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: stories
When will the frum community stop telling fairy tales and modernize their stories
It seems like within every shabbos drash that my Rav, a U-Penn educated, gives over contains a story about a king and his son. The king and the son story is meant to be a rallying cry for the Jews…
I finally heard an inspirational BT story firsthand
As a certified conspiracy theorist of the frum community, I generally doubt the validity of inspirational stories, especially the ones that seem to be designed to make people frum. Back in the day, before the Charedi world decided it could…
My top shidduch dating fails
This post will be a whole lot better if you folks participate. I only say this because although I have several funny fails from my short lived shidduch dating career, I am sure that you all have your own stories…
Some frummies have table manners
Hey Hesh, Just wanted to tell you this great story I think you readers would get a kick out of that happened to me when I was in yeshiva. When I was learning in yeshiva, my parents friends kid was…
Today is the 5 year anniversary of Frum Satire
To be honest with you I’m not s stickler for anniversaries, I was told to always remember my wedding anniversary whenever I decide to take that plunge, but for now I remember one of the most important days of my…
Shidduch rejection stories from the front lines
We’ve all heard about shidduch being broken due to non-white table cloth usage on shabbos, the boys having no laces in their shoes (says they are lazy) and the girl going to the wrong seminary, but those tales are old…
One strange shidduch story
I met a guy recently who told me the following story, like most people I had to twist his arm to let me post it with everything changed so no one would ever know who it is, though for some…
How do kids learn about “adult” stories in the Torah?
I remember the first time I learned of Noah and his sons, I must have been in grade school and we were taught that the sons uncovered his nakedness, Sure we all giggled, imagining that his sons were walking through…
Detroit Memories
The pizza store in Detroit is like no other I’ve been to, they have the greatest cheese sticks in the world. Soft homemade bread, topped with garlic and filled with cheese. I used to drive out of my way when…
I went on a shidduch and he paid with food stamps
I was sitting at a table chatting with some lovely young ladies on Sunday morning at the Isabella Freedman center in Connecticut, this one girl asked me if it was normal for people to pay with food stamps on a…