One of the questions I receive most often is about Rabbis and community support for frum fraudsters, many people think that the frum community’s support of those engaged in fraud is one of incredible hypocrisy and this can often lead…
Tag: tzedaka
What’s the strangest Chinese Auction prize you’ve seen?
Despite the fact that I’m against Chinese Auctions because they make tzedaka into something which there must be immediate reward for, I find myself looking at them anyway. Sure, I feel like a hypocrite whenever I sign up for another…
Make her wedding night good!
by Chaya Miriam Fried Let’s face it: the cost of a wedding is obscene. Ours was out of town, super low-key AND made possible by the assistance of many very kind people, but just seeing the bills (even though they…
Giving a helping paw.
Aside from FrumSatire’s recent “no new blog post crisis” in our community, there have been many other problems we have been dealing with over the past few weeks. Probably nothing greater than last week’s storm. I myself am still suffering the…
Is this the start of frum spam?
I got this email a while back and the person who calls herself Shulamis sent it again and asked me to respond kindly, at least she didn’t ask me for my account number and password. I responded that since the…
Save Eliyahu Weinstein send me your money now
Guest Post by Dov Bear Apparently, evil, anti-Semtic FBI agents have been sent by the Jew-hater in charge, Barak Hussein-From-Nigeria Obama, to arrest Eliyahu Weinstein a most holy and upright Jewish man from Lakewood on trumped up charges of fraud,…
This kiddush levana is sponsored by
Never in my life have I opened up a non-Jewish book to find that it was sponsored by someone, yet most religious Jewish books have some sort of sponsorship. I think it’s another tzedaka scam. I write a book and…
Why I went Off the Derech
I received this a while ago and just recently found it in my inbox. I remember thinking the first time I read it that it was one of the most interesting pieces I have ever received. I hope you like…
Yeshiva Memories: Purim
There were endless bottles of wine at the table and a keg of beer in the kitchen, red cups filled with beer were passed around, but nobody seemed to want any. I was at a college purim seuda and no…
Organ donors definitely don’t suck
A fan asked me to post this – her son needs a kidney, but she is scared what will wind up in the comments. On a dark humor note, at least there is the potential for a bunch of comments…
Guide to Jewish newspaper advertisements
This post is a continuation of last weeks Guide to Jewish Newspapers The advertising budget of the frum community is huge, just go to any right wing frum community and check out how many mini-magazines they have devoted solely to…
Have you ever had the Machlis experience?
If you spent any time in Israel you probably are at least one shabbos meal at the Machlis family, known world wide for their hospitality crammed into a small space with the most random of random people and a chance…
Meshulachim have started using portable credit card machines
Years ago I pondered if homeless people or meshulachim would ever have the bright idea to whip out a portable credit card machine. If you think about it, its quite smart, no excuses, “I don’t have any money” just doesn’t…