Tag: halacha
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5137Joke no. Classic joke · No. 5137
Halachah MiDisney
While Disney World does maintain daily minyanim throughout the park, many poskim have declared it forbidden to pray with them. They proclaim that mice…
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5142Joke no. Classic joke · No. 5142
The Jewish laws of television
The Jewish Laws of Television Author's Preface: This book must not be used as a guide to practical Halochoh. I am not a qualified…
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December Dilemmas
Kovetz Hilchos Xmas – A Parody for the Rest of Us
Get the book on Amazon Humor has always been a staple for Jewish survival. Through our millenia of tragedies and overall reasons to be…
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Jewish Life
Hilchos Ice Bucket Challenge
by Rabbi Yerachmiel Kalonymous Eiswasser The so-called Ice Bucket Challenge or Nisayon D’li Kerach in halachic terms has brought the machle (illness) ALS (Amyotrophic…
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Jewish Life
I’m obsessed with wearing shatnez
My parents bought me my first good suit for my bar mitzvah, they told me that since I was going to be responsible for…
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Jewish Life
New sefer on Hilchos Prison
With more and more Orthodox Jews going to prison these days (obviously it's due to antisemitism and those who are moser) one has to…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
10 best tznius posters and letters
I'm not exactly sure when certian people in the frum community decided to make tznius into the cause of all the calamities that befall…
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Jewish Life
The 25 best Jewish loopholes
Look, if Judaism wasn't full of tricks, shortcuts, and loopholes, I'm pretty sure that the religion would have died already. One of the reasons…
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Jewish Life
How breaking halacha made me a better Jew
In response to The Tablet article on a woman who stopped covering her hair I grew up in a regular frum home in Brooklyn,…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The Carpool is the latest breach in tznius
It's unfortunate that our society has begun the downward spiral in morality, but since the beginning of time, each generation has had it's own…
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Chanukah
Will frummies finally celebrate Thanksgiving this year?
Thanksgiving is one of the few goyishe holidays that is actually a debate in the frum community. Unlike most other goyishe holidays, Thanksgiving is…
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Jewish Life
Shabbos Toilet Paper
For the first time in my life I was assigned the task of cutting toilet paper for shabbos. In my modern orthodox youth we…
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Jewish Life
The Halachos of Halloween
I'm pretty sure that the only goyishe holiday celebrated en masse by Jews is Halloween, on Christmas we go to Chinese Food thereby not…
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Dating & Marriage
Should we beat up men who refuse to give their wife a get?
I guess it's the question of the week and it seems that pretty much everyone in the frum community supports such practice, I know…
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Jewish Life
Rav Ovadia Yosef: The last lenient gadol!
I don't normally do posts on folks who pass away unless they were as cool looking as Rav Ovadia Yosef. He was the Sephardic…
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Sukkos & Simchas Torah
Women should not be allowed to eat in the sukkah
I've gotten this picture from several folks and I just don't understand what the big deal is? I think it's like anything most of…
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Jewish Life
Women of the Wall is a sham
Pretty much the entire Jewish world is talking about Women of the Wall, they have either desecrated one of the worlds holy sites or…
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Jewish Life
Dear R’ Heshy: Are vegans going against halacha?
Dear R' Heshy, I know we're friends on Facebook, but I'm not sure if you saw the tumult on HaRav HaGaon Eliyahu Finks Facebook…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Halachic Debate: Is there kosher sefira music?
I am not a learned guy, sure I pasken for myself, can leaf through a mishna brura and try to talk in learning with…
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Jewish Life
Off The Derech Community writes Halachic Guidelines
In the early 90's when the Kids At Risk movement began it wasn't anything to get too excited over, basically a bunch of yeshiva…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Is Gambling Assur?
Is Gambling Assur? by Chaya Miriam Fried I’ve been told that there are quite a few ins and outs regarding the halachos of gambling.…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Dear Heshy: I saw a frum woman wearing a bikini and covering her hair!
I just received the following, and I've been getting them for years : Greetings, thought would like this...my family and I are hanging by…
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December Dilemmas
Hilchos Christmas
Guest post by Eliyahu Fink Last week, a friend of mine asked his Facebook friends if Santa Claus was mechuyav to go to Church…
