Tag: internet
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Frum girls expect only women to watch their videos
Ever since the Internet Asifa, more and more frum people have discovered the joys of the internet. Unfortunately, one of the things the Asifa…
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Music, Movies & Pop Culture
Having or not having a TV used to be the best way to judge someones observance level
I remember when you could judge someone's entire family over whether or not they had a TV in the home. It used to be…
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Jewish Life
How bad is your attention span?
I can track attention spans based on my experience in blogging alone, average attention spans have gone down in the 7 years or so…
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Jewish Life
Rabbi Michael Broyde: Not the first to use fake online identity
By now I'm sure you've heard of Rabbi Michael Broyde, the disgraced Rabbi and professor who used fake identities online to bolster his clout,…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Unfiltered Internet will cause you to sin
This is not a typical Frum Satire article, and quite frankly, I don’t even know if they’ll publish it. Unlike some other “frum” news…
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Yeshivish
Rosh Yeshiva pasuls witness at chupah because of iPhone
There was a time when I thought such a story would be a hoax, but those days are gone. There has been so much…
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Jewish Life
Can Judaism survive the Internet?
Guest post by Rabbi Fink Slate has another article in their unofficial series on orthodox Judaism and specifically on chasidic Judaism. In this article,…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Was the Asifa a greater Chillul Hashem than Feldman?
Feldman was evil because she made the world think we were all dysfunctional and mad, those same people who hated on Feldman made a…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Internet Asifa organizer allegedly beat his own yeshiva students
Failed Messiah has a story about Rabbi Gottlieb, one of the main organizers of the Asifa, being involved in child abuse at a yeshiva…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Let the Asifa spoofs begin
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The pre-internet gedolim are helping us battle the yetzer harah
Sooner or later, all of the elder gedolim will be gone and we will be faced with a crisis, the crisis I speak of…
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Dating & Marriage
Japanese lab invents internet kissing machine
I'm not sure how I feel about kissing a machine that allows you to kiss folks over the internet, but I'm sure someone will…
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Israel
Haredi ads claim internet causes cancer
I'm not feeling well enough to write satire honestly, but news like this couldn't wait. Thanks to Gila who sent me the following piece…
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Jewish Life
The most interesting person I’ve ever met
I like meeting new people, I meet them in line at the coffee shop, while riding my bike, in shul or online, in recent…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Another lame attempt to blame going off the derech on the internet and “secular society”
Every few years or so, some publication in the frum community decides to do a big write up about how we are losing our…
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Yeshivish
Brooklyn yeshiva claims to be the frummest of them all
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the frummest of them all? One lone Brooklyn yeshiva has decided to outdo the the rest with yet…
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Jewish Life
Don’t worry I’m not dead, my internet is just down
Having no internet where I live has its advantages, I get sleep at a good time and have been able to make it to…
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Jewish Life
Jewish Ethics and the Internet: This Thursday at Twitter headquarters
Jewish Ethics and the Internet: How the Internet is Changing Human Relationships When: Thurs. February 11, 6 PM Where: Twitter Headquarters, 795 Folsom Street…
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Dating & Marriage
Did Google and Facebook kill blind dating?
I use Facebook and google to check up on potential dates, but honestly who doesn’t? Seriously this used to be a shady stalkerish tactic,…
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Jewish Life
Do you have any interesting spam stories?
As this blog has grown in popularity so has the amount of email, I have dealt with spam by unsubscribing to email lists I…