Before the other links... that documentary series in Britian on SkyNews about Jews in the Manchester community mentioned earlier is truly riveting. I watched Episodes I and II earlier, and they were rather well done, mostly letting the people speak and describe in their view what they're doing. I is...

Larger Families and Equality Earlier I posted some words of wisdom regarding discrepancies between income and siblings from the Money Magazine columnists Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz who authored the book Isn't It Their Turn to Pick Up the Check? Dealing with All of the Trickiest Money Problem...

For the last few weeks, Rebbetzin Jungreis' column in The Jewish Press has focused on the shidduch problem of "working boys" being viewed as "second class citizens" in the shidduch market*. This week, she had letters from two young women - one who was looking for a "working boy" and one who was look...

The Gemara talks about the word ‘vayikach’, and why the story of Korach begins with this word. There are several pshatim in the Medrash and the Gemara. A. Harav Dr. Akiva Eisenberg of Queens once said that the term "vayikach" alludes to the story brought in the Gemara in Sanhedrin 109b-110a. The...

Our Children: Nosh, (Lack of) Exercise The OU Shabbat Shalom Newletter ran an article by Dr. Ronald Nagel (UCLA Associate Professor of Medicine and private practice) titled Pediatric Obesity: A Challenge for the Orthodox Jewish Community. I believe I have seen this article run in other publications,...

A reader at EndTheMadness.org (a site devoted to addressing the madness that is the current shidduch process), a reader posted about shidduch resumes. He describes a wonderful girl he knows - attractive, well educated, literate, good family background, a "fierce commitment to Yiddishkeit," etc. He r...

*sticky until Mon. night; new posts below - hit expandLittle boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes, little boxes, Little boxes, all the same. There’s a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky And they all lo...

Money: The Solution to Everything? A Yated Letter writer had this to say (in regards to shidduchim, but he really could have been writing about any subject): "I’m not a rabbi or an authority on the matter. I don’t have any advice to offer, except, perhaps, the idea that when money is the solutio...

Reading Bad For Shidduchim's blog (One of the most original and entertaining blogs out there), I came across her post regarding the "male part of view" of Shidduchim dating. Geez, now that a can of worms (which I would be very happy to open given the fact that my Betta Caesar loves to slurp them dow...

Singles4Singles is pleased to present     “Cinderella”* (Our final “Ball” of 2007) Date: Monday, December 31, 2007 Time: 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm (apx.) Location: Manhattan location will be disclosed to registered participants Thursday before the event. Advance ...