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A Close Encounter Of The Hateful Kind
Boo-YAH! The promised End of the World came and went and we’re all still here, ain’t we? But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t enraptured this weekend:After dropping off the kinder for their last Shalom School of the year to practice for their tribute to Debbie Friedman, I decided to that I needed a walk to the river to clear my ...
Read MoreA Chicken For Yom Kippur!
I know, Yom Kippur may not exactly be on your mind, but it’s on mine, as you can see! My daughter was looking for a quick project the other night at midnight! (Can you believe it? Not our normal schedule, we just were still not adjusted to the clock here…..and I’m still not, a week later, yawn…..) And so I ...
Read MoreA Bris It Is: Bennett Epstein’s Daughter Has a Boy
I had no idea how many Jewish attorneys I know. In the past week I received no less than twenty forwarded email messages from lawyers about US District Judge Kimba Wood’s decision to grant a recess in an ongoing court case if Bennett Epstein, one of the lawyers in the trial, becomes a grandfather to a baby boy. As I ...
Read MoreA Brand New “Jewess with Attitude”
Amid all the grandboys with their Tonka trucks, their Thomas the Tanks, and their Transformers, a tiny but distinctly female presence dropped into our lives six days ago.There lies our freshly minted grandgirl (Those eyes! Those toes! That tush!), cocooned in her ducky-print swaddle, cupid lips sucking the dreams of her last feeding.This is a child who was born knowing ...
Read More99 things I do even though I know they are wrong
I literally just thought of this post as I watching this hilarious video of Wanda Sykes talking about gay marriage, it got me thinking about how many videos I watch on a daily basis which are halachically questionable, I’m not even talking about pornography, I’m talking about hot girls ranting about twitter or the Wanda Sykes video mentioned above which ...
Read More8th Night of Hanukkah
Last night was the final candle lighting of the eight-day Hanukkah holiday. It was also the only night that I didn’t have a chance to light the menorah with my children. I went straight from a private tutoring session to teach an adult education class, grabbing a quick bite to eat in between.When I returned home at 9:30 p.m., my ...
Read More70 modern orthodox things
I’m kind of having fun with these lists and as many of you know I’m not one to settle for just 1 list, when I make lists I make them for every sect of Jew and ironically this is the first list series that has stemmed from a post about non-Jews. 99% of these ideas have been talked about in ...
Read More7 Rules Of Mindful Eating
Choose, Sit, Commit, Acknowledge, Pace, Chew, CompleteA Taste of Authentic Jewish Eating: Eating mindfully doesn’t just involve your brain-based intellect. It involves your heart-based intellect, both of which, in different ways, correspond to the soul. In the Jewish tradition, mindful eating means making informed choices not only about what you eat, but also about the way in which you eat–the ...
Read More61 really frum things
When I asked for ideas on Facebook (click the link to add me as a friend) for the following list people got it all wrong, they suggested long sentence type of things and I was really looking for one word answers. Although all of the other answers I received got me thinking about future lists I can do regarding the ...
Read More5 Years Ago I Was an Atheist, Then I Was Brainwashed by Chabad!
A few weeks ago there was an article on a chabad website titled 5 Years Ago I was An Atheist and it ticked a whole slew of people off. Now being the pot stirrer that I am, I read through the article and tried desperately to figure out why so many people were banging down my door and filling my ...
Read More5 ways that frum women can empower themselves
Frum and Feminsim are two words that are typically not used in the same sentence and when they are, it is to ridicule or accuse someone of not being frum because they have feminist tendencies, for instance Sara Hurwitz the first orthodox Rabbi isn’t frum because she shows her ervah – not her boobs, but her bangs. Everyone likes a ...
Read More44 reasons to go off the Derech
At some point in the near future I should do a serious list of the things that make people go off the derech, not that this isn’t serious, but it’s just for fun and not detailed. There are a lot of good reasons to go off the derech and a lot of things that make people go off the derech, ...
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