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From the Archives: Disturbed by the Bubble
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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From The Archives: The Dressing Room
A visit to an underground lingerie shop gives a young girl a peek into the secret world of Chasidic sexuality.
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From the Archives: A Tale of Two Chickens
A boy transfers his transgressions to a chicken -- but his sins are too great for the animal to bear.
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From the Archives: The Mask
A frustrated wife tries to negotiate her freedoms, and finally considers taking matters into her own hands.
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From The Archives: Sins as White as Snow
Flaunting her independence while in a Jerusalem seminary, a teenage girl buys a sweater, and changes her life forever.
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From the Archives: Green Tuesday
A yiddishe mamme tries to convince her son of the power of segulas.
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From the Archives: Sermon on the Hotline
Yoshke delivers a memorable shiur, surrounded by his students Avremel, Shimon, and Yidel.
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From the Archives: ‘Nafkeh Mineh L’kedushin’ and The Quadratic Equation
Samuel Katz discovers that sophisticated mathematics do not lend themselves to Talmudic processes.
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From the Archives: My Mind’s Shadow
God stalks Luzer Twersky, following him from Monsey to Vegas.
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The Self-fulfilling Prophecies of the Ex-Hasid
Do ex-Hasidim serve themselves well by establishing a community? Or does that only amplify the narrative of struggle and displacement, inevitably confining them to the fringes?
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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.
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