I get asked by a lot of folks if there’s a tried and true way to tell if their chabad shaliach or rabbi is a meshichist, unlike most snags (misnagdim) I’m not one who thinks (or believes) that all of…
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Tzfatim, Tzfatim and more Tzfatim
This post continues my letter to a disenchanted Litvak and describes the many different possible Mishechist options. I debated including these in my letter to you, Reb Yid, but judging from the customs you described in your letter and the…
Chesed Week: Help build the Crown Heights eruv
Crown Heights is one of the last major frum communities to not have a wall built around it so people can carry on shabbos, it’s a shame too, because with the amount of beautiful single girls running around, I’m sure…
Yechi Adoneinu – African Style!
As much as I hate the yechi folks, I love the yechi song and whenever I go to 770 I can’t get it out of my head for days.
I spent last Shabbos in Boynton Beach Florida
One of the things I hate about doing shabbos in random places is not being able to get to shul. So when I found out that Boynton Beach, Florida, where my girlfriend’s grandmother lives, had a Chabad I was pretty…
Matisyahu Hater: Decoded!
By Simcha Levenberg One month ago Matisyahu released Light. The album is out there in the ether garnering praise and getting radio play. Personally, I love Matisyahu. I like him and his music. I think he’s the best thing that…
Gefilte fish made me frum
By Samuel Pilkinton I started becoming religious about 3 years ago. It started when I went into a bookstore and picked up a book called “The Rebbe’s Army”. After reading that book, I couldn’t wait to get in touch with…
My first Lubavitcher
Guest post by Jeremy Shadow Despite currently being a neo-pagan, I was born and raised a Conservative Jew in South Orange New Jersey. South Orange is a friendly little community somewhat close to Newark. After the Newark Riots, when Jews…
Ten questions a chabad shliach could ask Jewish rednecks
By Samuel Pilkinton So, I’ve been officially engaged for 2 weeks now. Mazel tov to me right?!?! I could not possibly be happier. Our parents are ecstatic; we couldn’t have more support from friends. But next month is our first…
My first two days in Israel
I landed in Israel and just told the sharoot guy to let me off at the shuk, I had rugalechs and shawarma on my mind, I hadn’t eaten a real meal save for the airplane food in 3 days and…
What’s the deal with those annoying Breslov book guys?
If you have ever eaten in a fast food restaurant in the New York Metro area you have encountered those annoying Breslov guys that give you stacks of little white books from finding a soulmate (they give those when your…
What did you do for Purim?
Last years Purim kind of sucked because it was on a Friday, I spent it at my cousins in Monsey and as usual it was fun but not as fun as my yeshiva days, in fact Purim just hasn’t been…
Lubavitchers have their own way of playing Jewish geography
Lubavitchers have a completely different set of rules when it comes to Jewish geography then the rest of the Jewish community does. This is simply because they are everywhere and everyone is related to someone, which makes Lubavitcher Jewish geography…
Chabad vs. Misnagdim comedy video
You must understand that this was done in good fun, I am a Lubavitcher and Snag rolled into one. It was fun and like always the groups I made of enjoyed it.
Video of the Crown Heights Simchas Bais Hashoeva
This is the only video I could really put up but it pretty much shows what goes on- a happy time of dancing and chilling, mostly. This was just a random video and like most frummies Lubavitchers do not like…
Hoshana Rabba Hilarity
We shake our lulavs for 7 days straight and then we bang our hoshanas for 3 seconds. I thought of that while I was banging my hoshanos this morning and thought it to be pretty damn sexual, that the climax…
I would rather stomachs poking me then lulavs
A protruding stomach covered in the smooth material of a bekishe bumped into me, and begged me to push the line a long. The Rabbi announced that everyone should push the tables against the bima so that people could make…
Are Jews disproportionately good at business?
Rabbi Levi Brack man seems to think so and he even wrote a book about it. Luckily for him, I went to his house in Evergreen Colorado last year for the second days of Pesach and since the food was…
Should there be a dress code at the Kotel?
So I snapped the following picture at the kotel and it made a ruckus on my Facebook album of Israel pictures (I intend to make a flickr account one of these days) the picture was meant to show a dude…