I didn’t know from this Chinese Food Christmas minhag until I first met non-religious Jews. All I can remember from the Christmas of my youth is asking our doorman if we could take candy canes off of our lobbies tree,…
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The Nut List
By Charles Zucker Anyone who believes less than me is a heathen. Anyone who believes more than me is a nut. I’m a patchwork Jew. I’m a collection of memes and tropes and minhagim. I’ve clearly gotten more religious over…
Minhagim Busters discovers that you do gain weight on shabbos!
The folks from minhagim busters have just confirmed, after a long grueling process, that frum Jews do gain weight on shabbos. It’s a common held theory that frum Jews get an extra soul on shabbos and therefore they can eat…
Why I don’t shake hands with the opposite sex
I received this in one of the many spam emails I get from any number of friends of mine who run shuls and chabad houses, once in a very rare while do I open them. I liked this one and…
Kol Koreh against flying – it’s not mentioned in any seforim
From YWN: I, along with many prominent and well-known askonim, am currently circulating a kol koreh among many rabbonim, gedolim, and roshei yeshiva to decry not only Spirit Airlines, but the practice of flying in general. It is a known…
How do you shake your lulav?
So there you are standing in shull about to shake your lulav and boom you notice the guy in front of you shaking it a different way then you tend to shake, sizing him up quickly with his gray beard…