“It’s mind-boggling that anyone could think that a bochur’s ‘workload’ could even come close to that of a frum mother!”

“This isn’t about respecting our elders. It is about people keeping a senile man in a position he should not be in”

“No matter which side you’re on (tzedakah receiver, giver, or ineligible): learn the Beis HaLevi’s Maamar Habitachon. It’s oxygen”

“As long as people continue to pay high prices for sheitels, music bands, etc., and this becomes the new ‘norm,’ this problem will only grow”

“Fertility treatments are prohibitively expensive, but that’s not why most people give to these funds”

“More education in our system about what a marriage is and why we get married would benefit us all, me very much included”

Let me be clear. Aniim are not raising communal standards. Tzedakah funds are reacting to the increased expectations set by others.

Finally someone is admitting that communal standards have been raised not by those who are wealthy, but those who are providing for the poor as if the ani were wealthy

“The pre-Pesach Stealth Mom secretly throwing out old socks matched my current mood perfectly”

“If parents are investing so much in seminary tuition, why can’t they use the year to really prepare girls for marriage?”