I was reading an article on a very great rebbetzin, and couldn't help comparing today and her times...

Here are the most striking passages...

she was a free thinker
She was separated from her mother for a period of time and lived with a British Lord

Mrs. Rivkin met Rabbi Sholom Rivkin on a blind date in Buffalo. They were married in 1954 (5 years after ( Read more... )

• 15:04:03: So my young adult lazy student is stopping all his lessons... so NOT surprised!
• 17:26:18: My teacher is dating a guy my age!! lol
• 18:07:12: In just a bit more than 8 years, Mati will be be bas mitsva... woah! (bh)
• 19:13:57: When you give an hour, stick to it, dammit!!!

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Remember my friend (the chassid with 3 kids)? It won't be this year that she will finish her degree... this is what happened to her school


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• 13:12:37: Received a reply from a school, two years late. How professional!
• 13:13:04: A Jewish school has opened just near my university. BH, how incredible!
• 14:11:20: Called the rabbi for his shidduch, he was so happy!
• 14:11:38: Fed up of shadchanim who don't respect clients and other shadchanim
• 16:55:13: LJ Liberals are so tolerant and open minded ( Read more... )

We got it ( Read more... )

Just so you get an idea about Europe (yes, not just France), here is my translation of a part of an interview of a French rav who calls himself MO (Hirschian). Brand new interview, rav is young (28) and very educated (had a law and politics MA in public university before going to yeshiva then rabbi school and now starting a PhD in same course ( Read more... )

• 12:55:28: The scan at the hospital in my city closes early today due to yomtov!!
• 12:55:43: teacher and pupil (back to school!)

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• 16:22:38: Sheyna 960 g! big gal!
• 19:14:27: No it is NOT fine to tell a mom who had her third or fourth or tenth girl "IYH a boy next year"!!!! aaaaaaargh!!!!!!
• 20:36:26: "Take clothes to change
  in case Mati throws up in the plane... oh and for you too", my mom
• 20:44:16: Mati : "No I don't wanna wear pyjamas I'm not a boy!!! I want a nightgown!!!"
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A new year begins, and I realize I've read a LOT more than I thought.

Here are the books I loved, or found very very worthwhile. Bear in mind that not all of them are fully suitable for very charedi people, you may need to skip stuff or even put the book down. Your reading, your checking.

University reading:

The Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters ( Read more... )

• 21:11:37: the rer (suburb trains) are worse than ever, they annoy passenger on purpose to get the state to give them more money
  
• 21:38:16: loves when people mistake us for newlyweds
  
• 21:49:13: so my teacher left her husband for a much young Russian guy?! woa
  

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