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Dating & Marriage
What is One Question You Should Never Ask on a Shidduch Date?
R' Eli Mansour: I forgot my wallet. Can you pay?Eli Schwebel: How much do you weigh?Yechiel Stern: How much does your father…
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Yeshivish
Do You Recognize the Weird, Feared Boro Park “Goy” Stare?
This can make anyone self-conscious. From the Jewish Press: January 29, 2016 From "Humans of New York" on February 6, 2012" with…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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Yeshivish
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Nostalgia
Yeshiva Memories: Sports
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Yeshivish
The job opportunities for ex-Yeshiva guys and wannabe hockers
The best thing about being a yeshiva dropout, bum or off the derech kid is that unlike the rest of the population…
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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…
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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…
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Dating & Marriage
Yeshiva Memories: Saturday Nights
Prior to moving back to Rochester for College I didn’t realize what a cool town it could be, the Rabbis took those…
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Food & Kashrus
Shabbos Nachamu in Woodbourne
The last real shabbos nachamu I spent roaming between Woodbourne and Kiamesha Lanes was years ago, I must have been about 22…
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Music, Movies & Pop Culture
Yeshivish movies
There are many yeshivish things, potato chips, cars and yarmulkes can all be yeshivish, but movies are never really thought of as…
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Yeshivish
Yeshiva ad journals suck, why can’t they just have yearbooks?
What the heck is the deal with yeshiva dinner ad journals, is it just me or can we all agree that they…
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Yeshivish
Did your yeshiva have a big macher?
One year he decided to buy candy canes, but this wasn’t your run of the mill after Christmas sale at Rite Aid,…
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Food & Kashrus
Yeshiva memories: Trips to the sort-of treife donut shop
It wasn’t just an ordinary jelly donut with powder on top, it was a wonderful thing this donut, a taste of freedom,…
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Yeshivish
I was in the dumb shiur
It wasn't actually called the dumb shiur, it was called Rucks shiur, but it might as well have been. Not that I…
