Tag: letters to the editor
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Salad and healthy lifestyles are bad for the frum community
Dear Heshy, I loved your post yesterday about positive changes within the frum community. I find myself wondering why no one seems to focus…
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Yeshivish
How do we shield our son from the hypocrisy in his yeshiva?
Dear Heshy, We send out son to one of the finest out of town yeshivas, but recently I've learned that he's being exposed to…
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Jewish Life
RE: Avrohom Meir Weiss
To the author of this blog, I have never read your blog before, but I wonder if you realize the grave sin of loshon…
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Jewish Life
Dear Heshy: Can one actually be frum if they live out of town?
Dear Heshy, I know that you live out of town and consider yourself frum, so I hope that you and your out of town…
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Yeshivish
Letter to the editor: Why make fun of yeshivish people so much
Hi, I happen to run across your blog in doing a search for Pomegranate Supermarket. I read a few of your posts and I…
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Jewish Life
Dear R’ Heshy: Is it muttar to lie to get into government programs?
Dear R’ Heshy, Seeing as how you have such a learned, balanced and thoughtful outlook on life, and seeing as how your readership has…
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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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Israel
Dear Heshy: Why don’t you support Israel?
Apparently it wasn't just the folks in the comments who took my very sarcastic comment about Israel seriously. Check out this email I received…
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Jewish Life
Tikkun Olam is not Jewish Value
Hey Hesh, Huge fan here and I have a question that's been bothering me ever since I started reading your blog. I'm sure that…
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Israel
Anti-segregationists target synagogues
Dear Heshy, I write to you from Israel - this is my view as a religious person who is deeply disturbed by the growing…
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Dating & Marriage
You know you’re a BT in seminary when…
I love flattery, especially when it comes from seminary girls who spend their days learning how to be good balebustah's and their nights reminiscing…
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Jewish Life
RE: Are there any hot girls reading this?
Dear Heshy, I read your blog regularly and I just wanted to ask you a question concerning the supposedly shallow post about your friends…
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Dating & Marriage
Sort of off the derech and looking for a shidduch
Sometime ago I posted about how I would love to set up folks who were off the derech, but looking for someone who is…
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Dating & Marriage
How do I tell a shadchan I want a girl with a huge rack?
This may be one of the funniest shidduch advice questions I have ever received, I find it even funnier because the guy sending it…
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Jewish Life
Dear Heshy: Why are frum Jews so unhealthy?
Dear Heshy, I am sure you can relate to this, as you and I are both very physically active and health conscious. I have…
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Jewish Life
I used to be a frum Christian and now I want to convert to Judaism
Heshy, Although I'm not Jewish I've been keeping track of your blog for a while now and it's helped me map out the orthodox…
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Jewish Life
Letter to the editor: Frum Satire was never frum
By Lurker that never comments Every time Heshy decides to share with us some insight into his daily hashkafic struggles people go ape shit,…
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Jewish Life
Letter to the editor: I am not Jewish but my boyfriend is orthodox
This was sent to me via email and she gave me permission to post it: So I watch all your videos on youtube and…
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Jewish Life
Letter to the editor: We live in NJ but the Jews are so boring and materialistic
Reading your blogs has given me confidence that you may be able to help in our logistical dilemma of where the hell we are…
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Jewish Life
RE: Is the word Goy offensive? Good comment from a non-Jew
This was posted the other day in response to the post Is the word goy offensive? Hello all, I’m not sure if this will…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Dear people of Boro Park
Dear people of Boro Park - sent to me via email I'll admit, growing up in a modern orthodox community, I've always thought of…
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Shul Life
Letter to the editor: Judaism is too strict
One thing that bothers me about modern Judaism is the continuous shift to the strict and serious. When my father was a kid and…
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Lag B’Omer, Tu B’Shvat & Friends
Letters to the editor: shomer negiah
Every once in a while I publish hate mail I receive, but rarely do I publish the fan mail - which thank the Lord…