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A Chasid wrestling with a double life watches his struggles vanish in a puff of smoke.
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Chasidim debate whether a heretic must die.
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How do we know what is true?

This was the question a friend put to me not long ago, after a lengthy discussion on the relative merits of homeopathy versus antibiotics and of germ-theory versus the sin-theory of disease.…

What is really so terrible about the Chasidic lifestyle?
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A Serious Man has been called hilarious comedy, genius high-brow tragedy, the best Coen brothers film, the Jewy-est, most auto-biographical Coen brothers film, a modern day story of Job, a medieval story of a dybbuk, and much else besides. But mostly it has been called dark and funny, confusing and mysterious. Dark and...
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K’vod Harav,

I am most honored and humbled to have been invited to participate in this lofty endeavor together with individuals of such peerless talent and unparalleled genius. However, there are a few small issues that stand in the way of what would’ve…