Archive for August, 2010

Hasidic historiography, inter-sectarian violence, the struggle against Breslov, and the case of Yitzchak Nachum Twerski.

Ne'echaz Basvach
By David Assaf
Mercaz Zalman Shazar

His hands are wrapped around me, my breasts up against his chest. He steps, his hips nudging my hips forward and back and suddenly to the side, the crying guitar sends his hands swinging wide, sends me spinning under…

A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.
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The room is quiet. I bubble in an answer on my sheet from the booklet of the SAT Reasoning Test. The test administrator stands next to the chalkboard, a young woman in her twenties. She checks the time and…

Itchie has a dolly.
He calls her Dolly.
Itchie loves his Dolly.
He plays with her all the time. He also has a friend.
His friend is the little Jew with the backpack.
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I had four children when I managed to leap off the train mid-journey to Doomsville. Sweet innocent children that I love dearly, but I had to leave them. It was too dangerous for them to jump with me. I…