Heshy Fried
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December 28, 1981 Upper West Side of Manhattan |
| Occupation | cook, former comic, former blogger |
Heshy Fried (born December 28, 1981) is a former American stand-up comedian and blogger.
While in college, Fried became an avid outdoorsman and cyclist. He raced mountain bikes, skied frequently, and went on extended backpacking trips throughout the United States northeast, as well as Montana, Alaska, and Utah. In June 2006, while working as an intern during budget season for the New York State Assembly, he began writing down his thoughts about the Orthodox Jewish community and posting them on Craigslist New York's "Rant and Raves" section. Around this time he attended a wedding in Toronto, Canada and was introduced to blogging by his friend Sarah Zeldman, a life coach and professional blogger.
Fried moved to the San Francisco Bay area in early 2010 and was employed as a line cook at The Kitchen Table, then Silicon Valley's only kosher eatery.
Fried became engaged in January 2012. He married his wife on June 17, 2012, at the Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos, California. They currently live in the Bay Area.
Fried began blogging on Frum Satire in June 2006 when he lived in Albany, New York, but did not enter the spotlight until about six months later when he wrote a post outlining different categories of sects in the Orthodox and Protestants community. Several more notable bloggers linked to the post, and Fried's work began to attract more attention. In November 2008, Fried performed stand-up satirizing the Orthodox community on stage for the first time when Israeli comedian David Kilimnick asked Fried to open for him in New York. Rave reviews pushed him to start posting stand-up comedy videos of himself and others on YouTube, where he gained a large following of thousands of viewers.
Blog posts received as many as 250 comments, and the website provided a forum for all types of readers, Jews and gentiles alike, to discuss varying issues in an open, uncensored forum.
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