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  • Like economic problems and health-care reform, the issues with the fashion industry are root-deep, and likely won't change much until the whole meshuggenah is overhauled.

    "Fashion's Aesthetic Should Enhance and Beautify the Human Form, Not Destroy It." 2010

  • Like economic problems and health-care reform, the issues with the fashion industry are root-deep, and likely won't change much until the whole meshuggenah is overhauled.

    Starre Vartan: "Fashion's Aesthetic Should Enhance and Beautify the Human Form, Not Destroy It." 2010

  • I completely bought into this as one of those “what are those meshuggenah Yiddin going to think up next” until I started researching the rabbis quoted by the authors.

    Gasoline: Not Kosher? 2007

  • Like economic problems and health-care reform, the issues with the fashion industry are root-deep, and likely won't change much until the whole meshuggenah is overhauled.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Starre Vartan 2010

  • A Jewish man who dismisses such women as a group is, in technical terms, meshuggenah. page 1 | 2 | 3

    All articles at Blogcritics 2009

  • Even when we kill their papa'les and mama'les, we are generous enough to give the orphans a bit of schnitzel, gefilte and chicken soup with lokshen, so they never join the meshuggenah Hamas once they they are old enough to become ticking bomb'alchs.

    Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2009

  • Oy, if this meshuggenah zundel pope, who was himself a member of the

    Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2009

  • Because when they look at us — women rabbis and scholars, men and women davvening and dancing together, new music, gay marriages — even though they say ‘meshuggenah,’ the fact of us still forces them to think in some tiny corner of their minds, ‘So why do we use exactly the same tune for Adon Olam every Shabbos and where did that melody come from, was it handed down by God at the creation?

    Fringe People 2003

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