Category: Nostalgia
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Nostalgia
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…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva memories: The brilliant use of tissue boxes
Tissue boxes are almost like the yeshiva guys version of the Swiss Army Knife. Not only are tissues used as book marks, nose picking…
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Nostalgia
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…
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Music, Movies & Pop Culture
Remember when you actually had to leave your house to rent a movie
I remember the pains of hopping in the car with four friends and driving all the way out to Blockbuster only to realize that…
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Nostalgia
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…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva Memories: Drugs, Alcohol and Cigarettes
I have yet to smoke a cigarette and only took my first hit off a join at the age of 27, yet from the…
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Dating & Marriage
Shidduch Dating Memories: Bowling was pricey so she paid for dinner
I have writers block, so I decided to go back all the way to 06 and 07 to see which posts were fun reads…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva Memories: NCSY stands for No One Can Save You
Not only were girls considered evil according to my yeshiva, but theOY run kiruv organization NCSY was considered doubly evil because they sought to…
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Dating & Marriage
Yeshiva Memories: The Girls
It's Tu B'Av, so I figured I would write something about girls. In my second year of high school an amazing thing happened, Rochester…
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Nostalgia
Reject Yeshiva Memories
I was thrown out of the dorm in my last year of yeshiva for selling a stack of maxim magazines to this kid we…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Woodbourne: Fond memories of chassidic hitchhikers and frummy rebels
Over the years I have written a lot about the Catskills phenomina, this is the first post I ever wrote on the subject and…
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Israel
I remember when our Young Israel had social dances
I am so maddened by the shift to the right in orthodoxy. When I was a kid there was none of this crazy separation…
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Nostalgia
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,…
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Purim
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…
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Food & Kashrus
Yeshiva Memories: My class trip
My 12th grade class trip is nothing to boast about, but as the years go by I realize more and more how yeshivish of…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva Memories: Sports
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Music, Movies & Pop Culture
Yeshiva Memories: Goyishe Music
The door flew open and I immediately took the tape out of the deck and hid it under my covers. I was lying in…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva memories: Getting free catalogs in the mail
One of the most joyous occasions in yeshiva for many folks including myself was when I got something in the mail. I wasn’t cool…
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Nostalgia
Boro Park memories: Wallachs and G & Sons
Dad: You can’t wear that Me: Why not? What’s the problem? Dad: Don’t argue with me, that’s just not how its done over there.…
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Dating & Marriage
Yeshiva Memories: When the girls yeshiva came to town
In my second year of yeshiva the city of Rochester received something which made all of us yeshiva guys excited for about 3 minutes,…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva Memories: making money in the dorm
I used to bake vanilla cakes with frosting in my toaster oven, it would smell so damned good up and down the halls that…
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Israel
When BT’s aren’t quite there yet: Ohr Someyach Memories
For those of you fortunate to witness my comedy show in Bet Shemesh on the second night of the frum satire Israel comedy tour…
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Nostalgia
Woodbourne Memories
The first time I ever got to see Woodbourne in full swing was on the Saturday night of Shabbos Nachamu about 10 years ago.…
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Food & Kashrus
Yeshiva Memories: The horrible food
There was an article in one of the Jewish papers recently(if anyone knows where please tell me- I think it was the Jewish Press),…
