The fellow who wrote this wasn’t joking when he said most guys who went to yeshiva would be able to relate. I feel like the entire mussar of my yeshiva was based on eating cheeseburgers and masturbating, I hear both…
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10 most common Gadol stories
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…
Yeshiva Memories: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
There were only about 5 magazines that we could actually subscribe to in yeshiva, Sports Illustrated was one of them. One of the jobs of the secretary was to filter out any pritzus that would wind up in our legal…
How do we shield our son from the hypocrisy in his yeshiva?
Dear Heshy, We send out son to one of the finest out of town yeshivas, but recently I’ve learned that he’s being exposed to something which we cannot really understand. Once a month, the local community hosts boys for different…
10 personalities you find at your local Hillel
A Field Guide to the Vildechayas of Hillel Guest post By Chaim Leib Kleinman Hillel is the epicenter of collegiate Jewish life. Maybe it used to be the place to meet goys and eat treif, but things have changed. It’s…
30 of the most important things I learned in yeshiva
Let me preface this post by saying that I probably would have learned most of the things had I not gone to yeshiva, but going to yeshiva definitely provides an education that is seldom matched elsewhere. Yeshiva graduates are definitely…
How badly did you treat your secular teachers in yeshiva?
The secular teachers in yeshiva get the short end of the stick, many schools, including mine weren’t too great in their care for the secular studies department. Sure, we were supposed to graduate with a regular regents diploma, with a…
Which yeshiva should I go to?
Hi Heshy, I just found your site (through the amazing post you did a while back on the politics of yarmulkes) and have enjoyed reading it. I admire how you try to find an amusing path through all the ideological…
I may not have been sexually abused in yeshiva but…
There was plenty of abuse. There were (kenasim) fines, plenty of them, for coming late to shachris one too many times, forgetting to bring receipts from your mall visit to “prove” you weren’t at the movies, and the ever present…
There’s no such thing as mainstream Judaism
Guest post by Pop Chossid The summer before I left for Israel to study in Mayanot (a baal teshuva yeshiva in Jerusalem) for the first time, I had gone to a Shabbos lunch at a rabbi’s home in St. Louis,…
Mir Yeshiva hosts auditions for Cotton Club
There’s nothing more exciting to the Yeshiva world than Cotton Club entertainment. For those of you who remember, the Cotton Club was a jazz nightclub in Harlem (in the 1920-40s) where white people could watch black people (aka “darkies”) perform.…
Yeshiva Memories: Sleeping in shiur
I sat alert for about ten minutes and then the rebbe started pacing, at this cue I arranged my gemara, mishna brura, notebooks and a mesilas yeshurim in a way that would hide the fact that I was dozing off.…
Why are yeshiva guys in Israel addicted to Hookah?
If I could think of a symbol to summarize the post high school “year” in Israel, it be a hookah. For some reason, everyone’s first thing they must do when they get to Israel is to head down to the…
Why kids who go to yeshiva in Israel “frum-out”
We have all seen it before, your next door neighbors kid, fresh off the boat from his year in Israel. The different yarmulke, maybe the longer tzitzis, that kissing of his hand after he shakes yours (maybe it’s an immunity…
Yeshiva Memories Video: Room Searches
Ever since I started making videos again a couple months ago, I decided to approach some of the topics I have written about from a talking perspective and I kind of like the randomness. As always the videos are raw,…
Getting even or evil by reviewing your yeshiva on yelp
I really love Yelp, I found my car mechanic, bike shop, local used book store and the best coffee in San Francisco on Yelp. There’s nothing like seeing what actual people say about their local businesses. I can spot the…
Top 10 reasons to get kicked out of yeshiva
My life has really been blessed by the Lord, who would have known that going to a reject yeshiva would have provided me with the ideas for so much of my writing. My yeshiva was like the outlet mall that…
Yeshivish Hipster Interpretive Dance
Found this gem on You Tube late one night – the dude in the video has a bunch of videos of him running around Lakewood in jeans that are way to tight for him. He may think he’s a hipster,…
The useful things I did learn in yeshiva
Contrary to what many of you may think, I learned a lot in yeshiva, I didn’t learn much Torah, but there was lots of useful stuff that I learned in yeshiva that I probably wouldn’t have learned in a normal…
The things I didn’t learn in Yeshiva
Someone was talking about this thing called Oregon Trail tonight and she was aghast that I had no idea what it was. She said “didn’t you use Oregon Trail during computer class in school” to which I responded “huh, you…
The Magic Words
The Magic Words By Offthedwannab I don’t know about you , but I remember being very confused by certain words as a kid. Certain words seemed to be magic words that could mean just about anything. Like Mitzvah. My mother…
Purim aint what it used to be
I have heard warnings from multiple people never to have sex while on E (ecstasy) because you will never enjoy sex again, I think purim is the same way, ever since leaving yeshiva – Purim hasn’t been the same. For…
The never ending towel and other gross yeshiva musings
There are some pretty disgusting things that go on yeshivas, but what else do you expect when you throw a bunch of ill mannered frum guys who never learn how to clean up after themselves into a yeshiva dorm together?…
Yeshiva Hashkafa Lessons
Guest Post By Offthedwannab This post is going to seem strange for the uninitiated, so let me give a short introduction. To the typical outsider, Yeshivos must seem like Christian Seminaries. You go there to learn theology, to pray, and…
US News ranks top Yeshivas
In a surprise move, US News and World Report’s annual college ranking now includes a new section for Yeshivas. Using a similar methodology for business and technical schools, the researchers collected data on acceptance rates, performance on standardized tests, opinions…