MsRobyn, not all the Orthodox organizations take the hard-line that Agudath Israel takes.
How, exactly, is that an instance of Godwin’s law? I must be missing something.
to MsRobynn: the OU represents a more moderate Orthodoxy than, say, the Hasidim at B&H Foto. “Orthodox”, like “Jewish”, encapsulates a diverse range of beliefs and practices.
I’m Orthodox (I didn’t realize there were so many of us here) and I waste a good portion of my day surfing the net- mostly message boards and tower defense games.
What’s strange is that it looks like they used to have a webpage, and you can find copies from 2002-2006 online. Any idea of the story behind that?
But not on the Sabbath, right? Which is why we so often get Orthodox Jewish questions on Fridays, due to some weird ironic quirk of the universe.
At least this one was before the Sabbath.
I think it was meant to be a joke, but I didn’t get it either.
I am now dying to know this, though I wouldn’t be surprised if chaim is right about the costume thing. However, AFAICT Tennessee also has a considerable number of fruit orchards, so I wonder if they’re a farm business that’s getting orders for apricots/apricot preserves for hamentaschen fillings…
Ograbbit, I require to know the Straight Dope on this. Hope the OP comes back to tell us!
Sorry. It was indeed supposed to be a joke – basically, that any Internet use eventually involves someone bringing up the Nazis, which presumably alienates Orthodox Jews from wanting to use the Internet.
Funny enough, the company for whom I work sells gift and gourmet packaging (read gift wrap, candy boxes, cello bags, etc) which are all used for the gifts to go in and look good. By the by, this year, the popular box is the GB03WS – it’s large enough to fit some Purim cookies (sorry, I can’t pronounce the real name, so that’s what I call them), some nuts, chocolates and a small bottle of spirits. My customers assure me that the WCB4 will fit a “sample” size bottle, so those are popular as well. Just like the last 3 years, our BFB6 boxes are still popular in the aqua and chocolate.
We get so many Jewish women from about the middle of January until a week prior to Purim that we figure anyone calling from 718 and 845 area codes are for Purim orders. The funny thing is, we know this, and every time the customer will avoid just saying “this is for Purim” and act shocked that we know what they need, lol.
Whew! Thanks, Litoris, now I’ll be able to sleep tonight. 
I know. I just thought some specific examples of websites of Orthodox groups might be in order.
Robin
Captain Amazing:
I believe that web site was given permission by the Agudah to make them available, as long as it was clear that they are not doing it on the Agudah’s behalf.
Litoris, thanks for the response - I was thinking (as a second guess) that it might be for such packaging, but I didn’t figure that gift boxes/bags were such a specialty item that any one company would see a major spike in activity around Purim time.
You would be surprised. The thing is, since we are a wholesale company that sells to the public without requiring a tax ID and we do allow small ($25) orders, we are very popular. This time of year, we know that we will be taking a billion orders a day, but our average will drop to nothing. Many of us sound very anti-Semitic this time of year, but we also get this way during June with our brides that call and say “oh, I need to place a HUUUUUUUUUGE order.” Huge for a bride is usually 100 boxes, which is 1 carton – usually not even meeting our minimum order!
Consider this a service rendered, Litoris. I never considered getting all fancy-shmancy with gift boxes for my mishloach manot but since I’m doing more this year, I think I will. Woohoo!
(And yes, I’m online on Saturday, but I give Purim gifts. I’m a cafeteria Jew.)
I used to tutor several kids from a Chabad Lubavitcher family, and they had internet in the home. The kids were only allowed on the chabad.org website. Their favorite show was the web-based puppet show Itche Kadoozy, which is hilarious, by the way.
This family was crazy in many ways, but their internet in the home policy was right in line with most mainstream families.