Repeat after me. He is exalted and His name is Holy and all believe that He is the faithful God and may He bring our exiled from distant lands up to His holy mountain and we shall ever glorify Him in the shrine of His sanctuary for having remembered His sacred promise, O holy one. He is mighty and awesome. He spoke and it came to be. His ( Read more... )

From here:

My 12 year old Charedi daughter came in to me this evening and asked me if husbands and wives are allowed to hug and kiss.
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I don't know why more people aren't anti-semitic. Maybe they just don't read enough Jewish websites.

Some nanny in Crown Heights was seen buying a child an ice-cream. It wasn't even clear whether the ice-cream was not kosher or just cholov stam.  Here are some of the resulting comments:

* the goy that is trustable is rare

*Women do you understand ( Read more... )

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Here is link #1. It is about Lakewood Yeshivos in Crisis. This is the 2nd or 3rd school to shut down due to lack of funding.

Here is link #2. It is about how one single Lakewood  fundraising rally resulted in  $250,000.00 for Shalom Rubashkin's  attorneys.

How does this work? I don't get it. What am I missing?

In November of 2006, Lynne Meredith Schreiber authored an article  about mikvah and niddah, entitled Why Orthodox Jews May Have the Hottest Sex Lives.

Here's what she wrote:   "I've always been Jewish, but I didn't become Orthodox until I was in my twenties. I chose this way of living because I liked the way Orthodox husbands looked at their wives- ( Read more... )

I do eventually have some serious things I want to talk about, but here's a little video I can't resist sharing with you all just now.

I know you all don't have time to watch videos from Aish all day, so I'll just sum it up for you. It's some helpful advice for those of you currently in the market for cleaning help.   Instead of just cleaning up ( Read more... )

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

Rubashkin and his supporters have a new cause. Ezagui, the guy who swindled at least 40 families out of their homes and is presently on house arrest,  is the latest tzedaka case.

I sure am hoping you all will be donating generously to the latest frum felon. In case you have forgotten, it is a mitzvah d'oraisah ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about adultery all day. It's pretty confusing, actually.

Take Mei Sotah for example. Here's the Rambam's run down of how it works. Pretty wild.

But the craziest part is that she doesn't have to drink the water. She can refuse to drink it or admit her guilt and then she gets a divorce and loses her kesuba money. No drinking the ( Read more... )

About a month ago, I wrote a post about the state of women's education in chabad.

So it seems  that the state of men's education in chabad is not much better.  From this post in this thread:

Most guys cannot learn Gemara at all. Most guys don't know any hebrew grammar. Most guys can't learn any chassidus beyond sichos and maamarim of the Rebbe; and ( Read more... )