I think the Duck Dynasty fiasco scares me so much because I agree wholeheartedly with both sides. As a religious person who follows an ancient, antiquated document that didn’t really keep up with the times (bigotry, idol worship, slavery, child…
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The 20 things that frum people are most afraid of
If you’re frum, there’s a pretty good chance that you live in a constant fear of many things. I was consistently taught to be afraid of the goyim, because secretly they want to repeat what the Nazis did to us.…
Chanukah is about our defeat over the Liberals
Isn’t it interesting that Chanukah is one of the major Jewish holiday’s in the secular Jewish world, yet the holiday itself is the celebration of our defeat of liberalism and assimilation? We can pretty easily compare the Hellenistic Jews to…
Why Yeshiva University is more dangerous than YCT and open orthodoxy
We can hem and haw all day about Open Orthodoxy and it’s threat to Judaism, but in reality, no truly frum person holds of YCT, Maharat, Avi Weiss, or any of the other shenanigans that cling to the open orthodoxy…
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…
Gun Control and Orthodox Woman Rabbis: Both slippery slopes
Gun control is one of the few debates that are not even worth having, chances are that you’ve made up your mind based on your own little file full of statistics, studies, and facts to support whatever side you’re on.…
Offensive bumper stickers: Unless you agree with them
Thanks to David for sending me this picture from The Gothamist. I guess I don’t find it offensive, because most of the frum folks I know agree wholeheartedly with every bumper sticker on this car, I’m just not sure they…
Boycott Michael Savage
It was only time until one of Orthodox Judaisms biggest supporters would be turned into a whining anti-Orthodox liberal. As I listened to Savage the other night, I checked repeatedly to make sure I wasn’t tuned into NPR (you have…
Why Baal Teshuvas are bad for the frum community
I already know this post is going to disliked by some of you, but I hope that some of you will be open minded enough to read through it and understand that this is not against the entire Baal teshuva…
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…
We must stop Tav Hayosher and its evil left wing agenda!
It doesn’t take a genius to see the evil doings of leftist, supposedly orthodox Jews. They try to twist Torah and Halacha to support their mostly liberal agendas and rarely do anything to benefit the Torah observant community. Tav Hayosher…
Typical Jewish Liberal apartment advertisement in San Francisco
I’m a member if this Bay Area Jewish list serve that sends me ads a few times a day and most often they are seeking roommates or apartments. It just so happens to be that many of them are quite…
Obama is now officially pro-gay marriage – RIP America!
The following is a not a joke, some people actually think this…. I have said before and I’ll say it again, this country is going straight down into the toilet. We have tried to legalize every illegitimate lifestyle under the sun that…
Bay Area Orthodox Jews are definitely not mainstream
It’s not uncommon that I’m the only FFB at the table. It’s also not uncommon when I try and explain that Bay Area Judaism is unlike that of anywhere else. The orthodoxy is not mainstream by most anyone’s standards and…
Occupy Wall Street Comedy
I decided to venture down to the Occupy San Francisco encampment last week just for shits and giggles and it was just a bunch of homeless peeps, hippies and people who could afford not to work chilling out. It was…
Liberal Jews say you must use an organic lulav and etrog
Irreligious liberal Jews are up in arms over the fact that most of the arba minim being used for succos are not grown organically or sustainably, they are a plight upon the land and doing a mitzvah with something that…
Do you go to whole foods?
I don’t shop at whole foods, or whole paycheck as many folks call it, unless I happen to be in an area outside of the amazing goodness that is Northern California and need to find good produce and hard to…
Can you imagine if frummies were liberal?
If frummies ever decided to be liberals we would all be in trouble, not only would they hold by unnecessary stringencies when it came to Judaism, they may also start to try and control the communities life in other ways.…
Liberal Bashing at the shabbos table
I was recently off in the central time zone for a weekend somewhere and when it came to light that I was living in Northern California, the conversation turned to bashing liberals. I haven’t been at a meal where the…
San Francisco Brit Milah Ban
Babies in San Francisco are up in arms over the proposed brit milah ban there, many babies have voiced concern over not having the fulfillment of involuntary therapy that may reduce their risk of AIDS, but definitely reduces their shake…
Legalizing marijuana will cause car accidents
George Soros has decided to focus some of his attention on legalizing Marijuana and kudos to him, of course the commentaters on Vos Iz Neias are convinced that this another evil plot to take over America make them vote left…
The ladies almost dropped the Torah this Shabbos
I sat in shul bored out of my mind. I only learned later that I had missed Parshas Noach. It’s a great parshah to think about sex posts in shul, to think about how I could push people’s buttons by…
Why doesn’t the frum community care about the environment?
I was in Berkeley for shabbos and the scholar in residence was this Rabbi who tries to spread the “Jews should save the environment” gospel, which I’m a bit iffy on. I wondered what the point of having a Jewish…
Frummies!!!
The joy at seeing a family of 13 walking down the block with 4 kids dressed in exactly the same outfit elicits such a smile from me you may think I was on crack. The nachas I shepped as I…
What do Chabad, secular Jews and settlers all have in common?
Guest Post By Elad Nehorai Chabad! How many of you just had some visceral reaction to that word?