Chabad and Satmar are actually enemies historically. Chabad is a strange offshoot sect. Some modern orthodox believe them to be the beginning of a new religion because a percentage of them worship their deceased rebbe who failed to appoint a successor. Anyways, Chabad is all about outreach (to Jews mainly) so kids…

You know, when comparing hasidim with Jews in history, our blessed hasidim don't match. The previous hasidim were insular because they were oppressed and lived in isolation. What we have now is the result of generations with PTSD and Xenophobia. I would suggest we not call that "highly Orthodox", but unorthodox and…

Don't tell Glen Beck about the anti Israel Satmar faction. His head will e.x.p.l.o.d.e.

To me, an outsider dismissing my choices as "self imposed oppression" is oppression.

I kind of meant it to be contradictory, thanks for not bashing me in your reply. But it would have been less contradictory had I said, forced vaginal mutilation. I just recently saw "Half the Sky" and they spoke of the girls who were picked up in their beds and carried to the surgery without any idea when. It was so…

As a modern orthodox Jewish feminist I totally understand what you're saying. So many here hold all of religion in disdain and seem thoroughly irritated that we feel connected, but we do. Feminism to me, is very strongly connected to letting women choose her path, if that choice makes you think her oppressed, that's…

Somewhere Kirk Cameron is feeling really over the hill.

Ugg Ansley slippers. I'm only a malcontent cause my feet are cold.

Oh I thought those were just libertarian referendum wins.

My brother just got back from his 2nd tour in Afghanistan in July and his unit is being redeployed in December. He has the option to stay stateside, but somehow his orders got screwed up and it looks like he might spend the next 3 years away from his kids. He's leaning towards going back, but I tried to tell him I…

Can we please start putting "pro-life" in quotes where it belongs?

Hey that is awful. If she were smart she'd make her own line of gaudy "Americana"

I don't know why, but her glasses in that picture make me ANGRY.

My most annoying catcall was when I ignored some stranger complimenting me and he said "The least you could say is thank you" I don't remember if I yelled back "The least you could say is nothing" or if I just added it in post.

I miss the Weekly World News.

This is my favorite live band in NYC - Fifth Nation. Lead singer / guitar player King Julia absolutely shreds and has amazing vocal chops. This band is something to behold live if you get the chance. And they're relatively undiscovered. For now.

I just have a theory that musicians don't talk about genre the same way that non musicians do. Music is music, performance is performance. The hardest part of being a musician in my experience is describing the music I make (in press & bio stuff) in a way that connects my music to other artists and genres. In…

I wonder if you're a musician. I am and I find that I feel very surprised when I find myself in a conversation about musical genre. To me, if something rocks, it rocks you, it moves you. Rock music (like all music) is an evolution of many other types of music and it's been declared dead a whole bunch of times by now…

I agree with you about the Amy Heidemann comment, but I suspect that Garnier / Rolling Stone / whatever their record label is had a deal and it's much better to mention the name people might have heard than the singer.

Yeah it's a very good school.. technically "Berklee". Now can I have the mango?