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And who says all frummies are right wing and think alike.  Check out the latest YouTube video from FrumSatire. This guy continuously cracks me up.  I don’t know, I guess I really like dry, sarcastic humor.
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At the half way mark into Pesach I am a little late posting this, but as they say better late than never! I stumbled on this great video over on the meaningfullife.com site while looking for some Omer Counting resources (BTW I will also be getting to a post on the Omer and yup [...]

This morning Avi and I will be finishing our final Pesach preparations.  This means  cleaning the final two rooms of our apartment; our eating area, and the kitchen.  Cleaning for Pesach is no laughing matter. It requires some planning, some patience, and time. 
As we all prepare, in whichever ways each of us do, I’m [...]

A friend just e-mailed this to me, and I wanted to pop it up really quick to share. I have to admit that my knowledge of U.S. rabbis is pretty weak. I concern myself so much with the great dead teachers (Rashi, Maimonides, etc.) that I seem to forget to look in my own backyard [...]

I just came across this interesting article about a fellow who is trying to convert in Israel (the only “true” way to convert these days) and who was asked a sort of peculiar question (at least, in my mind): Do you believe that the Lubavitcher rebbe is the messiah? His answer was more or [...]

My rabbi is not a great scholar and he’d be the first to admit it. (Let me just say right off that he is no slouch either. He knows his way around the Torah, the Talmud, and the Shulchan Aruch well enough to guide me and the rest of his congregants pretty well.) He comes [...]

[Please forgive the gender chauvinism, but it’s just easier for me to use the masculine form in writing. Please know that everything in this post goes for women as well.]
Hanging around the Chabadniks I’ve had a lot of exposure to the Tanya, Lubavitch Chasidism’s central text of chassidus written by Chabad’s founder Schneur Zalman of [...]

Read Part One here.
My last post about my little shul was a litany of criticisms, all valid and true, about Chabad-Lubavitch in particular and the black-hat world in general. I ended that post with the question: if I feel that way about them, how can I affiliate with them? I am now going to [...]

I take a certain amount of flack for being a member of a Chabad shul. The few friends I have who are engaged enough with their Judaism to care about such things don’t understand it and I don’t blame them. I don’t totally understand it myself and I get very uncomfortable when we talk about [...]