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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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News Roundup – Thurs. 9/1/11
This week: kiruv/molestation formulas, Rabbi Indiana Jones and why God drowned twenty Nigerians.
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How They Got Here: No. 15
Peruse Unpious search terms and commentary. This week featuring Twersky condoms and Jimmy Dean's Chasidic brother.
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News Round Up – Thurs. 7/28/11
Art, the TSA and Faceglat, in this week’s News Roundup.
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News Round Up – Thurs. 7/21/11
Cover-ups, memorial songs and restraint, in this week’s News Roundup.
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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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“He Who Acquires Wisdom”
It began to irk me as a young 14 year old, still still early on in “the system,” still idealistic and naive about yeshiva and Lubavitch. I was the first of my classmates to get one, which made me feel…
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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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News Roundup – Thur. 3/11
First she was the Mahara”t, a “manhigah hilkhatit, rukhanit, toranit.” Then she was upgraded to a “rabbah.” But now Sara Hurwitz’s title might be in question. Hailed as the first woman to be ordained as anything close to an…
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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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