Tag: mechitza
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Shul Life
Open orthodox Shul allows frummies to sit behind second taller mechitza
When you live in the frum community it always seems like there's this great partisan divide between us and them. Us being the frum…
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Dating & Marriage
I used to just go to shul just for the girls
Being married has its advantages, laundry more than once a month, home cooked meals, and not having to get tested for STD's every time…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Caption Contest: Ultra Orthodox Man wrapped in plastic on airplane
I hope you can come up with a good caption, because Heeb magazine took mine. It's an ultra orthodox delivery service that vacuum seals…
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Shul Life
10 Things I hate most about Modern Orthodox shuls
There's really so much to hate about davening in Modern Orthodox shuls, once you get past the joys of the super low mechitza and…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
The stupidest idea for a post in a long time
Every once in a while when I have nothing interesting to throw in my status update on Facebook, I'll ask if anyone has any…
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Food & Kashrus
Rabbis in Israel force restaurant without mechitzas to close
Charedi Rabbis in Israel, backed by Agudath Israel have decided that certain restaurants without mechitza's who serve women should lose their hashgacha. Warm Eating,…
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Shul Life
Using cell phones to look through the mechitza
There was a time not so long ago when looking over the mechitza meant merely turning your head, pretending to do a neck stretch…
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Shul Life
Shul Review: B’nai David Los Angeles
At some point I figured I should standardize the whole shul review thing. I could have a little form, which I fill out as…
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Shul Life
Mechitza guide of the Bay Area
One of these days I will have to do an all out guide to the Jewish situation in the Bay Area, for now you…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Brief history of mechitza’s
Mechitza literally means to divide, but did you know there is no where in the Torah where it says that men and women cannot…
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Dating & Marriage
The So-shul network
Mt Sinai is one of the most interesting shuls I've been to, besides for having loads of eligible young and cute ladies, their mechitza…
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Dating & Marriage
Best of Shul Awards
I was sitting in Adath Israel in San Francisco this past shabbos afternoon in their weekday shul and it came to me that they…
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Dating & Marriage
The Mission Minyan: If Orthodox and Egalitarian were possible
We walked in during pisukei d’zimra and there was already a large crowd of people gathered. I took a seat all the way to…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
Shabbos in San Jose
The Rabbi was yeshivish, clearly so because he used words that most of the shul didn’t understand, caught himself, and then said the English…
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Dating & Marriage
Friday night adventures at the Young Israel of Hillcrest (Queens)
If the man didn’t hand me a siddur I don’t think I would have found them, I asked him where they were and without…
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Shul Life
Observance level has nothing do with the friendliness of a shul
Some folks express dismay that shuls aren’t as friendly as they could be, but I kind of expect shuls to be unfriendly places where…
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Shul Life
What exactly are women doing behind the mechitza?
I was thinking just the other day about women in shul, well I am always thinking about women in shul, but this was different.…
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Shul Life
Shaare Tefillah – Dallas shul reviews
I thought I was through with Dallas, I really did, one last shabbos and I would be out of here occasionally passing through to…
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Dating & Marriage
Things I love about shabbos
The complimentary post to last weeks "annoying things that happen on shabbos" When people cut full slices of challah for you instead of those…
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Dating & Marriage
Staring at girls in the balcony hurts my neck
For those of you unfamiliar with the workings of the Upper West Side singles scene – Oheb Tzedek is the shul that you must…
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Dating & Marriage
Funny thoughts I had this shabbos
Frummies love to say "come have a mezonos" instead of "here eat a cookie" or "how about a pretzel". One of my fans pointed…
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Food & Kashrus
Have you ever eaten on Yom Kippor?
No I didn't break my fast, but as any person who can't concentrate on davening will tell you, you think about the most insane…
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Dating & Marriage
When the mechitza is too short
It doesn't leave much room for the imagination, and it doesn't allow for a strategy for looking over without being too obvious. Case in…