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Toyota is now considered kosher

Thank you Sarah for tagging me in this picture on Facebook – I thought I had seen it all, but I guess not.Oh and check out this hilarious comment someone left on facebook: A few years ago my son wanted to eat the contents of a box of tampons. Of course he did not know what they were, but he ...

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Torah Study and Worldly Occupation

This week 2 is the third cycle of Pirkei Avos. In the second mishna of the third perek it says:Rabban Gamliel the son of Rabbi Yehuda the Prince said, Torah study is good with a worldly occupation, because the exertion put into both of them makes one forget sin. All Torah without work will ultimately result in desolation and will ...

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Torah Homeschooling

Homeschooling is beginning to boom amongst Orthodox Jews. Last summer, a Baltimore woman, Mrs. Avivah Werner, organized The First Annual Torah Homeschool Conference along with other local homeschooling parents. People came from as far away as New York, Michigan, and Sharon, MA to attend the conference. Presenters spoke on subjects ranging from different homeschooling philosophies and methodologies to practical issues ...

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Torah Always Matters

This was not an easy blogging week. The issue of women’s ordination brought some sharp divisions within the community into focus, including fundamentally different conceptions of halachic process and authority. Surprisingly, the most jarring phrase I saw was embedded in a generally friendly comment. It will give me an opportunity for catharsis, to present my credo.Read more: @ cross-currents.comReaders found more ...

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Top Yom Kippur Apologies of the Year

Yom Kippur begins on Tuesday evening next week and it will mark the 5,773rd year (give or take) that Jews will reflect on their misgivings and seek to be better in the coming year. It’s also an ideal day for apologizing for wrongdoing.I love the list that JTA compiled of the top apologies of the year. They might not have ...

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Top Free iPad iPhone Android Passover Apps

We got our iPad after the seder last year. So this is the first year we can explore the Passover apps. We confine this brief list to free apps plus one at .99. There are others at reasonable prices. Here they are:No Chametz! – free – what you need to search for Chametz and a link for selling it for ...

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Top Chef Goes Kosher

Anyone who keeps kosher and watches Top Chef knows that a kosher challenge would be epic. Imagine all of the chefs running around trying to make great food and then a Mashgiach comes over to tell them that the margarine they used in one of their recipes was actually dairy and would have to be thrown away. Again, it would ...

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Top 10 Reasons I Hate Lists: The Newsweek Ranking of the Rabbis

Within hours of the publication of yesterday’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis list by Newsweek Magazine, I began to hear complaints about this list. On Twitter and Facebook, as well as in the blogosphere and in person, people complained about the idea that a mainstream magazine like Newsweek (which is for sale if anyone’s interested) would publish an unscientific listing of ...

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Top 10 frummy obsessions

God provided me this idea in the middle of shemona esrei, I was saying chonen h’daas which is a pretty cool blessing for someone who sometimes takes the brain for granted and God put forth the idea to write about the frummy obsession with Wal Mart. I was thinking of this, because although Wal Mart is an evil corporation, frummies ...

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Top 10 Frum Finds on Urban Dictionary

My friend Eitan gasped when he realized I had no idea what the Stern Hump was, of course it was some random word that some douche invented on Urban Dictionary which is a site devoted to people who decide to make up offensive terms and words. Almost every word and term on the site is devoted to something sexual, racist, ...

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Top 10 fails of the frum world

I know that many of you are already reading this with giving me mussar in mind, why foucs on the negativity when there’s so much positivity and quite frankly, you’re right, but negativity brings in the advertising dollars and I never get good comments on nice things I write about the frum community. So I continue to pedal my cynacism ...

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Tomorrow: Jewesses for the win?

The country is abuzz with anticipation. Tomorrow, on November 2, 2010, citizens will head to the polls and cast their ballots in the midterm elections. Will the Republicans take the House? Will the Democrats keep the Senate? Tomorrow night or in the wee hours of Wednesday, America will know the results (barring any drawn-out polling mishaps or mandated recounts).And in ...

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