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... )

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... )

My oldest daughter was invited into an online chavrusah, using skype or something like that. The chavrusah leader has chosen The Garden of Emuna to study, so we went out and bought the book.  It's a pretty well known sefer, I've read lots of posters on womens' websites who swear by it.

At the outset, I can say that the book does try to present a ( Read more... )

So my husband and the kids were away this shabbos and I decided to check out the "egalitarian" shul in our neighborhood ( 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... )

Here's an interesting interview that starts off sounding like your typical off-the-derech story.

Girl grows up in an insular Chassidic environment, is married off at age 17 and has 3 kids by the age of 23. She then divorces her husband, leaves her community and starts working on degrees and careers.

But that's where the the typical off-the-derech ( 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... )

Here's a topic I am completely ignorant about : Valuations. Arachin.

There is apparently a whole section of halacha that deals with donation vows made based on a person's worth. I guess it would be like this:  "In honor of our anniversary, I hereby promise to donate my wife's value to the Temple." Or something like that.  One type of valuation vow ( Read more... )