Dear Heshy, I loved your post yesterday about positive changes within the frum community. I find myself wondering why no one seems to focus on the positive changes that have taken place in frum society amidst all of the negativity.…
Tag: letters to the editor
How do we shield our son from the hypocrisy in his yeshiva?
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…
Dear Heshy: Do you think that Facebook is worse than porn?
Hey Hesh, I was at a singles meal in the Heights this past shabbos and a debate ensued about whether facebook or porn was worse for your neshama. Porn is almost always a solo event, but Facebook takes others down…
RE: Avrohom Meir Weiss
To the author of this blog, I have never read your blog before, but I wonder if you realize the grave sin of loshon horah and motzi shem rah that you have violated by slandering a talmud chacham with such…
Dear Heshy: Can one actually be frum if they live out of town?
Dear Heshy, I know that you live out of town and consider yourself frum, so I hope that you and your out of town readers don’t take this the wrong way, but I always felt that those folks who moved…
Letter to the editor: Why make fun of yeshivish people so much
Hi, I happen to run across your blog in doing a search for Pomegranate Supermarket. I read a few of your posts and I have to wonder, why all the negativity about yeshivish people? Many yeshivish bochurim and men (my…
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…
Dear Heshy: Hating on BT’s will not solve any problems
Dear Heshy, I follow you on facebook fairly regularly and noticed your post on what you hate about baalei teshuva. Now before all of your fans jump me for being offended by something you wrote, I read your site and…
Dear Heshy: Why don’t you support Israel?
Apparently it wasn’t just the folks in the comments who took my very sarcastic comment about Israel seriously. Check out this email I received yesterday from a reader that really disturbs me, because if people took such an obvious joke…
I’m fond of chabad on my campus, have I been brainwashed?
If you wish to send letters to the editor please email them to me at [email protected] – they can be published with any name you wish. “I am a relatively long time admirer of your blog and I really enjoy…
Tikkun Olam is not Jewish Value
Hey Hesh, Huge fan here and I have a question that’s been bothering me ever since I started reading your blog. I’m sure that if anyone can answer the following question you can. I’ve noticed that Orthodox Jews tend to…
Anti-segregationists target synagogues
Dear Heshy, I write to you from Israel – this is my view as a religious person who is deeply disturbed by the growing anti-Haredi movements among those Israeli’s who do not understand what we are for. It wasn’t enough…
You know you’re a BT in seminary when…
I love flattery, especially when it comes from seminary girls who spend their days learning how to be good balebustah’s and their nights reminiscing over cheeseburgers and the days before shomer negiah. Heshy, You may or may not know, but…
RE: Are there any hot girls reading this?
Dear Heshy, I read your blog regularly and I just wanted to ask you a question concerning the supposedly shallow post about your friends looking to date attractive girls. I’m in my late 20’s and I feel that I’m about…
Sort of off the derech and looking for a shidduch
Sometime ago I posted about how I would love to set up folks who were off the derech, but looking for someone who is culturally frum. I have received quite a few emails from people wishing for me to set…
Rachel’s hot letters.
I love reading Rachel’s hot letters on the Jewish Press. It turns me on like the fridge light after havdalah. Take this letter from a few weeks ago, about the crisis in our communities — crisis — that means tension and yes,…
How do I tell a shadchan I want a girl with a huge rack?
This may be one of the funniest shidduch advice questions I have ever received, I find it even funnier because the guy sending it is on the yeshivish side and has probably not had much experience with his subject other…
Dear Heshy: Why are frum Jews so unhealthy?
Dear Heshy, I am sure you can relate to this, as you and I are both very physically active and health conscious. I have been bothered for years by the lack of healthy eating and physical activity of the frum…
Letter to the editor: I am not Jewish but my boyfriend is orthodox
This was sent to me via email and she gave me permission to post it: So I watch all your videos on youtube and I love them, you are quite the comedian. I need your opinion on something because I…
Letter to the editor: We live in NJ but the Jews are so boring and materialistic
Reading your blogs has given me confidence that you may be able to help in our logistical dilemma of where the hell we are supposed to be normal frum Jews amongst communities filled with such difficult, boring and materialistic people.…
Letter to the editor: Judaism is too strict
One thing that bothers me about modern Judaism is the continuous shift to the strict and serious. When my father was a kid and when I was a kid you checked the ingredients and then ate it. People would eat…
Letters to the editor: shomer negiah
Every once in a while I publish hate mail I receive, but rarely do I publish the fan mail – which thank the Lord beats out the hate mail by at least 20 to 1. I kind of feel like…