Archive for May, 2010

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 the wee small hours of dawn. We like to vary...
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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. It has a particularly vicious stranglehold on sex. In high schools...
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The Mark of Cain

May 24, 2010
By Ruchy Fiedler
The Mark of Cain

I.

his hands were speckled in cheerful red polka dots
and Cain thought (just as he reached the end
of his psychonautical journey)
that he’d…


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Beyond the Illuminating Partition

May 20, 2010
By Ashmedai the Great
Beyond the Illuminating Partition

“Shechinala, Shechinala!” God called to the Holy Ghost with a sweet voice, and because he likes her, he said her name twice.

“What now?” came the impatient response.

“It’s been a long time…


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The New Weavers

May 18, 2010
By Pen Tivokeish
The New Weavers

Portraying the inner workings of a religious community provides for ample camera material. Judgement was an episode on the BBC TV series Silent Witness back in 2008. A team of pathologists investigate a…


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Anonymous No Longer

May 16, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
Anonymous No Longer

In June of 2003, I met with a writer for The Village Voice in a kosher café in Midtown Manhattan. Over a diet coke, with the writer’s recorder on the table between us, I spoke about my blog, my views on religion, and Chasidic society. I’d been hesitant, apprehensive about the inevitable publicity following...
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News Roundup – Thur. 5/13

May 13, 2010
By Berl Blackman
News Roundup – Thur. 5/13

Another incident of Charedim in Mea Shearim getting angry about something or other and turning the streets into a war zone. This time it’s over the arrest of a Charedi


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