Dear Heshy, We send out son to one of the finest out of town yeshivas, but recently I’ve learned that he’s being exposed to something which we cannot really understand. Once a month, the local community hosts boys for different…
Tag: kollel
Kollel is not BS
Heshy, I know you’re going to spear me like Pinchas for saying this, but I also know that my points in this letter may be novel enough to make it onto your blog. I know you’re generally a good hearted…
Dear R’ Heshy: Is it muttar to lie to get into government programs?
Dear R’ Heshy, Seeing as how you have such a learned, balanced and thoughtful outlook on life, and seeing as how your readership has the same; I am coming back to you with another shaila which has bothered me since…
The latest trend in frum divorces
I think the title may be misleading so let me clarify, the latest trend in my friends who are getting divorce and it’s not the trend of late. Most of my friends who have gotten divorced, have done so due…
Bonfire of the Frumities
Seems like every community I’ve lived in suffers the same problem every year at Lag B’omer — who really owns the holiday? Chabad or the Community Kollel? It’s fair to say that Chabad got there first. They’ve been doing these…
Kollel guys on the hunt for jobs
Kollel guys at the Telz Yeshiva of Lancaster, PA are facing the harsh reality that in tough economic times, sometimes you actually have to work for a living. For many years, they were able to squeak by having their wife or their…
Guide to Yeshivish Kiruv
Guest post by Kiruv Krises – this will be a 3 part series, not funny, but very informative. As someone who’s been reading Frum Satire for many years, I always find Heshy’s stuff interesting and provocative. Reading Heshy’s analysis of…
How to tell you have been in Kollel too long
We can probably argue about the pros and cons of the kollel system all day, I personally don’t mind the kollel system itself – its the people running the shidduchim system that says workers are bums but the working class…