Dear Heshy, I loved your post yesterday about positive changes within the frum community. I find myself wondering why no one seems to focus on the positive changes that have taken place in frum society amidst all of the negativity.…
Tag: shidduch crisis
Is it worse to be an older single or a childless couple?
People think that once you get married, the shunning stops, that suddenly you’ve finally arrived into the Jewish community as a full fledged member, but you haven’t. In fact, some may say that you’re better off staying single than marrying…
10 Brutally Honest Things I’ve Learned My Year “In-Town”
Hey Heshy, Not particularly sure why I felt the need to write this; I guess the absurdity of PLLBR got me thinking. For context I moved to Brooklyn about a year ago for the annual (REALLY)out-of-town to town shidduchim migration.…
Whatever happened to the shidduch crisis?
They say that the shidduch crisis is only as bad as your personal life, they say that once you get married you begin to realize that the shidduch crisis you faced was only your own crisis. If that’s the case,…
Gender Bending
Gender Bending by Chaya Miriam Fried I, like everyone else, pretended to be shocked when the halachic ruling was released today allowing select couples to choose the gender of their burgeoning babies with the help of a rav, of cour$e.…
You hold the key to the shidduch crisis
Hat tip to Ahron M.
A Single girls perspective on the shidduch crisis and narrow mindedness
The Shidduch Crisis and the Tyranny of Narrow Mindedness: A Single Girls Perspective (but what the heck can I possibly know, I’m not married…) Guest Post by Deena Sasoon Here is what you need to know about me. I’m female,…
How To Fix the Shidduch Crisis: Abort Female Babies
(Brooklyn, NY) An unprecedented call-to-action has been issued from leading Rabbis, community activists and matchmakers: For the last couple decades, the Orthodox communities have been in the grip of what some call “the terrifying Shidduch crisis”; some young women are,…
Shidduch Business
Guest post by Daniel Mainzer “There’s no business like Shoah business.” That was true for the past 60 years but times they are a changin’. Unemployment is high and desperation even higher, unemployed and over-caffeinated. Shidduch crisis or shidduch business?
Guide to the different crises of the frum community
I am sure that there have been many a crisis throughout the history of Jewish people, like the Golden Calf crisis and the Girls of Moab crisis, but in my lifetime alone I remember a number of crisis taking place…
The myths and realities of “The Shidduch Crisis”
Guest Post by Rabbi Josh Yuter There are few topics in Jewish society which can simultaneously evoke rage, empathy, and unsolicited opinions and advice as Jewish dating. To take just one example, my statistical analysis of dating prospects drew approval…
A girls guide to shadchan speak
A Girl’s Guide to Shadchan-Speak by Chaya Miriam Jurado Why should guys have all the fun? The following may or may not help you with your search. *He’s a bookkeeper = he can’t even change the windshield wipers on his…
Fine you’re a matchmaker!
Fine, You’re a Matchmaker by Anshel M. My. G-d. What have I gotten myself into? Nervous as you can possibly imagine, I called this shadchan (“she is NOT a shadchan”) on the insistence of my friend’s mother (“Oh please, don’t…
Top 10 reasons to go on a singles shabbaton
As a general rule, frum singles hate singles shabbatons, they go because one of their more open minded friends has asked them a billion times to, their parents offered to pay or they feel they have to – but hardly…
The Heights and depths of dating
I love Washington Heights. It’s where the urban grid of Manhattan hits reality, where streets are smacked into cliffs and valleys, with stepped streets, sharp curves, and a mix of Russians, Dominicans, and an endless supply of young MO singles.…
I hate the shidduch crisis
The Washington Post article (in which I was linked) has been creating quite a bit of buzz about the so called “shidduch crisis” lately and something just clicked in my head after reading it and some of the commentary. I…
What will the next frum community crisis be?
First we had the kids at risk crisis, then the bugs in the water crisis, then there were bugs in everything healthy, green and leafy crisis, the Indian hair sheitle crisis, the shidduch crisis, the visiting day crisis, the yeshiva…
Washington Heights versus the Upper West Side
Whenever you talk to singles contemplating on moving out of their communities to a “singles community” you hear them debate about whether they want to move to the Upper West Side (aka UWS) or Washington Heights (aka The Heights) These…
The official shidduch resume
When I first heard about shidduch resumes I was kind of shocked, I always figured that shidduchim should be made by people who knew the involved parties personally, but alas with the global shidduch crisis in full effect, shidduchim have…
Brave girl agrees to post her shidduch resume on Frum Satire
I put the call out on Facebook for anyone who wishes to post their real/fake/funny or otherwise serious shidduch profile on my site can do so. I have heard several people tell me that they would like a guy/girl who…
The best and funniest video describing Shadchanim
I have been saying the same thing for years, I just don’t know how to make videos – this is the best video describing the shidduch process via shadchan ever!!!
Lashon Hara Sucks and Ruined My Friend’s Relationship
My friend got divorced about a year ago. Like many others I know who have gotten married due to communal pressure, the marriage was short and bad, with no baggage coming from it – until now. You see, my friend…
Do you want to get married enough to settle?
I have wondered if people would rather be without a partner or settle for one that is less than perfect (I know perfection is impossible, but settling for something just because you are at wits end is something entirely different)…
Does this exacerbate the shidduch crisis?
So I’m sitting at someone’s house this last Shabbos and am told that my buddy and I couldn’t eat there the next day because they are having two single girls over. Both our jaws dropped open and we wondered the…
Heshy Fried admits that lettuce does have bugs
World famous blogger Heshy Fried has admitted that lettuce does in fact have bugs in it. The author of Frum Satire which seeks to discredit orthodox Judaism from a humorous standpoint admitted in an interview that lettuce and other vegetables…