An O-D-E to the O-T-D.
An old friend sent me an email last week: Can you give me / an O-T-D / who as far as I can see / isn’t / depressed? Can you give me / an O-T-D / who has found / Success?Read more »
Archive for September, 2010
Success
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Memoir
A Tale of Two Chickens
A Tale of Two Chickens
The shochet’s hands were slow and unsteady. The line moved forward at an agonizingly slow pace. The rain was still pounding, and I struggled to keep the chicken in one hand while keeping my umbrella steady in the other.
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Lord of the Wimps
Hasidic Judaism, Game Theory, and the Case for an Unpowerful God
It seems like many OTD-ers – actually, Jews in general – look at God as an all-or-nothing proposition: either He is this terrible, fearful, angry guy who’s always threatening you, or He doesn’t exist. But there are other possibilities.
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Editor's Picks: From the Archives
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Green Tuesday
Chaim Mayer’s mother usually calls in on Thursdays to remind him to pick up the lokshen kugel for Shabbos, or of a family member’s shulem zucher, which s’volt gepast that he attend.
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The Departed
A report on the Footsteps organization and the lives of those who leave the ultra-Orthodox world. Article by Orli Santo.
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB…
From The Brooklyn Ink
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Article on Jacob Gluck of Hasidic Williamsburg Tour and Unpious contributor Yakov Yosef.
From The Village Voice
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Profile of Brooklyn's Shomrim patrol groups, featuring Luzer Twersky. To read some of Luzer's essays, click here.
From NPR: All Things Considered
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An interview with Samuel Katz about his journey into the secular world. To read some of Samuel's essays, click here.
By Shulem Deen
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From Tablet: A former Hasid moves to hipster Brooklyn. But what he gains in nightlife, he loses in camaraderie.
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