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  • February 6, 2012

Welcome, Pen Tivokeish!

January 11, 2010
By Shulem Deen

We expect to have a number of well-known Chasidic bloggers and commentors contribute regularly to this blog. The first that has joined is the erstwhile Pen Tivokesh, blogger extraordinaire, author of the very fine blog Penned In – Writing in Confinement.

What will Pen be writing about? Chasidim, for one. Because that’s what I asked him to write about. But, then again, he might just write about Highway Codes and Grimm Brothers’ Tales.

A Chasid writing about Grimm Brothers? For real? Let’s hope not. Hager brothers, Teitelbaum brothers, Twerski brothers, now those are things we care about. Ah, but there lies the rub. Pen doesn’t kowtow to the the public. The public kowtows to him and his masterful prose. Welcome, Pen. We look forward to your contributions.

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Author: Shulem Deen (28 Articles)

Shulem Deen (a/k/a Hasidic Rebel) is Unpious.com's founding editor. A former Chasid, he is the author of the Hasidic Rebel blog, which he has been writing since 2003. His articles have appeared in the New York Daily News, The Forward, Brooklyn Rail, Nerve.com, Tablet, TribeVibe, and elsewhere. He can be emailed at shulem.deen@unpious.com.

One Response to “ Welcome, Pen Tivokeish! ”

  1. Pen Tivokeish on January 13, 2010 at 5:31 am

    Thank you HR, and for all your hard work, for making it happen.

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