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Dvar Torah Tazria: Anatomy, Physiology and Rabbis
How fortuitous it is that I can use last week’s lengthy disagreement with Yoreh K’chetz as a springboard for this week’s Dvar Torah. Last week, Yoreh K’chetz (henceforth abbreviated YK) accused me of possessing a “mind [that] is too limited…
Yeshiva Hashkafa Lessons
Guest Post By Offthedwannab This post is going to seem strange for the uninitiated, so let me give a short introduction. To the typical outsider, Yeshivos must seem like Christian Seminaries. You go there to learn theology, to pray, and…
I went to the frum gay shabbaton and loved it
By Anonymous “A whole Shabbos without fearing a mob of Charedim was going to beat me? I never thought that would happen!” So said one of the more than 100 participants who joined Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Rabbi Paysach Krohns, and…
Who was the MLK of the Jewish world?
I know I’m a day late, but this question was posed on my FB page right before I went to work and 47 comments of bickering and fighting about whether or not Rav Meir Kahane deserves this title along with…
Non-Orthodox Jews guide to Orthodoxy
Forgive me because I forgot who sent it to me, but someone sent me the cover of Rabbi David Baum’s book the Non-Orthodox Jews’ Guide to Orthodoxy and I was struck by how frum the couple who was supposed to…
Bans are like Terror Alerts – no one really cares
I remember the days right after 9-11, I was honestly excited that the world was going to come to an end or be forever changed, unfortunately the only thing that proceeded 9-11 was high gun sales and even higher gas…
Brief history of mechitza’s
Mechitza literally means to divide, but did you know there is no where in the Torah where it says that men and women cannot pray together, in fact, many more modern families these days will even say Kiddush and certain…
It’s better to die than shake a woman’s hand
So some Rabbi last week in Israel ruled that you can shake a woman’s hand for business purposes or so you shouldn’t embarrass her and what do you think happened, a bunch of rabbis came out against this guy and…
How do fat people have sex?
Amidst the realization that by not checking my Facebook inbox due to the inordinate amounts of spam I get, I was missing a lot of good links and material, I announced to the world that if they wanted me to…
How to keep your kids on the derech
Yasher Koach to Off The D for finding this one and giving me the idea to formulate some responses to the following article by Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz (who I had the pleasure to meet and complimented me for my work…
Guide to Modern Orthodox and YU Kiruv
Part 2 in the 3 part guest post series on the 3 major factions of Kiruv Part 2: Yeshiva University/Modern Orthodox Kiruv I just want to reiterate the purpose of these postings (click to see the one for yeshivish kiruv).…
Guide to Yeshivish Kiruv
Guest post by Kiruv Krises – this will be a 3 part series, not funny, but very informative. As someone who’s been reading Frum Satire for many years, I always find Heshy’s stuff interesting and provocative. Reading Heshy’s analysis of…
Hot horny rabbis – rabbis gone wild
This is one of those videos you stumble upon during late night you tube video searches when you’re half asleep, I laughed hysterically at the stupidity of it, but still it was stupid funny and I liked it.
Attention: Please don’t ask Niddah questions at the table
So I’m sitting at this Rabbis table one week and he’s got some guests and all of kids are sitting at the table and he busts out this Niddah question that almost made me spit my food out. Guy who…
Reform Rabbi admits he’s not Jewish
In a shocking blow to the reform movement, a rabbi has come out of the closet and admitted that he’s not actually Jewish. Rabbi Christopher Kennedy stated in his sermon this past Saturday that although he feels Jewish, he really…
Television: A cry of anguish and appeal to out Jewish Brethren
We Jews have been designated by G-d to be a “kingdom of priests, a holy nation.” Unfortunately, however, in the two thousand years of our Diaspora, the nobility of the Jewish character has suffered from considerable onslaught. In recent times,…
Proposition 8 Overturned – Orthodox Jews blame the gays
Ultra Orthodox groups were quick to blame the gays for the overturning of proposition 8, let us remember that this is nothing new. Orthodox Jews were quick to blame recent events such as Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill and…
Newsweek’s Most Influential Rabbis
I love America. G-d bless America. It’s the only country I know that does not have a chief rabbi, thanks to a very divided Jewish community, and a government that is constitutionally barred from appointing religious leaders. Fortunately, elements of…
1996 meeting on the dangers of the internet
1996 Asifa on the World Wide Web: Our children are in grave danger, there is a monster lurking behind a screen and we must put a stop to this fad before we lose more neshamas. Rabosai, our children have fallen…
Sara Hurwitz speaks out and my thoughts of Jewish feminists
Sara Hurwitz and Jewish feminism bugs me a bit: If she is all about keeping the tradition why go and screw with it? Any shmo can be a rabbi, does it really effect how you can give advice if you…
Monsey Rabbi tells us why women can’t rabbis – it’s got nothing to do with halacha
It has been learned that the recent uproar within orthodoxy over Rabbi Avi Weiss’s decision to make the world’s first orthodox woman rabbi has no halachic basis whatsoever. Speaking on anonymity, a very knowledgeable and learned rabbi from Monsey told…
Lipa Schmeltzer concert causes Haiti Earthquake
Until the recent press release from Rabbi Yehuda Levin announcing that the gays were the cause of the Haiti Earthquake, no one had heard of him or his organization the Rabbinical Alliance of America. In response to RAA and Agudath…
Presenting Rabbi Yehuda Levin
Rabbi Yehuda Levin made this video to get attention and it’s working, it is also a huge Chillul Hashem. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is not the first to claim that homosexuality has lead God to destroy random innocent people. Some of…
Kabbalists gather to produce sequel to the Exorcist
In a bid to produce a sequel to the Exorcist, noted kabbalists gathered in Israel this week to see if they could get a dybbuk out of a man, who had supposedly been possessed while vacationing in South America. The…