Satire
Der Judenstaat – FINAL (3).doc
Hear me out. (No good idea ever started with that, did it?)
What if the entire...
The Sweetness of Melons
"Never was there as happy a time," the Mishna says, "than Tu B’av. Because on...
Mai Hai
Fear.
It was the name of the entire minority.
There are Blacks, there are Hispanics, there are...
The Smiling Rabbi
Interesting anecdote about this book cover. It's a composite of two different Rabbi faces, i.e....
What is Aish Hatorah? Is Aish a cult?
Aish Hatorah, or Aish, as it eventually changed its name to be in order to...
Teabagging
There is a tradition, at the Eisenkopp Yeshiva for Fine Young Men, that when you...
Book Covers
Good news: if you have money, even being A Good Jew in The Eyes of God™ is easier.
Instead of slaving away getting your house clean for Passover, just sell your house to a non-Jew (awesome loophole, Rabbis!) and go to the nearest tropical resort you can find. There, you...
Having grown up deeply ingrained in the Orthodox Jewish world view, it’s a constant process for me to re-examine what I was taught. Some things obviously rubbed me the wrong way, and I questioned them as part of my journey.
Other things were less aggravating, so I simply accepted them...
Hear me out.
You know how Song of Songs, that legendary work of erotic poetry by the wisest of all men, is not actually at all erotic poetry? It's actually a metaphor for God's love for the Jewish people? It's actually the holiest book ever, by virtue of the old...
Biography
Philosphy
The Spirit and The Letter
Overall Judaism doesn't concern itself as much with attitude. It's mostly about endless laws that you either...
God’s Not Mad, He’s Just Judging You
One word:
Eluuuuuuuuuuuuuuul
Fiction
How to Write a Frum Novel
This was a post I wrote in my teens, while I was still very much religious. As you can see, I was still very...
Kiruv
The 80s get a bad rap. For synth music and terrible fashion. Generalized away in three syllables, faster than you can say, well, The 80s.
The decades before it are nostalgic.
60s – when rebellion was first invented.
70s – when it was perfected, exploding with psychedelia and bellbottoms and afros.
But the 80s, I have come to realize, had a lot of...
Yeedle Kugelmacher was a pedophile.
Not those shady, creepy people who need to register as sex offenders.
He was of the Rabbi-therapist variety.
You know that whole catholic priest stereotype? Kind of like that, but you need to swap out Catholicism with a different set of arcane beliefs.
Now, before you go accusing him of being a monster, remember:...