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

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... )

In an open forum on imamother, the ladies are discussing teenage puberty. One anonymous poster writes :

My brother was skipped a grade to start at Telshe Yeshiva days after his bar mitzvah. The ROSH YESHIVA told my parents to keep him out of the dorms because his social awkwardness and young age would make him a prime candidate for s-xual ( Read more... )

Here's the video and the imamother discussion about it.

A group of chassidim and Rabbi Sharon Kleinman are on opposite sides of the gay marriage debate. There are a lot of protesters at this rally and some of them are posing for pictures with their hands around each other. She poses with other men and other men pose with the chassidim and no one ( Read more... )

There's a new blog out there. The author is an anonymous 26 year old woman with 7 children who is currently pregnant with twins. She was raised in some sort of Jewish cult in which the father abused his daughters and the wife and everyone wore veils and females were not allowed to speak in the presence of males.

The entire blog is pretty ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to write about the latest Women Don't Exist scandal at all, because the frum blogosphere had sufficiently discussed it to death, but now the mainstream media has caught on so here's my take on this.

Judaism is like a tablecloth, I recently heard. If you pull too much on one corner, we all know what happens to the other side.  People ( Read more... )

In case you haven't heard, Eli Federman is the new disgrace of Lubavitch. Yes he is.

He is a horrible, evil moser who is also a selfish, attention-seeking, destructive self-hating Jew. He should leave Crown Heights and move far away and take his horrible modern and immodest family with him. He should do teshuva and beg forgiveness from the Rebbe ( Read more... )

Okay, this one is going to be difficult. Which one is more crazy?

Door Number One:

Encouraging halachic marriages between gay men and lesbians for the sake of "platonic love" and children?  From here.  Hattip: R. Harry Maryles

Or

Door Number Two:

Allowing the public posting of comments from people who think that the recent earthquake in Japan took ( Read more... )

Dear Gedolim,

You were right and I was wrong. Please accept my apologies. Your followers should stay far away from the evil tumah that is the internet.

With Much Love, OSM.

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In other news, reading the YWN ( Read more... )

In 1996, Sacker studied ultra-Orthodox and Syrian Jewish communities in Brooklyn and found that 1 out of 19 girls was diagnosed with an eating disorder - a rate about 50 percent higher than the general U.S. population.

From here.

That whole article is so incredibly ironic in light of  the kiruv machine's continuous insistence that following the laws ( Read more... )