When I was a kid you didn’t get much gashmius in return for your tzedakah, you got the good feeling every kid gets when their parent gives them mitzvah money for the pushka box, but you didn’t get prizes or…
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Nice little kiddush Hashem
Guest post by Eliyahu Fink I just bumped into one of my (Jewish) Law School professors and he told me something worth sharing. He was reading an article about the Japan disaster fund. Donations are coming in from all over…
Super Sunday
I wonder how many people who read Frum Satire even know what Super Sunday is, sure, 35% of you are not orthodox, but how many of you have anything to do with your local Jewish Federation? I myself have nothing…
Chinese Auctions: Everyone’s doing it man
I have no idea how it started, but if you’re a Jewish organization worth it’s weight in leftover cholent it seems you have to put on some kind of Chinese Auction every year. It has been this way for some…
My frum-porn arrived in the mail
It’s a magazine with shiny pages and vibrant picture. And it’s total frummy-porn goodness. But there’s no skin, and hardly any pictures of people. Confused? It’s the Annual Shnorah Chinese Raffle Catalog. Porn for frummies. Beautiful images of highly desirable, but…
Poor people deserve respect too
I was checking out the scene on Pico Boulevard on Saturday night in Los Angeles and I got to talking with this poor Jewish fellow standing out in front of Nagilla Pizza asking for money to pay his medical bills.…
Tzedakah: The frum communities best attribute
I would like to retell a story that I heard from Rabbi Levine of San Jose’s Congregation Am Echad: An Israeli man had just finished collecting money in South Florida to marry off his daughter, he was on his way…
What do you think about giving tzedaka to get things in return?
The greatest piece of frum community catalog type literature is the Oorah Chinese auction catalog. It can be seen in countless frum homes sually sitting on top of a pile of mail, old yateds or stacked in the bathroom next…