I received this comical, yet very interesting question the other day via email and I thought to share it with you. There are many practices which people wonder how to broach when it comes to shidduchim, I recently met someone…
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Why I hate onlysimchas.com
Guest post from brand a new blogger who goes the name Blox Populi Not because I’m jealous. While I’m not married, I’m also not really looking at the moment, so I don’t resent your evident success at life. And it’s…
Shidduch Crisis is a boon for chesed industry
There appears to one positive aspect of the worldwide shidduch epidemic that has left millions of singles in its wake and that is people are doing more chesed. Traditionally, ultra orthodox women have begun to chesed in their middle teenage…
Out of town dating sucks
So I decided mentally that I would begin trying to meet some girls again, I have gone out one date since my girlfriend and I broke up in February. But due to the super active lifestyle I have been leading in…
Off the derech and looking for a shidduch
I have a lot of friends who are culturally orthodox, but aren’t necessarily religious and I’ve got to thinking about how to set these folks up. Lots of the folks I know simply don’t follow the path they grew up…
Making a shidduch rocks
Making a shidduch a tough job, but someone’s got to do it… I made my first successful shidduch recently. If you count the couple that met in the comments section of this blog and got married, I made two shidduchim,…
Shidduch Crisis Anonymous
Shidduch Crisis Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from the Shidduch Crisis. The only requirement for…
If the girl’s ugly, just pretend you’re the deliveryman
My buddy has a problem — he tends to get set up with ugly girls. This problem is multiplied by the fact that he lives in the middle of nowhere and has to fly 4 hours into New York City…
Same age marriage bill introduced in Senate
The State Senate has introduced the controversial Same Age Marriage Bill today, in order to curb what the media has termed as the, “rampant singles crisis.” According to State Senator Sheldon Golder, the “rampant singles crisis” is responsible for housing…
Not your typical Bais Yaakov girl
I never thought the day would come that a real live “not your typical bais yaakov girl” would exist…but low and behold – I received this from a real live one. By Zissy Malka – name is made up by…
Make 3 shidduchim and go directly to heaven – seems like BS to me
I have heard countless people say that if you make 3 shidduchim you get a direct VIP pass to heaven, but it seems like a load of crap to me. I know that may be a little heretical of me…
Shidduch Vision: My thoughts
I wrote about Shidduch Vision back in July, but this past week the opening of a studio in Lakewood has everyone talking about it and here is what I think: Shidduch vision is basically an overpriced web-cam for frummies who…
Yankees Win 2009 World Series
I don’t really care if they do or don’t, but the noise from across the street from my buddies house was keeping me up and I realized that a whole lot of you probably care or as Michael Moore likes…
Shidduch dating guide
Found this old shidduch dating guide on Bang It Out, and apparently its dated and anonymously written – but holds true for shidduch dating of the 80s and 90s, today’s shidduch game appears to be vastly different, but still its…
Do you find this Frumster ad offensive?
Someone just sent this to me over Facebook with the note that all of his married friends received it, but that his single friends did not, whatever the case may be – I can definitely understand how some singles may…
When the shadchan says she’s an open minded girl
The term open minded means something completely different when you are talking to frum people about shiduchim, it doesn’t actually mean that someone is open minded, it usually means that they found something about the girl or girls family different…
Shidduch Crisis Solution: Kallahs for Clunkers
Subj: Kallahs for Clunkers – A New Federal Initiative Forwarded to me by Rabbi Yossi After successfully solving the banking, mortgage, automobile, and housing crises, President Barack Obama has now turned his attention to solving the ultimate problem – The…
Shabbos davening at Shar Yashuv
I searched frantically for something to read during laining, I went to the library on the side of the shul and all I could find were two stone chumashim. There were no English mussar texts, no stories about people gaining…
First there was Only Simchas, then there was Only Yizkor
This is a paid advertisement: I remember a few years back, someone created a site similar to Only Simchas that was called Only Tzaras. Baically mocking Only Simchas by placing all sorts of bad events like broken engagements and yeshiva…
How some people find my site in google
I haven’t posted my search terms for some time- I used to do it quite often because it was funny- especially that frum porn is searched for so much. I wonder if thats a good thing? I just hope no…