I love gadol biographies, I find myself sitting in shul most every shabbos delving into the stories, lies, fabrications, and mythology surrounding the stories of the shtetl and all those illui’s who knew shas by the age of 13 and…
Tag: shtetl
Can we focus on the positive things happening in the frum community?
I’m sick of all the negativity that seems to be going on in the frum community these days. Jews hating other Jews because they don’t keep the same standards. Jews hating other Jews because they have different ways of practicing…
In the alter heim
I didn’t grow up in one of those families that felt the constant need to remind me about how frum it was in the Alter Heim (the old country), but in yeshiva and thereafter, I was reminded constantly. Today, there…
Strictly Kosher Reading
A Guest Post by E. Fink Original post: Finkorswim.com Over Yom Tov I read some great books and articles. I hope to share some of them with you over the next couple of weeks. Perhaps the most compelling book I read…
Proof that orthodox Jews in the shtetl were smarter than today
I have proof that the frum Jews of yore were smarter than they are today, of course my proof is faulty, because things were different back then. Back then, there was no internet or secular society to pollute the minds…
I remember when our Young Israel had social dances
I am so maddened by the shift to the right in orthodoxy. When I was a kid there was none of this crazy separation of the sexes and you didn’t see us having trouble with marriages. Did I ever tell…
Chuppah boners, shtetl sex and more
For some reason I won’t allow myself to merely write little tidbits that have entered my mind at one time or another, because I usually find them too short to write as a full post. Recently I looked at my…