Tag: guest post
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Jewish Life
My Glorious Washing Station and Why You Should All Be Envious
by The Mrs. With regard to frumkeit, before you completely write off Northern California, consider my glorious washing sink. Actually, consider my whole apartment,…
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Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur
Why I hate Baal Teshuvas
Sometimes people take my satire seriously, in fact, the following email is a rant from a BT who mistook my satirical piece about why…
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Jewish Life
The high cost of being Jewish
The High Cost of Being Jewish By Richard Lederman author of the Religious Humanist blog Serious Jewish journalism consistently laments the high cost of…
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Jewish Life
Dear Heshy: Hating on BT’s will not solve any problems
Dear Heshy, I follow you on facebook fairly regularly and noticed your post on what you hate about baalei teshuva. Now before all of…
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Shul Life
I hope you aren’t jerks when I have to say Kaddish
Guest Post by Charles Zucker Fortunately, I’ve never had to say Kaddish for anyone. I hope, when that day comes, that the rest of…
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Shul Life
The Tyranny of Hagbah
The Tyranny of Hagbah Guest Post by Charles Zucker No bully has ever kicked sand in my face. And though I was never a…
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Jewish Life
Yosef: Metrosexual of the Torah
by Chaya Miriam Fried All the signs are there. The primping of the hair. The eyeliner. The channeling of Alice Cooper with a disco…
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Israel
Overnight Massive Construction Campaign in Israeli Occupied Territories Brings White House Condemnation
Overnight Massive Construction Campaign in Israeli Occupied Territories Brings White House Condemnation 27 Sep 2012, 6:13 PM (ET) By SHANA HABBAB, Associated Press WASHINGTON…
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Jewish Life
Lakewood isn’t what it used to be
Dear Baruch, By Shragi Getzel It’s been a while since we last talked; I hope you’re doing well in Eretz Yisroel now. It’s been…
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Dating & Marriage
What the Olympics taught me about shidduchim
Guest post by BritishMO What the Olympics taught me about shidduchim: I know that this may be one of the first British blog posts…
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Dating & Marriage
Tu’Bav and the Single Guy
Guest post by Yonatan Sredni Panui?” the stocky, sweating, balding guy in the un-tucked white dress shirt and tiny knitted kippah atop his head,…
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Jewish Life
A magnificent evening: The 12th Siyum HaShas 2012
Guest Post by Rabbi Fink The Twelfth Siyum HaShas was the most incredible event I have ever had the privilege of attending. The Siyum…
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Jewish Life
Jewish Pluralism Means Orthodoxy Too
I stole this from Patrick Aleph of Punk Torah: I have a friend who is an Orthodox rabbi. OK, several. But one in particular…
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Dating & Marriage
Intermarriage: An open letter to Orthodox and Conservative Rabbis
An open letter to Orthodox and Conservative rabbis: Guest Post by Laura Cooper You say you’re against intermarriage, you know there’s a 50% intermarriage…
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Jewish Life
Are you lazydox? The female version!
Being "Lazydox" by Elisheva I was inspired to write this post after reading Heshy's on the same topic. I pointed out that his list…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Tazria-Metzora: Inclusion Criteria
The notion of there being ten commandments -- that is, the Ten Commandments -- permeates Judeo-Christian religious philosophy, despite the fact that the Old…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Shmini: A Hair’s Breadth’s Perspective on Wrongdoing
Imagine the most awesome and splendid of occasions accompanied by the most fabulous and incredible fanfare and it would approximate the scene that was…
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Jewish Life
What Jon Stewart Fails to Understand
by Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel, San Francisco, CA Reprinted from Rabbi Strulowitz's Blog at www.adathisraelsf.org Last week Jon Stewart ran a segment…
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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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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
What is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach?
by Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Congregation Adath Israel in San Francisco Reprinted from Rabbi Strulowitz's Blog on www.adathisraelsf.org What is Rabbi Shmuley Boteach? He is…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Vayikra: The Fundamental Rift
There often lies within each parsha the potential for a disagreement between the Akivan and Ishmaelian perspectives, and although it may appear as a…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Ki Sisa: A Divine Peep Show
We could talk for months about this week's parsha, and I might just have to write for FrumSatire for another 10 years to give…
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Jewish Life
In defense of Pearl Perry Reich
Guest Post by Chaim Levin In the recent, very heated debates over the legitimacy of Pearl Perry Reich's claims of abuse by rabbinic authority,…
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Jewish Life
Dvar Torah Tetzave: Divine Dwelling
I was really excited by talk of a flat-tax because it would be so much easier to work with than what we have now. …