We received our first invitation to a seder just before purim, normally I say yes, excited that someone actually wanted me at their seder and not the last minute desperate attempt to latch onto everyone’s already booked seders. However, this…
Tag: passover
10 craziest kosher for Passover products
I was schooled last night by my wife who told me that makeup and cosmetics have to be kosher for pesach, whether or not this is the halacha or the social halacha determined by kashrus organizations wishing to scare everyone…
Kitnyot may be ridiculous, but you don’t meet many people who break the minhag
Everybody suddenly loves Quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa sucks and I’m sure most of you would agree, if it didn’t suck you’d have people eating it as is, like they do with rice, but instead quinoa is usually dressed up with all sorts of things to mask…
What does Pesach have to do with coming out of the closet?
I just got this in the mail and it actually makes sense that coming out of the closet is the LGBTQA (whatever happened to just LGBT, it’s getting too long to roll off your tongue) persons personal exodus. I’m sure…
Get a matzo case for your iPhone
I haven’t really gone on an anti-smart phone rant in some time and that’s a good thing, because just last week I became the last person in the first world to get a phone with a camera and internet. I…
What Jon Stewart Fails to Understand
by Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel, San Francisco, CA Reprinted from Rabbi Strulowitz’s Blog at www.adathisraelsf.org Last week Jon Stewart ran a segment on “The Daily Show” that got a lot of buzz, and a large number of Facebook…
Matzo available at McDonalds
Hat Tip to Dov Bear for finding this gem of a letter.
Passover 2012: A Personal Encounter with the Rasha
Immediately before we begin the Yom Kippur Eve Kol Nidrei prayer, a short paragraph is recited by the chazzan that ends with the following: “anu matirin l’hispallel im ha’arvanim” — “we sanction prayer with the transgressors”
Stuff people say on Pesach
The never ending meme…
OU finally bans quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa has finally been banned to eat on Pesach, ending a debate that has lasted years and any need for vague statements on the grain that supposedly isn’t really a grain. It wasn’t expected that everyone in the OU would…
I just had chometz
Now I have the song stuck in my head again, but it never gets old – another parody of I just had sex – this one awesome as well!
Passover 2011
More important than knowing where someone is, is to know from where they come; this allows one to better gauge the person’s current position as a function of where he or she began and where he or she intends to…
The best pesach videos
There are some very good pesach videos out there, here are a few of my faves. Guy discovers he’s not really sepahrdic and his Rosh tells him no kitnyot this pesach:
The dumbest passover product of the year
Each year around this time, inventive frum Jews try to see which ways they can scam a few of us by selling us ridiculous products for Pesach, everyone also wants to see how much frummer they can be about pesach…
Some pesach thoughts
Being a single guy I really don’t have to do much for Pesach, I spent a couple of hours cleaning my car, purchased a flight to Colorado for the last days and figured out where I would for the sedarim…
Pesach poetry that rocks
My friend Eliezer P. sent this over and I’m really down with it. Passover arrives, ushering in the spring solstice, We retell our affirmation of The Pact; our true Locus, Snow, now thawed, we are – in body – liberated…
Why is this night different from all other nights?
I always found the questions we’re supposed to ask on Pesach kind of annoying. Would children really ask all of those same old questions year after year if they weren’t taught to ask them in school? Would they really say…
Passover Price Gouging
I told you how my family and I don’t use many processed foods for Passover, thus avoiding many of the ugly price-fixing that goes on during the holiday. But some things, you just can’t buy — unless, of course, you…
My first days of pesach were awesome
My nose was filled with sweet cologne as two men sat in back of me, I could smell them as soon as the door to sanctuary swung open, before they proceeded to sit down and insult my nose with their…
Why is it so hard to find kosher for passover matza?
I was trying to find kosher for passover matzah last year in Denver and all of the grocery stores were out, this year I was mountain biking in Santa Cruz the Sunday before Pesach so I decided I would visit…
I love Pesach
I absolutely love long Jewish holidays like Pesach. I know that many folks can’t wait for it to be over, whenever someone says that on shabbos I want to smack them, you can’t talk about such holiness like shabbos and…
Rules for New Yorkers visiting Miami for pesach
By Zalmy Fny Silver I am not a fan of writing words in caps – but I didn’t feel like editing the whole thing… 1- You CAN, I repeat, CAN make a FREAKING RIGHT TURN ON RED!! The only place…
Selling your chometz seems like such a sham
I sold my chometz last year on erev pesach, via an online form from Chabad, I think it’s BS but it sure made me feel like I still had all of my energy bars, trail mix and granola to look…
Messing with BT’s on Pesach
Messing with BT’s has been a Frum Satire tradition for several years now. It doesn’t get old, because you can really have a messing with BT’s post for every holiday, Jewish event or regular daily life, I even had one…