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Sermon on the Hotline

July 12, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
Sermon on the Hotline

Yoshke sat in the swivel chair in his office, and stared at his computer screen. He was thinking about this week’s hotline recording, and he did his best thinking while looking at his…


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Yossele the Troublemaker

June 29, 2010
By Ben Maimon
Yossele the Troublemaker

Let me tell you a little about Yossele. No, no, not the famous one who could sing a mile and even the opera-goyim wanted him to perform for them.…


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“Punk Jews”: Film, Movement, and Party of the Summer

June 18, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
“Punk Jews”: Film, Movement, and Party of the Summer

Several year ago, still sporting payess and a more-or-less Chasidic appearance, I met a girl in Greenwich village who stopped me on McDougal Street to tell me, “I think Hasidic Jews…


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The Self-fulfilling Prophecies of the Ex-Hasid

June 18, 2010
By Samuel Katz
The Self-fulfilling Prophecies of the Ex-Hasid

Do ex-Hasidim serve themselves well by establishing a vibrant community? Or does such community only amplify the narrative of struggle and displacement, inevitably confining them to the fringes?

Samuel Katz, a student at Stony Brook University, examines some of...
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Identity Not in Crisis

June 16, 2010
By Ruchy Fiedler
Identity Not in Crisis

This weekend I read a book called Fiedler on the Roof, a collection of essays about literature and Jewish identity by Leslie Fiedler. I received this book from a cyber-friend who, unaware that…


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Sins as White as Snow

June 14, 2010
By A.M. Yehuda
Sins as White as Snow

“My name is Baila Rothman, I’m from Ohio, I’m sixteen, I’m new here,” I said to each of my roommates when they wandered in to the dorm that night. Deborah Lee had the…


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The Mask

June 10, 2010
By Fruma Biegeleisen
The Mask

Tzomo Lecha Nafshi,

Put away the book. Put it away and listen to Kiddush. Stand up, your father’s waiting. Shhh. Come on.  Nu. Nu!  We don’t talk before grape juice, you’re a…


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Leave No Trace

June 8, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
Leave No Trace

Rievi and I sit on rocks near the shallow stream, the water cascading over tangles of rocks, branches, and fallen tree trunks, seeking its way, as water always does, to the lowest…


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The Day after Judgment Day

June 7, 2010
By Misyavni
The Day after Judgment Day

He felt the vibration on his waist. He removed the phone from its holster and glanced at the caller-ID screen. The number was unfamiliar, and so was the voice. But what it said…


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Here Comes the Messiah: Act Two

May 31, 2010
By A.M. Yehuda
Here Comes the Messiah: Act Two

It is early in the morning, the Hampton air is still grey and soft with the end of night. The boardwalk, stretching along the beach’s edge, is empty. In front of me, the…


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Silent Voices

May 27, 2010
By Chossid Ex
Silent Voices

I push my way out when the pressure in my head becomes unbearable. There are voices, but I can’t really hear them. There is a lot of piety around me in this shul.…


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Square One

May 25, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
Square One

We all love sex. We like it in the darkness of night when all we can hear are the strange house noises from electrical appliances, during broad daylight with the sounds of bustling crowds around us, or as the birds begin to chirp in...
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One Giant Leap

May 24, 2010
By Vei Zmeer
One Giant Leap

Chasidishkeit is not a way of life; it's a way of death. It manages to take everything exciting in life - food, sex, adventure, travel - and maul it, mangle it, distort it to a point where there's little left of their original allure....
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