Tag: Charedim
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Tznius policed in Ramot want separate grocery lines
I was reading Yeshiva World News this morning and yes I read them even though they suck, mostly because I have to be up…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
GPS for frummies
It seems like there is a whole economy that runs on chumras, whenever something gets banned or made stricter, someone comes out with a…
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Dating & Marriage
Childrens games help end shidduch crisis and promote tznius
Hat tip to fellow blogger Sara who gave me the idea over facebook From the beginning of time one of the ways to give…
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Food & Kashrus
Kugel Attack in Meah Shearim!!!
So instead of setting aside stones to throw at people not obeying their chumros, the Charedim in Meah Shearim are using potato kugel. Well…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
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…
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Israel
Are you pissed that some events have mixed seating?
Then you can bring tear gas and stab someone... Vos is Neias reports that a man in Israel showed up at a birthday party…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Crown Heights Simchas Bais Hoshoeva: Photos and Thoughts
I arrived in Crown Heights at 11:30pm last night, jacked up on an almond snickers bar and some mountain dew I thanked the Lord…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Anti Indulgence Chassidim in Williamsburg ban Choice!!!
I have always had some existential angst when it came to the whole concept of choice. All those theories about freedom of choice and…
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Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur
The problem with using chickens for kapparos
Taken from the "chumra of the week" Facebook club. Not sure who exactly wrote it- but its amazing I don’t hold by kaparot/ss with…
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Israel
Charedim in Israel Ban Tzipi Livni
If they could I am sure they would- but blotting out her face and not mentioning her name is the next best thing. I…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Chassidim in Willaimsburg say bike lanes are not tznius!!!
When the bans and chumras start affecting me they have gone too far. While reading Vos Iz Neias this morning I cam across an…
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Dating & Marriage
Jewish Music Hechsher: What exactly is Jewish music?
For all you people with ADD: The first half of this post is serious, second half is hilarious. So the Charedim in Israel have…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Should there be a dress code at the Kotel?
So I snapped the following picture at the kotel and it made a ruckus on my Facebook album of Israel pictures (I intend to…
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Dating & Marriage
How frummies utilize the brims of their black hats
For some reason I got in a mood to write classic frum satire stuff this week. Apparently there is a crisis within the shidduch…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Do chassidim really do things backward?
My faucets in my house are backwards, they are all switched from the normal sides of hot and cold and they turn the opposite…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Defending the Charedim
So this past week between jobs I took my old summer job of inspecting camps for the State of NY back for a week…