By The Mrs. If there’s anything I’ve learned from flipping back and forth between coasts, it’s that the local Judaica shop is a good reflection of what kind of Jews you’ll find there. I’m not just talking about the comparison…
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Girls twerking on a yeshivish guy
One of my FB friends wrote the following: 2 weeks ago I was in San Francisco on business. After work hours I rented a gokart and started touring the city. At a certain point, I got stuck on a large…
I heard you found kosher cheese at…
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw large bags of kosher and cholov yisroel cheese at Smart and Final last week, I myself am not a fan of shredded mozzarella or cheddar, but I knew plenty of people who…
Typical Jewish Liberal apartment advertisement in San Francisco
I’m a member if this Bay Area Jewish list serve that sends me ads a few times a day and most often they are seeking roommates or apartments. It just so happens to be that many of them are quite…
There aren’t enough frummies in the Bay Area
I miss those families that have erev shabbos kugel, I find this kind of weird because I’ve never really missed frummies before, but I guess human nature is that we miss the things we don’t have. To say that San…
Bay Area Orthodox Jews are definitely not mainstream
It’s not uncommon that I’m the only FFB at the table. It’s also not uncommon when I try and explain that Bay Area Judaism is unlike that of anywhere else. The orthodoxy is not mainstream by most anyone’s standards and…
Frummy spotted at San Francisco egalitarian minyan
I noticed that the supposed mens section side of the tri-chitza (triple section mechitza) was kind of mixed so I sat in the back next to some ragged looking fellow with a scraggly beard, puffy winter coat and a knitted…
Keeping kosher style is a good thing
This picture was taken in the kitchen of Shar Zahav, the LGBTQ (gay) reform shul in San Francisco. Now before you start having a heart attack over this, think for a second as to how frum the Reform community…
Shofar Flash mob in San Francisco
I still haven’t exactly figured out what a flash mob is, a bunch of people around the world doing something in public at the same time – so is every person in the world riding a bike or walking down…
How to Spot FFB’s
In the Bay Area I am constantly the only FFB (frum from birth) person at meals and other Jewish events I go to. So in my search for FFB’s I have developed several techniques to spotting and weeding out the…
Liberal Bashing at the shabbos table
I was recently off in the central time zone for a weekend somewhere and when it came to light that I was living in Northern California, the conversation turned to bashing liberals. I haven’t been at a meal where the…
One of the most amazing murals I’ve ever seen
Yesterday at about 11am I get a call from my good friend Matthue Roth telling me he has a layover in San Francisco, so off to the airport I go and we just take a nice walk up and down…
Frum Satire show in San Francisco Motzoi Shabbos/Christmas
I know it’s a bit short notice and I know a lot of people will be away, but for those of you that are here and have nothing to do on Motzoi Shabbos/Christmas in the Bay Area I will be…
San Francisco Brit Milah Ban
Babies in San Francisco are up in arms over the proposed brit milah ban there, many babies have voiced concern over not having the fulfillment of involuntary therapy that may reduce their risk of AIDS, but definitely reduces their shake…
I can live here
I can’t live here, I remember thinking of Dallas, this thought was solely based on aesthetics, things were too new, too fresh, the paint hadn’t dried on the latest tract home and another cul de sac was already being paved…
Orthodox Gays struggling to establish community in Israel
The biggest challenge in my mind to the Frum Gay community which is just in its beginnings is trying to introduce itself into mainstream orthodoxy, this is toughest because you can never hope or imagine to change the halacha, because…
Are you a coffee snob?
On the east coast we call them coffee snobs, those people that think Starbucks is purposefully burnt so people will flavor their coffee with vanilla and hazelnut syrups that are just sugar and chemicals, those people who make fun of…
The little Jewish community that could
I can’t believe everyone’s so young, it seems like the last time I was here everyone was much older, had that many members died since Rosh Hashanah? I’m wondering this and I approach the Rabbi to ask him where all…
One of the more interesting Rosh Hashanah’s
Several months ago a friend of mine called me up and asked if I could hook him up with a place for Rosh Hashanah in San Francisco that was open with the idea of him leaving after yuntiff (yom tov)…
I went to the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco
The yetzer harah didn’t let me get up for shacharis like I had planned, but he couldn’t stop me from attending the San Francisco gay pride parade no matter how many times he told me to hit the snooze button.…
I attended my first anti-Israel protest in San Francisco
Bay Area Orthodox Jews are ahead of their time
One of the first things I was told when I moved to the Bay Area was that the Jewish community was way ahead of its time. The first interesting thing I noticed was that the Berkley Chabad and the left…
Shabbos with the Motorcycle Rabbi
I think it was the first time in my life that I heard the following from a Rabbi with a long white beard: “You can go to shul if you’d like, but I need to get some sleep before the…
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…
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…