Tag: Yarmulkes
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Jewish Life
Are 4 section velvet yarmulkes too modernishe?
I always felt like I've exhausted everything you could possibly write about yarmulkes. I've approached it from the place on your head where you…
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Jewish Life
Off the derech garage sale: Tefillin, hats, tzitzis, etc
Hey Hesh, I'm a long time reader of your blog and I have a bunch of interesting stuff for sale that you or maybe…
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Jewish Life
The wikipedia yarmulke chart
Hat Tip to Talia for alerting me to this amazing chart in the Wikipedia page for Yarmulkes Image Type Movement Crocheted Religious Zionism ,…
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Jewish Life
What is the most neutral of yarmulkes
In typical Heshy fashion I had a pretty intense argument this past shabbos about which yarmulke is the most politically neutral of all. For…
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Jewish Life
My new haircut
I didn't actually shave my head, but I was driving to work last Tuesday and it was hot, really hot out - like close…
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Jewish Life
Black velvet yarmulkes make you more religious
It’s official -- wearing a black velvet makes you smarter and more likely to be fervent in your religious practices, says a new study…
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Jewish Life
How do kiruv rabbis explain that bobby pins aren’t frum?
I have been wondering if part of a kiruv rabbis job training is when and how to tell the people he is being makarev…
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Food & Kashrus
Why I love being an orthodox Jew
Once in a while I get a comment that asks me why I poke fun at orthodox Jews and Judaism when I can just…
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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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Israel
Jimmy Carter Forced to Apologize to Jews, AIPAC Celebrates Job Well Done
And the Jews had light, and happiness, and joy and honor. Yes, we had all those things and more when President Jimmy Carter sheepishly…
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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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Israel
Kipah Sruga Burning in Bnei Brak
Thousands of Charedim gathered today to protest a new Hesder Yeshiva being build within the city limits of Bnei Brak. They burnt dumpsters filled…
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Jewish Life
On people who remove their yamrulkes when entering a bar
I found this post on Material Maidels blog about two guys she and her friend went to a club with that removed their yarmulkes…
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Jewish Life
Do people wash their yarmulkes?
Someone told me that its something I have never written about, but when you think of it the yarmulke is a pretty dirty article…
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Shul Life
I went to my first Egalitarian minyan and it was interesting
I think the last time I put on something that I would have called shabbos shorts was in the mid 1980’s, you know, those…
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Israel
You can wear any color yarmulke you want as long as its black
I thought I was being clever with this...
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Jewish Life
Changing your yarmulke style is not that easy
Yarmulkes are kind of like TV remotes, you lose them once in a while and go freaking crazy. Our TV remote would get lost…
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Yeshivish
What does Yeshivish mean to you?
What is yeshivish? I am consistently wondering what on earth yeshivish means. Does it mean you attend yeshiva, if so one who went to…
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Rabbis, Bans & Chumras
My first shabbos in Dallas
For those of you with ADD I warn you that this post is over 5 pages long- but I love it because this type…
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Yeshivish
Judging people based on the way they wear their yamrulkes
Someone can probably write a book on yarmulkes, after all they are the most identifying aspect of someone Jewish and male, sometimes female as…
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Chassidim & Chabad
Should there be a dress code at the Kotel?
So I snapped the following picture at the kotel and it made a ruckus on my Facebook album of Israel pictures (I intend to…
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Yeshivish
Is double headcoverings a myth?
Back in the day when I used to ask the point in wearing a hat or a black velvet yarmulke, I used to get…