick to attack Rav Ovadia Yosef for being a racist, but I wasn’t so sure that this would put a dent on his larger than life personality and decades of good tidings. You see, I’m of the…
A Woman at the Wall; A Bystanders Experience of the Rosh Chodesh Sivan events
A Woman at the Wall; A Bystanders Experience of the Rosh Chodesh Sivan events The author who sent this to me wishes to remain anonymous. I was on the way back from Tahoe and Yosemite so I wasn’t even aware…
Obama says “God Bless Israel”
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New app warns drivers approaching a gay mob
Orthodox Jews in Israel celebrated a new app that works on kosher phones, the app is designed to warn drivers when they are coming upon a gay mob. Many unfortunate incidents happen in Israel when the Ultra-Orthodox happen upon gay…
There’s no such thing as mainstream Judaism
Guest post by Pop Chossid The summer before I left for Israel to study in Mayanot (a baal teshuva yeshiva in Jerusalem) for the first time, I had gone to a Shabbos lunch at a rabbi’s home in St. Louis,…
Dear Heshy: Why don’t you support Israel?
Apparently it wasn’t just the folks in the comments who took my very sarcastic comment about Israel seriously. Check out this email I received yesterday from a reader that really disturbs me, because if people took such an obvious joke…
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…
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…
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…
Who can come up with the best caption for this picture?
So that’s what girls look like? Why aren’t they making kugel? They forgot to put a mechitza in their cage.
Is there really a sheep’s milk shortage or is Trader Joe’s not willing to sell Israeli Feta?
The truth is I couldn’t care less about parve chocolate chips, but this past Tuesday I couldn’t find any pastures of Eden Feta which Trader Joe’s has carried for sometime. I was told by multiple Trader Joe’s that there was…
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…
Picture of the day: Ducking Palestinian Missiles in Be’er Sheva
Fighting to protect your country is against the Torah!
A guest post by Philo originally posted on Dov Bear Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach has come out strongly against the decision of Israel’s supreme court to strike down the Tal law (which allowed Yeshiva students to avoid army duty.) He declared that the decision was a “terrible gzeira that…
You know those kids who come back from Israel and can’t shut up about it
Don’t get me wrong, I love Israel, the first thing I do when I get off the plane is take a bus to Jerusalem and stuff my face with some shawarma and rugalech from the shuk. Then I hit up…
Mehadrin bus models
I posted a picture last week, but now someone sent me the video of the mehadrin bus model photo shoot and it’s worth taking a look. I don’t think the Charedi political machine is prepared for this sort of thing.…
Facebook says Israel doesn’t exist, big deal!
Every few days or so, I get an email from someone asking me to write about some company or website that called Israel Palestine or something along those lines. I’m sure I’m about to open an old can of pork…
What really happens on mehadrin buses!
Someone posted this on facebook with the following question: What can we learn from this photo? Now that you’ve had a chance to digest this awfully untznius picture I’ll tell you what I learned from the picture. That showing your…
Why kids who go to yeshiva in Israel “frum-out”
We have all seen it before, your next door neighbors kid, fresh off the boat from his year in Israel. The different yarmulke, maybe the longer tzitzis, that kissing of his hand after he shakes yours (maybe it’s an immunity…
Shabbos Goy Union on strike after tap water banned on shabbat
The Benei Brak Shabbos Goy Union is out on strike after a controversial ruling by a rabbi yesterday. Now that tap water is banned on shabbat, many union members fear that they will have to do a lot more work…