From Judeopundit/Soccerdad. Enjoy
The current enthusiasm for reinventing all forms of regulatory oversight on the model of kosher supervision, while promising new levels of consumer-driven justice-advocacy never before attained, unfortunately has led to a number of serious abuses and violations of the Tikkun Olam-oriented, non-narrowly ritualistic aspects of the Torah. The question arises: Who, exactly, is [...]
August 27, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: Leave a Comment
Where is the line drawn between an activist and an antisemite? Diane Reaves aka Humble Angel seems determined to help redefine it. Diane Reaves, often going by the user name Humble Angel online, is a Lakewood resident, apparently a Fundamentalist Christian, who spends a major chunk of her time offline and online obsessed with the [...]
August 23, 2007
Categories: Uncategorized . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 4 Comments
I’m not a conservative and I’m not a liberal. I’m just a Jew and I get mad as hell when liberals and conservatives try repackaging their politics as Judaism. I’m mad when Rabbi Avigdor Miller or Rabbi Daniel Lapin did/do it. I’m mad when Rabbi Eric Yoffe or Rabbi Joshua Hammerman does it. It’s obscene [...]
August 20, 2007
Categories: kashrut, liberals . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 10 Comments
Now boys and girls those of you who were good remember that we talked about Facilitated Communication last week. Facilitated Communication or FC basically means that the parents, guardians or molesters of autistic kids use them as human Ouija boards guiding their hands around a pen or pencil to sketch out messages from the [...]
August 15, 2007
Categories: judaism, stupidity . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 5 Comments
Ovadya Yosef is really a lot like Andrew Dice Clay. He’s cranky, obnoxious, politically correct and not nearly as funny as he thinks he is. Every time he digs out a new stand up routine about the Holocaust or women or how voting for Shas will get into heaven, it just flops. But that never [...]
August 13, 2007
Categories: shas . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 1 Comment
Okay now we all know the Torah says no witchcraft. That means no building gingerbread houses and baking kids in EZ Bake ovens. No flying around on brooms on moonlight nights. No casting spells. No magical amulets, fortune telling, voodoo doctors, witch doctors and all the rest. Seems easy enough at least for those of [...]
August 9, 2007
Categories: stupidity . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 3 Comments
Yeah me, I’ve finally arrived. I always wanted to be a duplicitous frummie ever since I fell asleep listening to my first Lipa CD while dreaming of writing a Gedolim biography. Now somebody give me my freaking Lexus and give it to me fast, I’ve got a raffle for some yeshiva to go to.
What’s all [...]
August 8, 2007
Categories: craziness, jblogsphere . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 15 Comments
Updated: Reply from David Kelsey and Rebuttal
Jewschool’s David Kelsey has an idiotic rant (even by Jewschool standards) claiming that NCSY is destroying liberal kids by seducing them with Havdalah and teaching them to hate America and the Scientific Method. No really he says this. What have the boys and girls at Jewschool been smoking for [...]
August 7, 2007
Categories: stupidity . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: 15 Comments
“Neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For he will turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He will [...]
August 5, 2007
Categories: judaism, society . . Author: samuraimohel . Comments: Leave a Comment