This past week, an upstanding member of the nebbishe community in Baltimore was ousted as a closet missionary. The nebbish community has been put on high alert as they fear retributions. Now the worldwide community made up of older single…
There are certian things I miss about the east coast, shoving matches at kiddush is one of them. In my shul, everyone waits for the Rabbi or whoever sponsored kiddush to make kiddush, I hate that. People are way too…
Being married has its advantages, laundry more than once a month, home cooked meals, and not having to get tested for STD’s every time my crotch starts feeling the fire, but one of the biggest disadvantages is that shul is…
Parve Cholent is a crime against humanity and I’m pretty sure that it’s one of the few things that a bulk of the frum community can agree on. As strange as it is, there are people who consider themselves frum…
Frum Feeding Frenzies by Chaya Miriam Fried Jews clearly have a something attached to their Jew Gene that makes them lose their minds whenever they see a table of food. I don’t think there’s any real mystery to how this…
I’m not sure popular the term JFK-Jew is but it means Just For Kiddush. For the record I have never been a Just for Kiddush kind of guy, unless you count the kavannah of having in mind that I’m only…
I just returned from a wonderful conference sponsored by Kiddush-Nazi International (also known as KNISH). They recently got together at a swanky resort in the Catskills to talk about the things that Kiddish-Nazis talk about — being mean and setting…
I think the only good thing that came out of my recent trip to Far Rockaway to visit the old man and fulfill my obligation to kivud av, was the kiddushim I got to take part in. Far Rockaway isn’t…
Every once in a while I actually remember my dreams, rarely do I have great ones, but this past Friday night I dreamed of kiddush. Not only did I dream of kiddush, I dreamed of the ideal yeshivish/hemishe/chassidish shteeble style…
When I first moved out here I didn’t mind the green kiddush much, some chips and salsa, veggie sticks, guacamole and several varieties of cookies seemed alright to me – but I’ve been here a year and this is one…
Once in a while I ask for post ideas on Facebook and someone actually has a good idea, rarely does this happen, it’s almost as if asking for ideas reinforces the belief that I actually have good ideas to write…
Kiddush can be a violent place, this is mostly because frum Jews have a minhag to forgo breakfast on Saturday mornings due to halachos about eating before davening and the general thought that milk and cereal is not shabbosdicke, but…
Kiddush is one of my favorite Jewish specific events, and it doesn’t happen often enough. Today’s uncertain economy has brought down the quality of kiddushim to the lowest I’ve seen in years. Today’s kiddushim are nothing like that of those…
I was armed with a fork, flimsy plastic plate and a strategy before the rest of the congregants even walked through the door. I had placed myself right between the two main bowls of food, one containing a basic green…
I love mechitzas, I really do, especially the kind that give you a small opportunity to check out the ladies, if you’re clever enough. I don’t like the really short one’s because they don’t provide a challenge and the ladies…
I was sitting in Adath Israel in San Francisco this past shabbos afternoon in their weekday shul and it came to me that they had the best benches I have ever sat on, it then came to me that I…
Typically when you walk out of shul for a break, you find the bulletin board and check if there’s a hot Kiddush, look through the door of the women’s section, check out the hot new designs and technology in the…
For the first time in moths I stayed in Far Rockaway for shabbos, I figure I live there so I don’t have to put myself through the agony of a shabbos in Far Rockaway. I say agony because the shuls…
I am sure I missed some, it seems I always do, but the following list seems to be pretty complete. Jews love food, and we love our cakes and cookies – we have them at kiddush, weddings, those yertzeits at…
Some folks express dismay that shuls aren’t as friendly as they could be, but I kind of expect shuls to be unfriendly places where people just go to daven, back in the day the shul was the center of Jewish…
The latest in WTF – Facebook clubs comes from the Germaphobes of Facebook in the form of anti “sharing the wine cup” on shabbos group which has been joined by 3 people including myself (I only joined so I could…
Kiddush Clubs Observe Siyum HaShots – sent to me by Yo Robbins on Facebook On Saturday morning in synagogues around the world, Kiddush club members celebrated the completion of a seven-and-a-half-month cycle of weekly drinking.
There I said it, it takes a real man to say that you know… Moscato Diasti is one of longest lasting fads in Orthodox Judaism, it is still very popular even years after it was first introduced to the frum…
I am in vulture mode, the carrion awaits, in this case the cholent, and I am extending my claws, in this case my fork and too small Styrofoam bowl, and suddenly I hit a glass wall that I didn’t see,…
I was honored to be published in the Jewish Press a couple of weeks ago, but I am even more honored that this weeks Jewish Press features a letter to the editor concerning my article. I am completely honored that…
