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Frum, fashion, and feminism

Jewish designers are a staple on the fashion scene – famous names like Zac Posen, Isaac Mizrahi, Max Azria, Kenneth Cole, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Michael Kors, Diane Von Furstenberg, Ralph Lauren are all members of the tribe. A few years ago, Slate even published a story called “The Rise of Schmatte Chic”, which chronicled the fleeting trend of Orthodox ...

Frum dating websites create the Mamzer category

Mamzerim have it tough, many people who consider themselves another statistic of the shidduch crisis don;t really have it bad, they are just too picky, but what’s a guy or girl to do if they don’t have the same choice that everyone else has? Frumster and other dating sites like Saw You At Sinai and Jwed have decided to add ...

Frum Acronyms you should know

We frum folk are constantly using acronyms, on this here blog you may read terms like BT and FFB dozens of times before you actually figure out what they are (lots of non-religious Jews ask me.Even after you figure out what certian acronyms stand for, you may not actually find out what they truly mean – because many of them ...

Frozen Chozen Kosher Ice Cream

Move over Soy Vay sauces. Chozen is a new kosher ice cream with mix-ins that would make Tevye happy. Rugelach, coconut-almond macaroon and chocolate matzo are the flavors, all swirled in a fine vanilla ice cream base with no gums or stabilizers. It started as a kitchen table concoction by Ronne Fisher and her daughters, Meredith Fisher and Isabelle Krishana.Read ...

From Mashgiachs to the new Jewish food movement: “Kosher Nation” by Sue Fishkoff

When you choose to purchase a jar of peanut butter with a hecksher on it or kosher chicken, you become one of the final elements in the long journey that the particular foodstuff undertook in order to be certified as kosher. It can be easy to take this process for granted when you are receiving these things in their final ...

From Informing to Inculcating

There has been much attention given lately to the “crisis of connection”. We are a generation where the observant community is more informed than any before (perhaps since King Chizkiyahu; c.f. Sanhedrin 94b), but we mourn our lack of the kind of connection with the Almighty that came more readily to our parents and grandparents. We have started exploring ways ...

Friday Social Media BliNtz (Week 2)

Welcome to week two of the Friday Social Media BliNtz— like a blitz but tastier.So, this week in the media, the social and the science intersect when Harvard med student Ilana Yurkiewicz blogs about a groundbreaking study lead by Corinne Moss-Racusin and colleagues, which reveals that gender bias in science is real.An important take-away from Yurkiewicz’s analysis in the Scientific American: Both male ...

Friday Social Media BliNtz (Week 1)

Welcome to the Friday Social Media BliNtz- it’s like a media blitz, but tastier.Here, on a virtual silver platter, are some current event noshes you might enjoy.A Hillary We Can Believe In (The Daily Beast)Author Andrew Sullivan shares a few choice quotes from “the people” in regards to their changing (evolving?) perceptions of Hillary Clinton. Ask yourself when you read Sullivan’s ...

Fress. Kvetch. Shtup.

Your life is a mess. You’re tired of the routine, you’re constantly craving more of what you’ve already attained, and you find true satisfaction in nothing and in no one. Well here’s the quick fix:Plan an expensive get-away.No, actually, scratch that—plan three expensive get-aways.But it’s not just the location that’s getting to you. You’re also sick of your significant other. ...

Fostering An Interest In Vegetables: Visit A “Vegetable Museum”!

What about New Zealand horn melon? (Note to my readers from New Zealand: do you eat this?)Let’s face it, most of us, including myself, are really quite uninformed when it comes to all the amazing types of fruits and vegetables that are grown and eaten around the world. Fortunately for us, my mother finds things like this very interesting, and ...

Forward Loves Haggadot.com

The Forward reviews new haggadahs and they love the web site haggadot.com.We are confused by the site. And we are not exactly technically illiterate. Still we cannot figure out how to assemble a haggadah on this site.We think Google docs, for instance, offers a better platform for collaborative project of assembling a document like a custom haggadah.Read More: @ tzvee.blogspot.comReaders found ...

Former Arab Terrorist Poses as Tour Guide in Old City

A freed Arab terrorist poses as a tour guide and tell tourists that Old City Jews stole Arab homes, Jerusalem resident Aryeh King revealed to Israel National News.King, a former kibbutz member who lives in eastern Jerusalem, praised a new proposal that would bar non-Israelis from leading large tour groups. Israeli citizenship has been rejected by approximately 90 percent of the ...