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The Na’vi Makes a Prophecy: Judaism in Avatar

by Heshy Fried on February 10, 2010 · 2 comments

By Sergey Kadinsky

As the first month of 2010 approaches its end, the bar for epic films this year has been set high by Avatar, the outer space science fiction flick directed by James Cameron.

On the face of it, the film is a battle between heavily militarized humans and nature-worshiping natives, and a number of prominent moviegoers took this to heart. [click to continue…]

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Frum Satire show in LA this Sunday

by Heshy Fried on February 9, 2010 · 7 comments

I know it’s a bit short notice but I will be performing this coming Sunday February 14th in Los Angeles at the Pacific Jewish Center AKA Shul on the Beach (on the Venice Beach Boardwalk) at 6pm. The rabbi of the shul is fellow blogger/contributor Eliyahu Fink.

Facebook event – please share with your friends.

Frum Satire live in Los Angeles@ The Shul on the Beach 6pm
505 Ocean Front Walk
Los Angeles, CA 90291
Cost of admission is a suggested donation to the shul of $5-10

If you could post this on your blog it is appreciated.

I will be in LA all week because I am attending the Jewlicious Festival next weekend and may need some places to crash or eat your shabbos leftovers.

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Are you Charedi Style?

by Heshy Fried on February 9, 2010 · 9 comments

First there was kosher style, then there was Charedi style. Every time there is a scandal involving an orthodox Jew committing some crime everyone gets up in everyone’s grill about these people not really being orthodox and just being fakers. The conversations always degenerate into arguments over what really makes a Jew religious, is it the heart or the clothing? [click to continue…]

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San Francisco is gay

February 8, 2010

I have come to realize that the gay community at large is a curiosity to me. No, I am not gay nor do I have any interest in being gay, but just like the Chassidic community intrigues me so does the gay community. It may have something to do with the fact that I will [...]

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Jewish Ethics and the Internet: This Thursday at Twitter headquarters

February 8, 2010

Jewish Ethics and the Internet: How the Internet is Changing Human Relationships
When: Thurs. February 11,  6 PM

Where: Twitter Headquarters,

795 Folsom Street suite #600, San Francisco [map]

I stayed in San Francisco for shabbos last week and toward the end of my stay I learned that there was going to be a conference relating to Jews [...]

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Derech, schmerech. Pass the shrimps.

February 6, 2010

I heard there’s a lot of hullabaloo around here about why people “go off the derechâ€, and anger, and backgrounds, and all kinds of naarishkeit.
Fine. Do what you’ve got to do.
Now, normally, I’d stay out of this kind of thing- but I was talking to Heshy the other day, trying to convince him that he [...]

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Srugim: Imagine a Jewish Sex and the City

February 5, 2010

Srugim was a really popular show in Israel that was about the modern orthodox singles scene of Jerusalem, and now you can watch it on the Jewish Channel – it looks super interesting and very funny, albeit a bit complicated. Finally someone is starting to realize that hava nagila and manishevetz just won’t cut it [...]

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Lipa Schmeltzer concert causes Haiti Earthquake

February 3, 2010

Until the recent press release from Rabbi Yehuda Levin announcing that the gays were the cause of the Haiti Earthquake, no one had heard of him or his organization the Rabbinical Alliance of America. In response to RAA and Agudath Israel getting all the media attention for announcing the reasons for the recent earthquake in [...]

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Presenting Rabbi Yehuda Levin

February 3, 2010

Rabbi Yehuda Levin made this video to get attention and it’s working, it is also a huge Chillul Hashem. Rabbi Yehuda Levin is not the first to claim that homosexuality has lead God to destroy random innocent people. Some of you may remember some Rabbis claiming that Hurricane Katrina was caused because of Immoral behavior.

In [...]

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