Asher got up, walked into his bedroom and returned with a bottle of wine and a mischievous grin. He was offering sex. For the Steins, sex was a tradeoff. This time he wanted to attend one of Dr. Feinberg’s conventions in Monsey.
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A Wonderful Goodbye
He has not spoken to his wife in four days. This is tolerable. After 38 years of her mounting nervous energy, a little peace and quiet is not unpleasant.
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Family Secrets
A young man, violated in the night by a family member, holds on to a painful secret.
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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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No Pro’lem
History repeats itself. Different group, different time period. Same old story.
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It’s All Kosher (No. 10): Starving For Advice
Yom Kippur: To eat or not to eat? That is the question.
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Blessings in Disguise
A peek under the tent of white prayer shawls during birchas kohanim, the priestly blessings during holiday prayers.
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Sex, Cheerios and a Ferret Tattoo
Jews don’t have sex. Goyim may rub their bodies together naked or something, but religious Jews, husbands and wives, they hug in their pajamas, maybe they kiss on the lips, and that’s how babies are made.
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Villamsburg Diaries: Back Again
“Don’t start again with the Internet!” Breindy says to me this morning. She is sitting with the kids at the kitchen table as I grab my tallis beitel. I tap my new EVO in my breast…
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To Cut or Not to Cut
Our fetuses’ sex was determined upon conception, but its genitals are not yet detectable to the human eye – although they have begun to form, tiny promises budding on a creature the size of a small strawberry (always in fruit,…
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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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