A woman in search of her bubby's gefilte fish finds it at Ossie's in Borough Park.
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First Person
A Fishy Encounter
First Person
The Get
Although desperate for her freedom, a Satmar woman finds her heart breaking as her husband grants her a divorce.
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First Person
Brahmins and Brachos in Pushkar
A Brahmin priest and a Chabad shliach argue theology with a traveling atheist.
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First Person
Uncharted Waters
A mother struggles to guide her daughter with a new, confusing set of moral anchors.
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First Person
Why Play the Victim?
A soldier contemplates Jewish persecution while waiting for his pesachdike chicken soup.
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Humor
The Joke Is On You
Shpitzle steals from the mikva and submits herself to the horrors of universal feminine rituals.
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Memoir
My God Gene
Does our genetic code dictate our religiosity? A woman who tried to join the charedi world ponders the limits of her own predisposition to spirituality in the face of cruelty.
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Memoir
Broken in Germany
An adventure in Germany exposes unanswered questions and unavoidable realities.
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First Person
Skin is Skin
A Muslim doctor reflects on her father’s anti-Semitism and her love for a Jewish classmate.
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From the Archives
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Who Are We?
By A.M. Yehuda
Who are we, us refugees from the Charedi world? Are we victims, broken people? Or are we wholesome assimilants to secular society?
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A Clear Mind
The man came to her bed and kissed her passionately. She liked him a lot. And yet, not the way he loved her. ‘‘I don’t mind if you love other girls,” she said.
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It’s All Kosher (No. 8): Saying Goodbye
A distraught son wonders how to say goodbye to his dying mother.
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Fitting In
Celebrities flit around a Chasidic wedding.
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Links and Chains
By Yonah
Hands in pockets are wrong, my father says to my son. “Why, zaidy?” my son asks. “Because it’s what the goyim do,” my father says, lovingly stroking his grandson’s cheek.
FreiFem: The Unpious Double X
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A Rose By Any Other Name
Jul 22, 2011 / 2 Comments
What do you call yourself?
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Who Are Your Heroes?
Mar 10, 2011 / 4 Comments
Tuesday was International Women’s Day, and a time to reflect: Who are the historical or mythical female heroes in our “frei” movement?
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Our Last Twelve Hours Alive
May 20, 2011 / 3 Comments
What would you do if the world was ending in twelve hours?
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB…
By Shulem Deen
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From Salon.com: How one little Panasonic radio tore apart my marriage -- and my faith.
From The Brooklyn Ink
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Article on Jacob Gluck of Hasidic Williamsburg Tour and Unpious contributor Yakov Yosef.
From The Village Voice
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Profile of Brooklyn's Shomrim patrol groups, featuring Luzer Twersky. To read some of Luzer's essays, click here.
From NPR: All Things Considered
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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.
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