Tag: frum community
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Jewish Life
Can we focus on the positive things happening in the frum community?
I'm sick of all the negativity that seems to be going on in the frum community these days. Jews hating other Jews because they…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Dear Heshy: Why do you hate Charedim so much?
Dear Heshy, As a long time reader, I think I know you pretty well and I've been wondering why you hate Charedim so much.…
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Jewish Life
What are the most important issues facing Orthodoxy?
As a sociologist of the frum community, I'm on a constant quest to figure our strange little community out. In the process of this,…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The Catch 22 of Tznius
Tznius is one big Catch 22, if you dress tzniusly people will judge you by it and if you don't dress tzniusly - people…
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Food & Kashrus
The great kugel debate: Is it cake or kugel?
Since food is one of the most important aspects of the frum community, it's no wonder that the great kugel vs. cake debate is…
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Dating & Marriage
The Young Marrieds are destroying the frum community
I'm not sure that I thought of the complications that surround the young couple trying to find other couples to hang out with. Now…
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Jewish Life
The new era of Tzedakah…$50,000 raffles
When I was a kid you didn't get much gashmius in return for your tzedakah, you got the good feeling every kid gets when…
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Dating & Marriage
The latest trend in frum divorces
I think the title may be misleading so let me clarify, the latest trend in my friends who are getting divorce and it's not…
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Dating & Marriage
A Single girls perspective on the shidduch crisis and narrow mindedness
The Shidduch Crisis and the Tyranny of Narrow Mindedness: A Single Girls Perspective (but what the heck can I possibly know, I’m not married…)…
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Jewish Life
Ignorance is Bliss
Sometimes I wish I could go back to my high school days, the days before existential crisis wracked my mind, the days when issues…
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Jewish Life
I won’t eat at your house, you shaygetz!
Dear Telz Angel, I live in a small community and I need your help. My wife and I are BTs but have not flipped…
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Yeshivish
Guide to the different crises of the frum community
I am sure that there have been many a crisis throughout the history of Jewish people, like the Golden Calf crisis and the Girls…
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Dating & Marriage
The myths and realities of “The Shidduch Crisis”
Guest Post by Rabbi Josh Yuter There are few topics in Jewish society which can simultaneously evoke rage, empathy, and unsolicited opinions and advice…
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Dating & Marriage
I hate the shidduch crisis
The Washington Post article (in which I was linked) has been creating quite a bit of buzz about the so called "shidduch crisis" lately…
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Jewish Life
Do you know what a Monsey House is?
I decided to take a ride through the pre-fab home neighborhood right near my house today, I was on the tail end of a…
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Dating & Marriage
Money doesn’t buy happiness and marriage doesn’t make your problems go away
My friend has a problem, he hates his job, he hates his single life and he hates New York - when I tell him…
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Dating & Marriage
Forget the shidduch crisis, what about the ridiculously short marriage crisis?
Not sure what's going on but in the last year I have known over half a dozen people my age that have gotten divorced…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Charedim refer to homosexuals as an abomination, but being dishonest in business is an abomination too
By Honestly Frum The torah warns us that there are 3 things that are so reprehensible that the only way we can refer to…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Is talking about Leib Tropper in a public manner a chillul Hashem?
"The enormous Chillul Hashem reported in Sunday’s New York Post is almost without precedent in thousands of years of Jewish history." As quoted by…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Fraud in the frum community: My thoughts and experiences
I am not shocked at all by the recent cases of business and money related fraud, its too bad I kind of expect this…
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Jewish Life
Coming out of the closet in the frum community
An old friend of mine recently came out of the closet to me (he gave me permission to write about him without revealing who…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
My first shabbos in Dallas
For those of you with ADD I warn you that this post is over 5 pages long- but I love it because this type…