What is considered Jewish music?

I read this post concerning the efinition of Jewish music. Since he quoted Anthrax and Living Colour songs and I am a metal head I found it quite entertaining as well as bringing up the age old arguement about how Shlock Rock and regular music is really one and the same. He also brings up [...]

Rant: Shull Talkers

The Rabbi stops the davening to wait for a bunch of people who are talking in shull. The baakl koreh stops laining to wait for a few rude, non-G-d fearing folks who feal talking about their new sheitle or some reality TV show is more important then listening to the torah reading. The board of [...]

Facebook and Craigslist can be used to Make Shidduchim

I have posted many times my ideas on how more people could suggest shidduchim and usually they are shot down by the classic frummy comment of “we just don’t do things that way” to which I reply that the whole point of my post is to break the status quo in the frum world and [...]

A tribute to the Cars I have owned

My first car was a 1992 Toyota Camary given to me by my father. It looked like a  POS to put it nicely but worked quite well. I cant remember how many miles were on it, but I basically drove it into the ground and then purchased a nicer vehicle for my road trip adventures. [...]

A story of the Rambam and judging your fellow Jew

On the 4 mile walk to shull for mincha yesterday my roommate old me an interesting story about the Rmabam I thought to be related to many of my judging posts. I have recently been writing the different ways in which Jews judge each other and basically posting them to show their foolishness and well [...]

Pesach Hotel Memories

Pesach was coming up and we were going to a hotel for the whole thing. Usually somewhere pretty exciting, none of the traditional Florida stuff, my father hates Florida, oh the heat and the humidity he would complain and then rant about how he doesn’t want to just hang out on the beach all day, [...]