Every revolution needs a bus ride, and the Hasidic world has now had theirs. But can a revolution ever come to the Hasidic world?
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Occupy Rodney Street
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Sex-Segregated Buses
Will the outrage over sex-segregated buses effect change? Not until Hasidic women begin to speak out about it.
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Best of the Blogs
Meet My Baby
The baby and the bathwater. What to keep and what to throw away.
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Best of the Blogs
Golden Handcuffs
When the joy is gone and the benefits are mostly illusory, leaving may no longer be an option. A Dubneresque tale.
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Best of the Blogs
What is Footsteps?
Challenging a popular reputation of Footsteps, one man shares his perceptions of the organization.
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Advice Column
It’s All Kosher (No. 4): The Double Life Dilemma
The Posek advises a modern day marrano.
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Advice Column
It’s All Kosher (No. 3): One Pregnancy Too Many
The Posek advises a woman in her twenties who fears she might be pregnant. Yet again. For the sixth time.
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Advice Column
It’s All Kosher (No. 2): Bored and Lonely
A former chasid turns to the Unpious Posek for help in dealing with his boredom and loneliness.
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Opinion
When It Comes Time To Leave A Shul
Analyzing splinter groups and dissension in a shul, after recent events in New Square.
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Editor's Picks: From the Archives
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Green Tuesday
Chaim Mayer’s mother usually calls in on Thursdays to remind him to pick up the lokshen kugel for Shabbos, or of a family member’s shulem zucher, which s’volt gepast that he attend.
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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.
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