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Hey Ahron Friedman – Just Give her the Mothertrucking Get Already

A social-media campaign is being waged to pressure Rep. Dave Camp to encourage a top staffer to grant his wife a Jewish divorce, and the lawmaker restricted public posts on his Facebook page after a flood of comments about the issue.Camp, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, employs a staff member, Aharon Friedman, who is the subject of intense anger from some in ...

Henry Frisch’s Maxwell House Haggadah Beats out the new one by the Trendy Novelists Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander

Our neighbor Henry Frisch (he lives mamash on our block in Teaneck) has beaten out the two hoity toity hotsy totsy novelists who have published a really strange new Haggadah this year.According to the Times, none other than the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has considered the Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander Haggadah and has rejected it ...

Help Yitz Reach His Triathlon Goal in Memory of Rabbi Zev Zahavy to Help Victims of Terror

My son Yitz says, “This year I will dedicate my race to my grandfather Rabbi Dr. Zev Zahavy of blessed memory. He passed away on May 1 at the age of 93. He was a great swimmer, biker and runner; he was a triathlete before there were triathlons. He was a strong supporter of my efforts to raise awareness for ...

Help Tamar Heal

Like you, I’m one of the many of the readers of this blog. A few weeks ago, someone attacked this blog suggesting this was all a chillul hashem, and that we are all destined to hell. You all fought back by taking the time to comment and show that we have a virtual community here of people who care. Some here are frum, some ...

Help! My Child Hates Reading!

Question:My daughter is a wonderful girl, does fine in school, and helps a lot around the house. The problem is that she hates reading. She’d rather sit on the couch and do nothing. She loves going shopping, which also concerns me. I try to explain that we only go shopping when there is something specific we need, but she isn’t ...

Help – I need a new car so I can get married

I went on my first northern California date the other day and guess what? My car almost died. It overheated and we had to stand around picking blackberries on the side of a dirt road before I could get it started again. I need a new one and I’m asking you – the loyal fan who gets free enterainment day in and ...

Hebrew University’s Sarcasm Detector One of Year’s Best Inventions (Time Magazine)

Jews aren’t sarcastic at all!Okay, that was me being sarcastic, but the problem with the Jewish tradition of sarcasm is that it doesn’t translate well in Cyberspace where tone of speech doesn’t come through in text. That’s why it makes sense that the ability for computers to detect sarcastic speech has been developed in the Jewish homeland.Time Magazine’s recent issue ...

Hebrew National Hot Dogs: Questioning Higher Authority

A 2004 article in the Jewish Daily Forward proclaimed that “Hebrew National became the unchallenged king of the kosher meat industry by marketing its product to non-Jews with the help of several catchy advertising slogans, including the famous, ‘We answer to a higher authority.’ But its success masked a bizarre twist: Most kosher consumers won’t eat the company‘s products.”Read More: @ ...

Hebrew Hammer Hinders Homer Hobbling Home

Ryan Braun, known as the “Hebrew Hammer”, is having a remarkable year. The Milwaukee Brewers’ All-Star left fielder, who was the National League’s Rookie of the Year in 2007, has 25 home runs so far this season. He’s also on his way to becoming one of the best Jewish players Major League Baseball has ever seen. He’s also helping his ...

Hear O Bieber

As a lifelong Justin Bieber fan, I really should have written about this the day this little nugget of news came out.Apparently, before every concert (which correlates to almost every night), Justin Bieber, pop star extraordinaire, says the Shema. In other words, Justin Bieber says the Shema more often than I do.Where in the world would the Biebs learn the ...

He Who Has Sinned Can Teach

In his book, Rebbes and Chassidim: What they said what they meant, Rabbi Abraham Twerski, M.D. quotes the following from King Solomon: “It is better to hear the rebuke of a wise man than one who hears the song of simpletons” (Ecclesiastes 7:5). Twerski writes that Rabbi Bunim of Pschis’che pointed out that this translation of the verse is inaccurate. ...

Hazon: You know it’s crunchy when I’m the cleanest dude there

I had the pleasure of attending the Hazon Food Conference this past weekend near Petaluma and I’m sure all of you want to hear about the far left Jewish environmental movement, because it sure was funny, especially when you consider that I was one of the most observant and clean cut people there.Which means that I was surrounded by a ...