Two Brooklyns, worlds apart. Or are they really?
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Reflections
Film
From Rebel Teenager to “Off the Derech” Filmmaker
Anna Wexler describes the journey that led to the making of her feature documentary film, “UNORTHODOX: A Jewish Journey.”
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Best of the Blogs
Five Hundred Pages
"Who are you?" the crowd around us seemed to ask, staring at the long sidecurls I stubbornly refused to hide beneath my yarmulke.
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Best of the Blogs
Oh, Baby!
Dealing with a husband's BCAD -- or Birth Control Anxiety Disorder. Holding the rebbetzin hostage, attending Bonei Olam parties, and more.
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Opinion
Occupy Rodney Street
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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Memoir
Perfect Fruit
A young man is guided by cherished memories when purchasing an esrog.
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Memoir
A Kofer’s Conscience
A heretic is forced to accept an aliyah in shul, and agonizes over the consequences of his sin.
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Best of the Blogs
Smoke and Mirrors
A Chasid wrestling with a double life watches his struggles vanish in a puff of smoke.
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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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Profile of Brooklyn's Shomrim patrol groups, featuring Luzer Twersky. To read some of Luzer's essays, click here.
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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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From Tablet: A former Hasid moves to hipster Brooklyn. But what he gains in nightlife, he loses in camaraderie.
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