Living in San Francisco makes playing Jewish geography much more difficult. Besides for dealing with the average frummies negative feelings towards SF, I have to deal with most frummies thinking that SF and LA are right next to each (in a…
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You know you’re from out of town if…
In the frum world, Out of Town or OOT for short is generally considered anyone who lives outside of the New York metro area. Not only is it a term to mark geographic location, it is generally used in the…
To the outside world, frum Jews are just rude
I may cook for the most goyishe restaurant in the world, but it’s still pretty frum when you look at the random little events that take place or that I get asked about by the servers who take things at…
Are frummies rude or is it just a New York thing?
So I was getting lunc to day at Shimon’s Pizza (after trying all the pizza on main street I like theirs the best) on Main street in Queens when this old man walks in. “How much is a slice?” Spanish…
Jewish Geography explained
I have come in contact with many folks who read this blog and google the words or concepts they don’t understand, I have always thought of Jewish Geography to be self explanatory, but the way that frummies play it is…
My first two days in Israel
I landed in Israel and just told the sharoot guy to let me off at the shuk, I had rugalechs and shawarma on my mind, I hadn’t eaten a real meal save for the airplane food in 3 days and…
Lubavitchers have their own way of playing Jewish geography
Lubavitchers have a completely different set of rules when it comes to Jewish geography then the rest of the Jewish community does. This is simply because they are everywhere and everyone is related to someone, which makes Lubavitcher Jewish geography…
The unifying power of Jewish Geography
I sat at the nicely decorated table and waited for the newly married couple to come out, seated around the circular table were a random assortment of complete strangers tapping each other on the shoulder every time they wanted someone…