Room 612 (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Do Not Disturb Sign) Guest Post by Anshel M. Some call it being a “612er”, those of us that are shomer mitzvos but can’t seem to adhere to…
Tag: jewish humor
What’s under the modest swimwear?
Recently, a company in Israel advertised their modest swimwear for frum women on many Jewish community e-mail lists. One list member asked me the obvious question, and it has bothered me since. What is the point of modest swimwear? Do frum…
70 modern orthodox things
I’m kind of having fun with these lists and as many of you know I’m not one to settle for just 1 list, when I make lists I make them for every sect of Jew and ironically this is the…
The things I didn’t learn in Yeshiva
Someone was talking about this thing called Oregon Trail tonight and she was aghast that I had no idea what it was. She said “didn’t you use Oregon Trail during computer class in school” to which I responded “huh, you…
10 perks of being in an arranged marriage
I always find it super cool when I realize that chassidim are reading my blog, I know they are because it’s quite rare for me to walk around Williamsburg or New Square without being recognized, but I don’t think I…
Why do purim shpiels suck so much?
So naturally around purim time I get sent a lot of purim shpiel videos and this year they have sucked more than ever. After watching so many of these shpiels, most of which took time to think up and produce,…
A Trip To Miami video goes viral
To be honest with you I’m only posting this A trip to Miami stop the dozens (probably about a hundred) tweets, facebook messages and emails – asking me to post this. I saw the video before it went viral, I…
I just had sex – orthodox Jewish version
So for some reason or another (mostly because it’s a damned catchy song) the SNL song I just had sex has been stuck in my head for a few days and ironically a friend of mine just sent this hilarious…
The most annoying frum Jews
There are a lot of different sects and sub groups within orthodoxy and some of them are quite annoying, this post came out of the idea I had to write about whether Messianic (Yechi) chabadnicks or Nannach Bresslovers were more…
The best and funniest video describing Shadchanim
I have been saying the same thing for years, I just don’t know how to make videos – this is the best video describing the shidduch process via shadchan ever!!!
How do fat people have sex?
Amidst the realization that by not checking my Facebook inbox due to the inordinate amounts of spam I get, I was missing a lot of good links and material, I announced to the world that if they wanted me to…
Bais Yaakov expels 9 girls for using non-kosher cell phones
BJJ is known as the top seminary, what this means is beyond me, but in the frum world, girls who go to the top seminaries get the top shidduchim. I always found seminary to be a little hypocritical considering the…
May you be zoche to build a bayis ne’eman b’yisroel together
Just me ranting at my brothers vort…
Hot horny rabbis – rabbis gone wild
This is one of those videos you stumble upon during late night you tube video searches when you’re half asleep, I laughed hysterically at the stupidity of it, but still it was stupid funny and I liked it.
Orthodox shul is going to allow women to lead kabalas shabbos
So Avi Weiss can’t get the go ahead to ordain women as Rabbis (would he call them Rabbits to be that much more Zionist?), but apparently they are cool with him letting them lead kabalas shabbos and I’m down with…
The Jews got the torah but the Arabs got the oil
Constipation caused the shidduch crisis
Chuppah boners, shtetl sex and more
For some reason I won’t allow myself to merely write little tidbits that have entered my mind at one time or another, because I usually find them too short to write as a full post. Recently I looked at my…
Stuff I like about Israel
Benji Lovitt is one of my favorite Israeli Bloggers. Every year on Yom Haatzmaut he writes a long post titled things he likes about Israel and they are numbered for the birthday of Israel. This year Israel turns 62. I…
Stuff Israeli Sephardim like
I know nothing about Sephardic Israelis. Luckily, someone sent this post to me via email. She wished to remain anonymous and since I really don’t know if it’s accurate I will let you folks decide. This is coming from a…
Stuff Secular Jews Like
I am not a secular Jew so undoubtedly this post was flawed from the start. I have many secular and non-religious Jewish friends and family. As the series of Stuff Jewish People like moves down the line, I am randomly…
Stuff Yeshivish People Like
There are lots of things that Yeshivish folks like and don’t like. I suppose the goal of this series will be to pick some random isn’t that isn’t so obvious. Don’t worry folks, this is the first of many posts…
Video from my sunday night show in LA
I am totally impress with this 8 minute snapshot of a show I did at the shul on the beach in Venice, CA on Sunday night – I know I made em laugh, but seriously I pulled alot of this…
Why I love being an orthodox Jew
Once in a while I get a comment that asks me why I poke fun at orthodox Jews and Judaism when I can just leave the fold. Obviously these people don’t get me and are way too serious to be…