We Moved!

 Posted by on June 4, 2012
Jun 042012
 

Hello dearest readers and lurkers. As you may have noticed, thanks to your extremely generous support (you know who you are!) we are now masters of our own domain!

I hope you will enjoy the small changes that came with this move and the even bigger changes to follow. Please stand by for more caption contests and other exciting features, not to mention more cartoons and doodles!

You friend always,
Shpitzig

On Arranged Marriage

 Posted by on May 31, 2012
May 312012
 

 

on arranged marriagesA Date

 

It’s wonderful that the young Hasidic boy or girl is asked “do you like him/her” of the future spouse before an engagement is finalized. The couple spends on average half an hour together on their one and only date, mumbling about absolutely nothing important while the parents hover anxiously outside the door. Usually, the couple would not even be interacting with first person pronouns out of respect for the stranger; they would be punctuating the formal Q&A with painfully awkward silences while unable to will their virgin eyes to make eye-contact. And then they are to announce a liking for that to-be fianc