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Category Archives: Satire
RebMoshe.com!
In heretofore secret documents now finally unveiled by the Leader, Reb Moshe lays out his plans for his very own website (grammatical and spelling mistakes are in the original): Through the gift of ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), HaShem showed me … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Rabbis, Satire
Tagged hashem, nationaldebt, reb moshe, ruach hakodesh, secret documents, spelling mistakes, spiritual artist, spiritual friend
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I Was A Talmid Of The Rav!
Only now can the truth be told! I know every rabbi claims to have been a talmid of the Rav, but I really was. I studded under the Rav for three years when he was still teaching in Yiddish. The … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Orthodox, Orthodoxy, Personal, Rabbis, Satire
Tagged biblical criticism, broken man, intellectual exercise, orthodox judaism, rav, talmid
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I’m Entering A Blogger Treatment Center
Only now can the full story be told. Just before Rosh Hashanah, I drank too much manishevitz and outed some 18-year old seminarian blogger. Then I went to the Crowne Plaza on Pico and Beverwil and got into a fight … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Satire
Tagged damn book, good listener, manishevitz, negative publicity, orthodox judaism, seminarian
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What Happened To Our Country?
Joe Queenan writes: This, after all, is a country where strapping young men take up two seats on the subway while pregnant women and the elderly cling to the overhead straps for dear life. This is a country where parents … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Satire
Tagged african american culture, country joe, dear life, golf swing, hispanic man, hispanic woman, joe queenan, stand ups, teacher night
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I Am The Father Of Bristol Palin’s Baby
I appreciate the discretion Palins used in their statement, identifying me only by my first Hebrew name: "We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates." Now I feel … Continue reading
Posted in Satire
Tagged hebrew name, jim wilson, moral leader, palin, religious community, trig
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To Pray
I walk into shul, sit next to the rabbi, and for the next three hours we’re silent except for rattling off our prayers.. Finally, after adon olam and kiddish, I shake his hand and say, "Gut shabbos." "Look," he replies. … Continue reading
The Miserable Jews
I just watched this cool 1998 movie starring Rabbi Yosef Blau as Inspector Javert and Rabbi Marc Winiarz as Jean Valjean. It was a thriller! Winiarz was imprisoned at age nineteen for stealing forbidden fourteen year old loving when he was a starving yeshiva … Continue reading
Posted in Satire
Tagged daughter cosette, inspector javert, jean valjean, rabbi shlomo carlebach, rabbi yosef, yeshiva student
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Whining About The New Yorker’s Barack Obama Cover
Jack Shafer writes: Although every critic of the New Yorker understood the simple satire of the cover, the most fretful of them worried that the illustration would be misread by the ignorant masses who don’t subscribe to the magazine. Los … Continue reading
Posted in Satire
Tagged bill mauldin, jack shafer, joe sixpack, pat oliphant, paul conrad, recruitment poster
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