Sometimes people take my satire seriously, in fact, the following email is a rant from a BT who mistook my satirical piece about why BT’s are a danger to the frum community as a serious post and decided that she…
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I love when people take me seriously
I used to tag my posts as humor or satire, I stopped doing it in the name of satire, my life has been exponentially better since then. You see, I don’t really write for anyone but my self and a…
Shlugging Kapores
Last week I posted a list which included a pun that alluded to domestic violence. Comments from people who are machmir on humor during the month of Elul thought that domestic violence is not a good topic for satire. So…
Unconsummated Marriage
I found this woman’s blog a few weeks ago and it makes me feel pretty sad, but I understand her need to let people know they aren’t alone in the issue and her need to talk about her hurt and…
Making fun of frum gays is fair game – or so I thought
You may have noticed that I closed the comment for the post preceding this one and that’s because of the gays, yes finally I can be a real frummy and blame something on the gays, it’s not an earthquake or a tsunami, but…
Do you get the High Holiday blues?
I never really liked the high holidays, I love succos, but when it came to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I would always fall flat on face and wonder how I the ultimate sinner could approach the lord and ask…
Is communal pressure to marry too high?
An old friend of mine called me in tears the other night, he had just been to his best friends wedding and he couldn’t help but fear alone and like he was never going to get married. He asked me…
What if you found out your husband was gay?
Guest post by Frum N’ Flipping It’s got to be one of the worst fears of an Orthodox girl. How can you tell if the boy you are dating is not attracted to women. Religious men are told to keep…
Forget the shidduch crisis, what about the ridiculously short marriage crisis?
Not sure what’s going on but in the last year I have known over half a dozen people my age that have gotten divorced and a majority of them were married less than a year. I wouldn’t call it a…
Is the Torah outdated and irrelevant?
Blogger Israeli Mom made the following comment on the post about the Yeshiva University gay symposium. “The gay issue is one of those things that prove to me just how outdated and irrelevant the torah is as a text to…
9 Tisha B’av blog posts from around the web
Writing comedy on Tisha B’av is like eating prok for kiddush on Yom Kippor, well maybe not that bad – but it just doesn’t feel write. Well maybe I should say posting, because with all this free time I have…
Rarely am I so captivated by a speech
I don’t typically like speeches, hate may be a strong word, but I do space out or read something else. Tonight at the end of Maariv I picked up the Rav Shlomo Freifeld biography and couldn’t put it down, I…
RE: You may hate Obama – but this racism is uncalled for
Look I am not going to remove the video I posted because I think people should learn from their mistakes. Yes it is a Chillul Hashem, but allowing such stupidity to go unnoticed is a bigger disservice and Chillul Hashem…
I davened with a reform minyan and loved it!
The title is misleading, because technically there wasn’t a minyan, since there were only about 7 men and twice that in women. I spent this shabbos at the Isabella Freedman center in northwestern Connecticut, and had a lovely time, partially…
Why do people care how he died?
We all learned about the death of our friend Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal last week, what I can’t understand is why I keep getting emails and facebook messages asking me how he died?
Are folks who believe the Rebbe is the moshiach really Apikorsim?
I have always wondered about the Meshichists (messianic chabad movement that believes the Rebbe is the messiah) as many of us have. Chabad is infamous because of it and I have heard many people say outright that they wouldn’t have…
Making a case for Yoetzet Halacha
While spending shabbos in Washington Heights several weeks ago, the residents were in the process of trying to find a new Rabbi for the shul. On Friday night the shul organized an Oneg Shabbat question and answer session with the…
What is a Chillul Hashem?
Not a day goes by that my in-boxes are void of some sort of message telling me that I am making a Chillul Hashem (e.g. desecrating God’s name through my comedy). Whether via an angry email, Facebook message, Tweet, or…
Coming out of the closet in the frum community
An old friend of mine recently came out of the closet to me (he gave me permission to write about him without revealing who he is) and as anyone would be, I was completely shocked, I was also super pumped…
Parshas Voeschanan devar torah
I have decided that I would like to put up a devar torah each Friday- you can moan and groan, but I am firm in my decision. I feel that as a “frum blog” and an influential one at that-…
Defending the Charedim
So this past week between jobs I took my old summer job of inspecting camps for the State of NY back for a week or so. It was fun because as always it provides a rare seen glimpse and up…