Disappearing women, presidents and Hasidic zombie-rebbes, yeshiva students with excess-phlegm conditions, and more.
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News
News Roundup: 11/3/11
Announcements
Announcing: November Shorts Contest – “Beyond the Mechitza”
Announcing the Unpious November Shorts Contest... "Beyond the Mechitza: Moving beyond boundaries and enclosures."
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Memoir
Family Secrets
A young man, violated in the night by a family member, holds on to a painful secret.
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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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News
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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First Person
Teacher of the Year
A Chumash teacher encounters an old acquaintance among the parents of her young students.
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Best of the Blogs
How to Go Off the Derech: A Halachic Guide
The well-known machlokes on going off the derech le'mehadrin min hamehadrin.
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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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Advice Column
It’s All Kosher (No. 11): Escaping Fatherhood
A young father, estranged from his three-year-old child, would rather forget he's a dad.
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Memoir
Perfect Fruit
Best of the Blogs
Meet My Baby
First Person
Facing the Music
First Person
No Pro’lem
History repeats itself. Different group, different time period. Same old story.
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Advice Column
It’s All Kosher (No. 10): Starving For Advice
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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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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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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News
News Roundup: 9/29/11
This week: radical feminist agitators, a ban on lulavim and advice for criminals.
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First Person
Running With Strangers
A subway rider begins to challenge the idea that all goyim are frightening strangers.
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From the Archives
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Villamsburg Diaries: Back Again
By Hershy Tam
“I heard you have Internet,” Reb Mordche said to me, and then he dropped the real bomb. “And what’s this I hear, you’re writing for treifeneh websites?!”
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The Mom Delusion
This woman may or may not be happy, but she is clearly overburdened. I’ve seen the weary symptoms and I know the type.
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Why Play the Victim?
By Ari Mandel
A soldier contemplates Jewish persecution while waiting for his pesachdike chicken soup.
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Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud
Cathy’s ass was toward the flat side, but she had a face that reminded me of Eva Langoria. I’d have done her in a heartbeat, except she hardly looked my way.
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Dancing to the Blues
By A.M. Yehuda
I want to panic. My brain sends jerky messages of stop! And what the hell and aaaaaah to my hips and thighs. You don’t know how to do this!
FreiFem: The Unpious Double X
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WTF (What The Frum) Happened?
Sep 21, 2011 / 7 Comments
News coming out of the religious community seems to get worse and worse.
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Shabbos Party with Ants
Jul 25, 2011 / 2 Comments
A body’s tolerance changes.
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Honey Money
Sep 9, 2011 / No Comments
Is beauty more important than we admit?
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.
