Tag: shabbos
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Shul Life
Do you actually know the people in your community?
I heard recently that one of the members of my shul, who I've known for years is a heavily into gardening, a bit of…
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Music, Movies & Pop Culture
The muktza song
It escapes me as to who sent me this, I like it and I finally found the time to share it with you folks.…
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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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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
How does your community deal with Nebach’s?
I was walking home Friday night and I noticed that one of the Nebs of our shul was walking home without a meal, I…
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Jewish Life
Would you break shabbos for $1000?
I always figured that the Off The Derech community was immune to scandal, after all many of the members had left Orthodoxy due to…
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Shul Life
Makom Kavua Wars
For the second shabbos in a row my seat in shul was taken, in fact it's been taken all week and I kind of…
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Food & Kashrus
I miss the Cholent Moshpit
There are certian things I miss about the east coast, shoving matches at kiddush is one of them. In my shul, everyone waits for…
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Jewish Life
Has anyone ever tried to steal your shabbos guests?
I had a run in with shabbos guest theft for the first time this past shabbos, one of the fellows staying at my house…
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Shul Life
10 ways to know you’re in a Modern Orthodox shul without going into shul
Anyone with a kindergarten level of Jewish education can tell they're in a modern orthodox shul, the mechitza, the seating style, the siddurim, the…
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Jewish Life
The secrets of frum hospitality
By Chaya Miriam Fried I don’t know if you ever got a chance to stay at a Marriott Hotel, but they have their signature…
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Food & Kashrus
Shalosh Seuda doesn’t have to suck
The shaloshudos (the third meal, aka seudat shlishit for the Hebrew inclined) of my youth was finely a pretty gross affair, ice cream scoops…
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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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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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Food & Kashrus
The great kugel debate: Is it cake or kugel?
Since food is one of the most important aspects of the frum community, it's no wonder that the great kugel vs. cake debate is…
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Food & Kashrus
The milchigs on shabbos conundrum
Background story: I hate to admit it, but the frum Jews on the West Coast don't really know how to practice real frumkeit. They…
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Shul Life
Should shuls be welcoming places?
I used to judge a shuls friendliness factor purely based on the amount of meal invites I received during davening. I used to come…
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Food & Kashrus
Using my expert mooching skills for good
If there's one thing I'm good at life, it's getting shabbos meals, break-fast meals, shabbos leftovers, places to sleep in far flung towns and…
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Shul Life
Why on earth does shabbos davening take 3 hours?
People were literally freaking out yesterday, you see, the regular old Modern Orthodox shul in San Francisco ended shabbos morning davening at 11:15 instead…
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Shul Life
I found some yeshivish people in the Bay Area
Upon finishing shemona esrei I saw something that I haven't seen in a long time. There was a fellow with his hat pushed back…
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Food & Kashrus
21 necessary evils of the frum community
They say that government and taxes are two necessary evils whether we like it or not. The frum community also has a lot of…
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Jewish Life
Shabbat shalom vs. Good Shabbos
I like to consider myself a Jewish profiler. I remember when everyone was going nuts over racial profiling in airports. I used to do…
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Food & Kashrus
Are you a JFK-Jew (just for kiddush)
I’m not sure popular the term JFK-Jew is but it means Just For Kiddush. For the record I have never been a Just for…
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Jewish Life
What??? They served milchigs on shabbos!!!
I bet you didn't know that one of the worst things for a families reputation is to serve milchigs (Dairy) on shabbos. I also bet…