Category — Blogger

Most of us are fans of Stuff White People Like, a great stealth paleo-conservative voice that many mistake for hipster self-deprecation.

There is a Jew who is writing blog after blog inspired mostly by the latter interpretation. Stuff Jews Hate. Stuff Shmeckles Hate. Stuff Nazis Hate. They are all written by the same person, and no, not by me. If I did a Stuff Jews Hate blog, it would be quite different.

Update: The author noted that I forgot “Stuff Tushies Hate.” I don’t know how I forgot that one.

SJ is one of the angriest former BTs on the net, so much so that I banned him for awhile for reasons that I think we should leave in the archives.

In what may be a parting post, SJ rreveals more about himself, and what drove him to his hatred of the Orthodox.
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Damn…not bad for a “Jblogger.”

I’m off tomorrow morning for the J Bloggers convention. Make sure you keep in touch. When not posting on Jewcy, I’ll try to post here.

For Mo

Tragic news! Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal, an empathetic and engaging person who always stayed menschlach on this site even when disagreeing on core issues, has passed.

Sarah/froylein alerted me about this development, and we don’t yet have information about how or why. A trust is being established for his two daughters.

Everyone piled on right before Pesach began, so let’s do a roundup now.

The HIAS/Steinlight controversy made the Forward. NRO referenced my research on Progress By Pesach.

Heeb and Jewlicious call for solidarity with Streit’s.

It has come to my attention that some of my readers have been attempting to utterly destroy anonymous bloggers merely for disagreeing with me. I want to be clear that I do not approve of such destruction.

The Cheerer writes,

Why would you ever believe me? There is no reason you should, after all I disagreed with DK I MUST BE DESTROYED.

Please…I beseech you…stop the destruction.

The Orthodox have suffered enough.

The Cheerer has not had much success at countering my attacks on Big Kiruv. So he has resorted to arguing against an argument I have not made.

To wit:

But rather then let it be at that (there are far worse traditions for people to attack in Judaism) people like DK attack this tradition (albeit not as the main focus of the posting) as if it also involves killing a human baby.

“As if,” indeed. Needless to say, I made no such claim in any way, shape, or form. And The Cheerer has admitted as much in the comments section. He asserts that such straw men techniques are “a common writers tool.”

In his circles, no doubt it is.

This is one of the dudes — “face” — who harassed me before I banned him, and continues to write vicious comments on Failed Messiah. As you can see by his affection for swinging a chicken, he is a chassidic, and I know from my research, a Chabadnik. For those of you who are not familiar with this holy chassidic tradition, you are really missing out on a great deal. The fact is, if you swing a chicken before Yom Kippur, you are forgiven of all your sins. As it is written, “And within the ten days preceding Shabos Shabason, though shalt swing your chicken publicly, and your sins shalt be like feathers of a pillow.”

We know from “within” that the holy swinging of the chicken should not be on the first (Rosh HaShana), and is not permitted on Yom Kippur itself. The great chassidic master the Khuchakavinshticker Rebbe also understood that the use of the word “within” suggests that Holy Chicken Swinging be performed on the day closest to the middle, preferably the fifth day, as that is closest to “within,” i.e., the middle.

Additionally, by “your” chicken, we understand that this means you must not swing someone else’s chicken, but it must be a chicken owned by you. For this reason, some rebbes claim that children of a young age should not have a chicken swung around their head, but must be at least of an age where they risk being molested at the mikvah.

I have decided not to reveal “face’s” name at this time, but I would note “face” is in-line with a few previous assumptions.

1) Orthodox internet trolls are disproportionately from Chabad.
2) Chabad men do things with chickens that a man should not do.
3) Chabadniks do not like color photographs.

“Face” is a reminder of the anger men have when they spend too much time swinging their chicken, for it is forbidden to choke one’s chicken.

Photograph supplied by “face” himself, after me confronting him with a photo that better showed his actual face, but did not have the added advantage of including a chicken.

As some of you probably saw, I was hacked by an Orthodox blogger name “The Cheerer” because HE JUST HATES SECULAR PEOPLE AND HERESY!!!

Just kidding. The Cheerer did nothing wrong, except for, 1) using the Internet against the directives of leading haredi rabbis, and 2) visited my blog specifically, since it spews “loshan horah” about the Great Ones of Israel and the frum community generally, and 3) was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Wordpress mistook him for the administrator, for reasons beyond my technical understanding.

Anyway, big shout out to Mobius, who as usual, had my back. I can’t imagine my life without this guy…you guys have no idea. Anyway, thank you so much, Dan.