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Our optometrist confirmed today that my seven year old son will be wearing eyeglasses, like every other Chassidic cheider boy that sits a...

I had to go through my storage closet to find some summer clothing. If you’re familiar with this business, looking for a single pair of shor...

Spring is here, just about arriving. Still a bit reluctant to disperse its freckles over the youthful noses, but it'll come around. The ...

"HELLO, XXXY..." [Provocative giggle] "Thank you for calling 1900-TALK. Mmm. " [Thick male voice] "1900-TALK is...

Every so often Yoelish wakes up in the morning especially enthused, the birth of a brilliant idea rousing him from slumber. "You know w...

Mazel Tov! Here's the link to my new room, Shpitzle Shtible , where I'll be writing and discussing "sefarim" of all genres...

The Jewish Internet Bloggers  Awards are coming up! I haven’t been sleeping much lately. The anticipation! I toss and turn wide-eyed in th...

Sung by Shtrimpkind Yo! You out there Watchadoin today, Gochaself some rainin’ Gochaself some blues... You can't hear no music To get yo...

Pesach passed in a blur. It came and went in a dizzying cycle of changing from white to floral to white to floral  tichel, or in clockspeak,...

Yep, ladies. It looks like Jewish girls are known for being 'Desperate Girls'! A single Yiddish Meidle at the thirty? Vey! I caught ...

Buckle up people and get ready to scream. Twice a year the chassidish community takes the entertainment world by storm. Roller coasters dip ...

Finally! My much-anticipated post on the subjects of (1) Pesach and on (2) a woman's tafkid... It's here: To clean and to be ...

Here, chronicled, is the very original diary of my escapades into a second identity, my little trips into a life as a shiksa. * * * I heard ...

Over the last few days, I’ ve been keeling over microscopic dirt – too busy with 'em to even breathe. God bless me and my Erev Pesach ...

INTRO to Tefilla: Dear Jewish Daughter, The Holy Day passed and many of us have not done proper teshuvah. The Satan lures us in through glit...

My friend phoned me. Like clockwork, she does that. Every Erev Yom Hapurim a certain sense of holiness comes over her, and she begins the se...

Folks, Purim/Pesach season is coming up so I won't be around blogger much over the next few weeks. Y'know of course that I've go...

The sixty-watt bulb above our vanity mirror doesn’t do me justice. So I went out and bought a lamppost, dragged it all the way into my apart...

Mother always tells the story of my birth. Despite all the deliveries that precede me and succeed me, her eyes still fog over as she retells...