Disappearing women, presidents and Hasidic zombie-rebbes, yeshiva students with excess-phlegm conditions, and more.
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News Roundup: 10/27/11
A member of Jerusalem's "Sikrikim" gang gets beaten, B110 bus company promises to stop discrimination, Chabad scares off a Russian sailing vessel from docking at a U.S. port, and more.
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Briefly Noted
How They Got Here: No. 23
Shmuley Boteach's newest bestseller, the evolution of sheitels, and more. In this week's search terms.
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Opinion
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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Comments of the Week
Readers ponder if the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and question the difference between the bathwater and the baby, in this week's selected comments.
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Comments of the Week
Animal cruelty during kapporos, thoughts on the "wine barrel virginity test" and more, in this week's selected comments.
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Special Report
The Price of Atonement
PETA and kapparos; the battle over one of charedi Judaism's most bizarre customs. An investigative report.
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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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Comments of the Week
Listening to Lipa Schmeltzer on Shabbos afternoon with a tummy full of cholent, Rashi's interpretive perversions, and more. In this week's selected comments.
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Briefly Noted
How They Got Here: No. 22
Mark Twain's greatest literary work, how to get laid as a yeshiva bochur, and more. In this week's search terms.
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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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From Tablet: A former Hasid moves to hipster Brooklyn. But what he gains in nightlife, he loses in camaraderie.
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