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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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