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Tag Archives: mechitza
Women’s Prayer Groups Are Passe
In a 2010 lecture on R. Joseph Messas and R. Avraham Shapiro, Marc B. Shapiro (no relation) says that the Sephardim have always had a positive view of the return to Israel. Sephardim have never been anti-Zionist. Rav Messas wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Marc B. Shapiro, Modern Orthodox, Orthodoxy
Tagged Marc B. Shapiro, mechitza, prayer groups, rabbi avi weiss, sefer torah, traditional judaism, upper west side
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Pico-Robertson Gets A New Shul – The LINK Shul
Email: With great and bursting praise to the Almighty, we formally announce the beginning of the New LINK Shul – an offshoot of the LINK Kollel. Where will the shul be located? In our Kollel, 1453 Robertson – corner of … Continue reading
Posted in Pico/Robertson
Tagged Kollel, mechitza, mincha, new shul, preschool facility, types of jews
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Heshy Fried Visits LA
Watch our interviews. Heshy writes on FrumSatire.net: The Happy Minyan was the happiest shul I’ve ever been to, everyone was hugging, dancing and smiling the whole time – it wasn’t just about the post lecha dodi dancing, this was full … Continue reading
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Tagged cholent, good shabbos, heshy, mechitza, nai david, orthodox shul
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The Moshav Band Plays The Happy Minyan Saturday Night
I heard the crowd got so excited that they started throwing their sheitels on stage. A friend says: “A group of women started dancing together and the men rushed out with a makeshift mechitza to put around them. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Happy Minyan, Moshav Band
Tagged davening, mechitza, minyan, Moshav Band, sheitels
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How To Know If You Are Modern Orthodox
From FrumSatire.net: You eat Vegan out You go to the beach You have mixed seating at weddings, brisim, shalom zachors, etc
Posted in Modern Orthodox
Tagged english names, lecha dodi, mechitza, Modern Orthodox, shul, yedid nefesh
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I Got Poked On Facebook
These chicks poked me on Facebook and I’m not sure what to do. Do I poke back? Do I message back? Do I ask ’em out? Do I make wedding plans? Is this serious or is this just play? I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Orthodoxy, Sex
Tagged casual encounter, cock teases, Facebook, free porn, mechitza, single girls
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