Remember kids, the Shabbos Project is NOT about kiruv, the organizers said so themselves numerous times in their website. So please keep that in mind as you read these suggestions from Rabbi Klatzko on how to make sure your non-Orthodox…
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Kiruv industry used Malaysia flight in marketing campaign
If you read kiruv books you will notice some reoccurring themes. The most famous have to do with the complexity of citrus and how it couldn’t have been made by anyone but God, and those folks who missed their flights…
Chabad women will start asking other women to put on tefillin
One of the biggest complaints that the Orthodox Jewish world has against chabad is that they are too open minded with regards to the roles of women. No other group within ultra-orthodoxy (we can argue all day along about whether…
Put on tefillin
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Kiruv Rabbi comes up with 10 reasons kids go off the derech
Just like the shidduch crisis before, the OTD crisis is hitting the frum community pretty hard. There are seminars, chinuch round tables, asifas, and a lot of discussion behind the scenes amongst gedolim and rabonom as to how to fix…
10 personalities you find at your local Hillel
A Field Guide to the Vildechayas of Hillel Guest post By Chaim Leib Kleinman Hillel is the epicenter of collegiate Jewish life. Maybe it used to be the place to meet goys and eat treif, but things have changed. It’s…
The funniest kiruv speech ever made
Thanks to Rachmuna for posting this on my wall, it’s brilliant and it encapsulates the real problem that FFB’s have with BT’s. This problem is that after years and years of ritual we just can’t seem to get excited like…
Baal Teshuvas are a danger to the Orthodox community
I’ve said before, but I just read something so disturbing that I think I need to reiterate the fact that the BT movement is destroying our community from within. I’m not just talking about polluting the pure blood yichus and…
Thanks to Aish I now want to be a Mormon
Dear Heshy, I want you to post this, not only because it can be inspiring, but because I think it should send a thank you to Aish who was the cause of a lot of happiness and discovery over the…
Off The Derech Israel Tours
Just over a two years ago, Shalom and Micha decided to use their formerly religious mischief to battle the evil they saw perpetuated at the multiple missionary institutions in Jerusalem. Sharing a few victory beers after their first escapade, walking…
Stop trying to make Off The Derech people frum again
I’m not a big fan of kiruv, as many of you know, I believe that the FFB master race has become diluted with Baalei Teshuva and converts who inflict us with their secular culture. I also believe that those who…
Which yeshiva should I go to?
Hi Heshy, I just found your site (through the amazing post you did a while back on the politics of yarmulkes) and have enjoyed reading it. I admire how you try to find an amusing path through all the ideological…
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,…
What people really think of Baal Teshuvas
This meme, one of the first I’ve posted is very true.
Off the derech people are miserable
I don’t know anyone who’s happy and off the derech. If they were so happy, why would they keep having to tell us religious Jews how silly we are, couldn’t they just be happy with their decision and leave us…
Passover 2012: A Personal Encounter with the Rasha
Immediately before we begin the Yom Kippur Eve Kol Nidrei prayer, a short paragraph is recited by the chazzan that ends with the following: “anu matirin l’hispallel im ha’arvanim” — “we sanction prayer with the transgressors”
Can Kiruv rabbis use sex to mekarev someone?
They say that each generation goes lower in morality than the previous one and this is pretty blatant by the latest news of the chabad world. Apparently a Chabad shaliach in Russia is the latest to succumb to immorality by…
Santa puts on tefillin
I’m sure that most of you have seen the picture of Santa putting on tefllin, but since I keep getting emails about it I might as well post it. Is it just me or is Chabad willing to go where…
The flagship shul of the American Kiruv Industry
I was bored in shul this past Friday night, so I decided to do a statistical analysis of the people in attendance. I first counted out 120 men, then started breaking it down a bit more, I noticed very few…
The future of orthodox Judaism
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The Baal Teshuva’s guide to shidduch dating
As much as we kiruv industry professionals like to think we have prepared the baal teshuva for the real (frum) world we really haven’t. So while the girls know how to to dress according to tznius social norms, the guys…
Kiruv Skills
I was talking with a buddy of mine who works in the kiruv industry about the different set of skills you need to make it as kiruv rabbi in the bay area and we both agreed that it would be…
Heter Kiruv actually exists
I recently ate a someone’s house who’s involved in Kiruv, he couldn’t find a house in the eruv so he had to settle for one outside the eruv and in order for his wife to get to shul with their…
Should Baal Teshuvas learn the art of social orthodoxy?
A friend of mine is becoming frum and he recently mentioned that his rabbi told him to start pronouncing his words with a “suf” instead of the “tuf” he has been doing his entire life. I’m not sure whether I…
The thinking Jewish teenagers guide to life
I get bored in shul and to tell the truth I usually grab a stack of those artscroll propaganda biographies of various gedolei ha-previous dor. I can honestly say that no matter how trumped up the stories of famous Rabbis…