Announcing the Unpious November Shorts Contest... "Beyond the Mechitza: Moving beyond boundaries and enclosures."
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Announcing: November Shorts Contest – “Beyond the Mechitza”
Contests
September Shorts Contest – “My First Aveirah”
Read and vote for your favorite essays.
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Announcing: September Shorts “My First Aveirah”
A great opportunity for both new and accomplished writers! Enter a short submission to our new contest!
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Contest Update: Winner Announcement
Announcing our winners for the Winter 2011 Submission Contest.
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2nd Unpious.com Submission Contest: Vote Now!
Our judges have chosen our five finalists for our Readers’ Choice Award and Runner-Up. Vote now for your favorite essay!
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First Person
Girls Night Out
Night on the town with the girls. And sterling reputations to preserve.
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First Person
Black And White Nights
A yeshiva boy's Tel Aviv adventure promises everything he was looking for, but leaves him with more questions than answers.
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First Person
Thou Shalt Not Lie
A young woman finds freedom in a place of complete surrender.
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Humor
From the Sacred Texts of the Schmelves: Part II
On the eve of Yom Kippur we ask for forgiveness. If we have not wronged anyone, we slap someone and then we ask for forgiveness. If they refuse to forgive, we annoy them until they forgive. Then we must ask forgiveness for annoying them. Pregnant women are exempt.
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Editor's Picks: From the Archives
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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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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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