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Frum Jewish Porn Titles

I know many of you think that frum and porn in the same sentence are impossible, but hear me out. It’s only natural for people to enjoy pornographic videos of their own kind. I am not condoning porn, it’s assur and I would never encourage anyone to watch porn. I have never watched porn – but based on the fact ...

Crochet A Floral Hot Pad For Spring (Shavuos? Mother’s Day? Today?)

I was intrigued by a crocheted potholder/hotpad like this that I spotted last year, but just couldn’t locate the pattern. So I forgot all about it until last night when I came across the same project and the pattern and just had to give it a try during the late night hours when everyone else was fast asleep! (That might ...

If the girl’s ugly, just pretend you’re the deliveryman

My buddy has a problem — he tends to get set up with ugly girls. This problem is multiplied by the fact that he lives in the middle of nowhere and has to fly 4 hours into New York City for what he calls Shidduch Marathons. During these marathons, he frequently goes to girls houses to pick them up.Read More: @ ...

In Memory Of Our Fallen Soldiers

During the time of the Bar Kochba revolt against the Romans, a plague killed 24,000 students of our great sage, Rabbi Akiva, in this seven week period between Passover and Shavuot. Over the centuries, the Jewish People experienced many more tragedies (massacres, pogroms, …) during this seven week period. To commemorate these tragedies, we observe a period of semi-mourning during ...

Stuff Israeli Sephardim like

I know nothing about sephardic Israelis, luckily someone sent this post to me via email, she wished to remain anonymous – and since I really don’t know if it’s accurate I will let you folks decide. This is coming from a woman who lives in Israel and is married to a hardcore Sephardic Israeli dude.Read More: @ Frum Satire

Today is Yom Hazikaron in Eretz Yisroel

Yom Hazikron is the day on which Israel honors its war veterans. National memorial services are held in the presence of Israel’s top leadership and military personnel. The day opens the preceding evening at 20:00 (8:00 pm), given that in the Hebrew calendar system days begin at sunset, with a siren. The siren is heard all over the country and ...

What Does the Rabbinical Council of America Think of Women?

When I first moved to San Francisco, there was a huge outcry in the Orthodox community — a positive outcry, that is. Apparently, out of all the synagogues (Reform, Orthodox, Renewal, independent, and otherwise), only one had a female president — the Orthodox synagogue. The local Jewish paper had called her the first female president of an Orthodox synagogue, which, ...

Abby Phon thinks primetime is ready to “go green”

We have seen our fair share of crime dramas, medical dramas and political dramas. Is it time for a new genre? Abby Phon, Executive Producer and star of Life Without Green, is on a mission to bring environmental issues to primetime.Life Without Green is a drama about a young Jewish woman’s struggle to keep her unraveling life together after her fiance vanishes in ...

Stuff right wing modern orthodox Jews like

Modern orthodoxy is really such a pain in the neck group to write about these days. Back in the 80’s and early 90’s there was just plain old modern orthodox. The women wore pants and the men played ball on Shabbos – you didn’t see too many seforim lying around the house and the living room was devoted to a ...

Hipsters, Hasids and the war over women’s bodies

I am neither Hasid or hipster, yet I am linked to both fringe communities in different ways. Every generation has a counter-culture, and every religion has a fundamentalist extreme. The hipsters are my friends, and the Hasids are my tribe. They both live in the same neighborhood in New York City, and they are at war over women’s bodies and ...

Holocaust Handbag

I have never actually cared about purses. I will ooh and ahh over a nice pair of earrings, and I think fashion is interesting, if crazy, but I think the amount of money people spend on bizarre looking handbags is a mark of complete insanity. Still, I recognize that there are people who care a lot about this stuff, and ...

Matisyahu Is Vegan

The Hasidic singer Matisyahu {our interview with him here} recently tweeted that he’d gone vegan.The astute blog HeebNVegan, not one to let such things pass idly by, hit him up for one of their infamous Four Questions interviews (he’d also put me under the gun a few weeks before). Matisyahu qualified the statement — “I’m not exactly vegan, not religiously ...