onionsoupmix

I'm Getting Done

onionsoupmix Nov 05, 2011 23:33

I've been blogging here for a long time, as blogs go, about six years.

It's been a very useful, helpful outlet, but all good things must come to an end and I'm starting to think about finishing up.

First, the nature of my questions are changing. I am spending more time discussing local social issues and less time on larger intellectual or halachic ( Read more... )

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I canceled the sleepover

onionsoupmix Oct 15, 2011 23:42

My 8 year old was going to have a sleepover for her birthday party. It was a big deal, with lots of planning and excitement. Making cupcakes, seeing a movie, getting their nails done, etc.

We invited a few kids from the neighborhood, one of them was our secular ( possibly not Jewish?) next door neighbor's kid, a cute second grader.

Today, one of my ( Read more... )

gentiles, family, chinuch, morality, community

A Short Story

onionsoupmix Oct 05, 2011 00:23

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short story, animals, tishrei, rabbis

Tznius Round Up

onionsoupmix Sep 25, 2011 22:22

Many websites have tznius-related posts this week. I'll sum them up for you and then ask my Rosh Hashanah question.

Matzav Tznius Article Here. Summary: Having women join hatzalah for ob-gyn emergencies would be immodest. It is a breach of tznius standards. Better let the men deliver babies.

Collive Tznius Article Here: Summary : I was harassed ( Read more... )

Is it Only a Matter of Time?

onionsoupmix Sep 21, 2011 01:05

The parallels between the rise of Early Christianity and what is going on in some factions of Chabad is well known and has been extensively written and argued about by people with more knowledge that I have.

What is less known because it is maybe just beginning is the weirdish cult-like following starting behind Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin. It's one ( Read more... )

meshichism, chabad, rebbe, rubashkin

I guess it could have been worse.

onionsoupmix Sep 11, 2011 11:27

Some people asked how the conversation with the principal went. I guess it could have been worse ( Read more... )

education, conservative, gentiles, when moshiach comes..., chinuch, tznius

People Should Know

onionsoupmix Sep 07, 2011 21:32

My friend from Israel is going through a very rough time. She recently left a terrible marriage, complete with mental and physical abuse.

She waited until she couldn't take it anymore, sold her jewelry, took her three children and moved out. Her husband refused to give her a get and also refused to get a job. After she left, she had to pay him ( Read more... )

crazy, agunah, women, chareidi, rabbis, emunas chachomim

Two Days and the Brainwashing Has Begun

onionsoupmix Sep 04, 2011 01:29

This past week was Parshas Shoftim and so in parsha class this past Friday, my daughter learned about the Jewish legal system ( Read more... )

education, conservative, hashkafa, chinuch, rubashkin

Smile for the Camera :)

onionsoupmix Aug 31, 2011 00:53

One funny article here. Rabbi Ashkenazi from Kfar Chabad has run out of options to solve The Tznius Crisis and so now he will take pictures of immodest women and have his wife (of course) review the photos and speak to the young ladies in question.

Yeah. The comments are split down the middle, with about half thinking this is the best idea since ( Read more... )

women, chabad, tznius

FML and Also Gam Zu LeTova

onionsoupmix Aug 24, 2011 21:52

There are three Orthodox schools here. One is far, far, far right of center. The girls get married before high school has ended and the school publishes its own text books so that no one should ever read about divorced parents or boyfriends. That school was out of the question for us.

Then there is the school that is just plain old right of center ( Read more... )

hashkafa, chinuch