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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Jewish Week (and SerandEz) on Bad4Shidduchim

Hehe. I'm think I'm going to enjoy this far more than she will... I was interviewed via e-mail in midst of a busy day trying to reorganize and clean out our apartment, and probably should have been a little more careful in my wording because I think I was slightly misunderstood on a couple of counts. But anyway, the Jewish Week asked me a few questions in putting together a piece about Bad4Shidduchim, and it's a reasonably good assessment of the blog.

It's also a nice reminder that context is everything:
“Bad4 takes an almost Seinfeld-like approach to the ‘study’ of shidduchim,” says Ezzie Goldish (aka SerandEz), a 24-year-old married blogger from Kew Garden Hills, Queens, who regularly comments on BadForShidduchim and, along with his wife, Serach, has hosted several Shabbatons for frum bloggers. Bad4’s posts are approached “from a point of view that really allows anyone to enjoy the posts, whether they’re young or old, across the [religious] spectrum from chasidish to left-wing Modern Orthodox,” he says.
The Seinfeld line kind of loses sense without the next line, which was "[by] throwing a spotlight on any individual aspect of the dating process, and when you focus on one aspect like that, odds are it's going to be pretty funny."

It's a good piece, check it out.

26 comments:

  1. Oh, and also - "several Shabbatons"?! Oy. I said we've had many bloggers over, including a couple weeks that some people considered like "Shabbatons". We sound like a singles event, which I don't quite think fits...

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  2. Yeah, I thought the same thing. I HATE when people call it that for that reason.

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  3. Ha i've never seen more than 2 bloggers at your shabbos table anyway. Some shabbaton you run :/

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  4. Did you notice that they said "Garden" instead of "Gardens"?

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  5. and, along with his wife, Serach, has hosted several Shabbatons for frum bloggers.

    Okay, I was gonna comment on that but then I saw that Ezzie and Apple already did. But still - shabbatons??? Why does it have to be a Shabbaton to have some friends over for Shabbos?

    Anyway, cool!!! You guys are famous!

    To quote from Newsies: "You're in the papes, you're famous."

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Av77_epf3l4

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  6. L.O.L. Forgive me if I am a bit exultuous, and use the dreaded exclamation points that males seem to love to ridicule, but WHOO-HOO!!!!! Badforshidduchim makes international fame!!!! [dance dance dance] That is cool.

    Yup. While taking a journalism class last year in Touro and writing for the Touro newspaper, I realized why someone famous or other said that he considers himself educated because he never reads the newspapers. Based on what you include/exclude, you can make two opposite points.

    Cool on getting your name in the newspaper- they should include the whole crew. :) LOL, I am cracking up. Where can I buy the paper? I want to show this to my grandkids... :)

    Chassidish... Who else is openly Chassidish besides for me? :)

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  7. Also, this is kinda funny, seeing as it's Bad4 and everything:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTAauj8XX0Y&NR=1

    the lyrics are here (since it's a little hard to understand):

    http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhqgbgbq_48ft3ng

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  8. almost Seinfeld-like

    where have i heard that before...

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  9. Oooh, Ezzie is an expert on blogs and also hosts shabbatons! So, any time I come for Shabbas, it's a blogger shabbaton? Congrats Bad4, on making it big!

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  10. Diana- but it IS Gardens!! Odd as it might sound...

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  11. I know it is "Gardens" I was just surprised Shmez didn't notice it...

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  12. Ed -

    When I was over, there were 7 bloggers at the meal, and four more came over during the course of the day, and that's not even counting people who just comment. Sounds like blogger central to me.

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  13. Apple - Grr. :P

    Ed - Haha! You just have bad luck. :P

    Diana - Yup! It DOES make more sense...

    Erachet - Right? And hehe.

    M - I think I lost you at the end this time... :P

    Stam - You tell me!

    SaraK - LOL. Yep - every time you come over. Or Diana. Or whomever. No wonder...!

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  14. were 7 bloggers at the meal

    Define "blogger"?

    I do not ascribe to a difinition of "one who has blogged". Just as I do not define a "painter" as one who has painted.

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  15. Whoa, testy about being called a blogger, are we?

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  16. Whoa, testy about being called a blogger, are we?

    Of course he is. It's bad for shidduchim!

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  17. And the evils of blog commenting rear their ugly head.

    I ask a simple question and the assumptions start flying.

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  18. As for any worries of actions of mine being "bad for shidduchim"...that ship sailed a loooooooong time ago.

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  19. G, you can be a commenter. One who comments.

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  20. Well I do. It's easier than saying "blogging community" or whatever zillion-syllable PC phrasing you'd prefer.

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  21. Yup, that's me, mister PC!

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  22. Un vuss is PC? (and please don't tell me personal computer)

    Ezzie- You said that everyone on the religious (and non-religious, btw) spectrum enjoys, from Chassish to left wing Modern Orthodox. I was wondering who else ever said they were Chassidish besides for me. :)

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  23. PC = politically correct

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  24. PC = politically correct

    Also, Private Conversation. Also, Personal Computer. Also, Pineapple Celery (is that a real flavor?).

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  25. Erachet- you can make it one. Someone once asked me if I'd eat hamburgers with chocolate syrup. Like, dude, that is *so* not an issue. :)

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  26. Congrats, Bad4! I forwarded the article to my dad, since I have told him that I read a funny, well-written blog by a 21-year-old in Brooklyn, and he doesn't really get it (blogging, shidduchim, Brooklyn, etc.). Hey, Ezzie, I'm left of left-wing modern Orthodox, and I still love Bad4!
    --Katrina

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