The Yeshiva World News website may not match the depth and variety of their competition Vos Iz Nieas, but YWN as it’s affectionately known has an amazing forum filled with ridiculous questions posed by ridiculous people. It’s basically the best…
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Charedi Bus segregation is a chillul Hashem
Thw following article is not a joke, it was actually published in all seriousness… Amidst all the controversy pertaining to mehadrin bus lines at the moment in Israel, sparked in part by a woman who instigated the issue when she…
You know you’re not a yeshiva guy anymore when…
The fellow who started the following thread on Yeshiva World News‘ forum let me know about it so I copied and pasted a bunch of the more interesting postings here: I was a real yeshiva guy. 14 years in yeshiva…
Are you makpid on looks?
Typically the term Makpid is used in conversations about eating pas yisroel or checking your potato skins for bugs, but those folks who read the yeshiva world news forums are quite frummy and when you’re a real frummy you can…
Matzav vs. Vos Iz Neias: Jewish news sites go to war
My personal thoughts are that the frum Jewish news sites are merely blogs full of copied and pasted material, I always figured a news site would have reporters and cover their own stories. It seems that the only one that…
Yeshiva World News discovers the cause of the shidduch crisis
This video has got to be one of the strangest I have seen in some time – we all know there’s some sort of shidduch crisis, we all know there’s some people who claim the age gap theory, but it…
Yeshiva World News comment of the day
In this past weeks torah portion we learned that Esav used to ask his father really dumb questions that he knew the answer to in order to make himself seem more frum in his fathers eyes. This same thing is…
Yeshiva World News wins the Frum Satire WTF of the week
Yeshiva World News gets a bit WTF for this article which makes it seem like they want to become entertainment weekly of the frum world. Do we really need a Rebbe Gossip column? Wait doesn’t the Jewish Press already have…
Gedolim ban hatzolah pictures: They are Jewish pornography
Gedolim Ban Hatzolah Pictures due to pornographic nature: In a striking move, a group of Jewish community activists known as the Gedolei Yisroel have banned any pictures of hatzolah on the job due to their pornographic nature.
Yeshiva World News uses Toevah instead of Gay
A guest post, and new contest idea by XGH – posted on Dov Bear Readers of Yeshivah World News will have noticed that rather than (chas vesholom) use the word “gay’ (or LGBT) they insist on saying ‘The To’evah Community’.
Gebrokts crisis: some say snorting matzo is the best way
Once again I am amazed by what comes out of the Charedi world, the latest is a gebrokts scare. Apparently Rabbonim are saying that matzo could become leavened in your mouth and even though many Charedim dry their mouths with…
Rabbi in Israel: Returning lost cell phones is assur
I would like to thank the Yeshiva World News once again for providing me with fodder for yet another post that shows that Charedim are getting way out of hand when it comes to their chumras. Yeshiva World News the…
Is it tznius for women to wear purim costumes?
Once again I have to hand it to the Yeshiva World News coffee room for entertaining and enraging me at the same time. They do a great job at finding people who think that all the evils of this generation…
Why I love Yeshiva World News
Yeshiva World News is a love hate relationship, I know many of you may think I hate them – but I don’t, I understand they are catering to a more charedi and less scandal intensive audience than Vos Iz Neias.…
Man posing as YWN editor tries to get me to shut up
I guess last weeks post pissed people off enough to make someone create a false email address and email me posing as a Yeshiva World News editor, claiming that someone had emailed him the link to my post VIN vs.…