I remember when you could judge someone’s entire family over whether or not they had a TV in the home. It used to be that TV was the most important singular factor in what yeshiva, seminary, summer camp, or shul…
Tag: movies
Propaganda or just plain old cool?
I say both (everything we say, do and create has some bias) and I hope there’s a movie, because the music rocks! Hat Tip Matthue Roth
The real reason why movies are assur
I was joking tonight with a friend of mine who lives in a small town and will be hosting a girl he’s shidduch dating for about a week and about how the Rabbi wouldn’t be so into him going to…
Personal mechitzas marketed to Charedim struggling with mile high club fantasies
Last week there was some news about a company in Israel marketing personal mechitzas for Charedim traveling on planes that don’t want to watch movies or wrestle with some immodestly dressed seat mate for the arm rest and I think…
The Na’vi Makes a Prophecy: Judaism in Avatar
By Sergey Kadinsky As the first month of 2010 approaches its end, the bar for epic films this year has been set high by Avatar, the outer space science fiction flick directed by James Cameron. On the face of it,…
Hasid for a Day
A few weeks ago, Matthue Roth got a gig on the set of the TV show “The Good Wife” as an extra. 1. I’ve protested so frequently about the portrayal of Hasidic Jews in movies and TV — not to…
Yankees Win 2009 World Series
I don’t really care if they do or don’t, but the noise from across the street from my buddies house was keeping me up and I realized that a whole lot of you probably care or as Michael Moore likes…
Yeshivish movies
There are many yeshivish things, potato chips, cars and yarmulkes can all be yeshivish, but movies are never really thought of as yeshivish. Fact is that any yeshivish school worth its weight in shidduchim will throw you out and force…
Finding the right shul on Tisha B’av
Finding the right shul to go for Tisha B’av can make your fast an easy and memorable one, while winding up at the wrong shul may arguably be the best way to remember how much we suffered at the hands…
Jewno: Hilarious Jewish version of the movie Juno
All of secular Jewish culture packed into one video – its not that hard, besides for Lawyers, bagels and cheap Jews what else is there? Its actually very good.
Loving Leah movie review
My roommate was just watching this Hallmark special movie entitled Loving Leah that was just on CBS, the basic story is that Leah is married to Benjamin, Benjamin dies so Leah decides to do chalitzah and marry her brother in…
Ever get your tzitzis stuck in your fly?
There is a famous scene in the movie “There is Something About Marry” when Be Stiller is a kid and gets his penis stuck in his fly, how this is possible is beyond me, I think it may been implying…
Is public school really like they portray it in the movies?
Due to the fact I never went to public school I have a warped perspective of what its really like. Like most folks who went to yeshiva high school, our visions of what its like to attend public school are…
Israeli film “The Secrets” portrays lesbian love in seminary
If you knew how many people a day came to my site by searching any of a wide variety of frum or chassidic combined with the words porn, sex, gay, lesbian, horny, etc… it would be quite shocking. In fact…