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How They Got Here: No. 25

November 12, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
How They Got Here: No. 25

Kosel jokes, get-rich-quick ideas, thrifty BTs, and more, in this weeks search terms.
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News

News Roundup: 11/3/11

November 3, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
News Roundup: 11/3/11

Disappearing women, presidents and Hasidic zombie-rebbes, yeshiva students with excess-phlegm conditions, and more.
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Tags: Arab, billboards, Chabad, featured, Jerusalem, Jon Huntsman, Nosson Slifkin, Oprah, priest, punch, sheik, women, Yael Buechler, yeshiva student, zombie
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Announcing: November Shorts Contest – “Beyond the Mechitza”

November 2, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Announcing: November Shorts Contest – “Beyond the Mechitza”

Announcing the Unpious November Shorts Contest... "Beyond the Mechitza: Moving beyond boundaries and enclosures."
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Tags: contest, mechitza, shorts, shorts contest, women
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From the Archives: Disturbed by the Bubble

November 2, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
From the Archives: Disturbed by the Bubble

In the midst of an SAT test, Rihanna sparks a student's awareness of the chasm between Talmudic tests and college exams.
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Tags: education, exam, featured, Rihanna, Samuel Katz, SAT, test
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Comments of the Week

November 1, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Comments of the Week

A world without Orthodox Jews, God as a comedia, and more, in this week's comments selection.
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Tags: bands, discrimination, God, laws, Orthodoxy
Posted in Briefly Noted, Comments of the Week | 4 Comments »

How They Got Here: No. 24

October 31, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
How They Got Here: No. 24

Amish premarital sex, God's email address, RILFs, and more, in this week’s search terms.
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Tags: amish, hasidic, RILF, sexy, Yahweh
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Briefly Noted

Super-Kosher Sex: Natural vs. Unnatural Acts

October 27, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Super-Kosher Sex: Natural vs. Unnatural Acts

False rumors about anal sex do not tarnish a woman’s good name.
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Tags: anal sex, sex, slander, Talmud
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News Roundup: 10/27/11

October 27, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
News Roundup: 10/27/11

A member of Jerusalem's "Sikrikim" gang gets beaten, B110 bus company promises to stop discrimination, Chabad scares off a Russian sailing vessel from docking at a U.S. port, and more.


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Tags: Avraham Hirschman, Chabad-Lubavitch, discrimination, featured, Ger, Gerer Chasidim, Gerer Rebbe, ice cream, intermarriage, Israel, Jacob Marmurstein, Jewish Political Action Committee, Mea Shearim, Nazis, Private Transportation Corp., Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Russia, Schneerson library, sex-segregation, Sikrikim, violence, zealotry
Posted in News & Media | 11 Comments »

From the Archives: Dancing to the Blues

October 26, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
From the Archives: Dancing to the Blues

A woman tries a new form of dance, vastly different from the "Yidden" of her childhood.
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Tags: blues, dance, dancing
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Briefly Noted

How They Got Here: No. 23

October 26, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
How They Got Here: No. 23

Shmuley Boteach's newest bestseller, the evolution of sheitels, and more. In this week's search terms.
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Tags: boobs, Boteach, Lipa Schmeltzer, off the derech, sheitels, tsnius
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