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Fiction

A Funny Guy

November 29, 2011
By Danny Hulkower
A Funny Guy

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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Tags: children, family, featured, marriage, Mercedes, sex, transsexual
Posted in Family, Fiction, Love & Sex, Readings, Topics | 15 Comments »

Fiction

A Wonderful Goodbye

November 7, 2011
By A.M. Yehuda
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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Tags: children, community, daughters, family, fathers, featured, Lakewood, off the derech, rabbis
Posted in Family, Fiction, Readings, Topics | 8 Comments »

Memoir

Family Secrets

November 2, 2011
By Yoel Parnes
Family Secrets

A young man, violated in the night by a family member, holds on to a painful secret.
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Tags: children, family, fear, featured, parents, secret, sexual abuse, siblings
Posted in Essays, First Person | 61 Comments »

Advice Column

It’s All Kosher (No. 11): Escaping Fatherhood

October 23, 2011
By The Unpious Posek
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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Tags: children, family, fathers, featured, off the derech, parenting, selfishness
Posted in Essays, Family, Off the Derech, The Unpious Posek, Topics | 43 Comments »

First Person

No Pro’lem

October 10, 2011
By Justin Alexander
No Pro’lem

History repeats itself. Different group, different time period. Same old story.
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Tags: bullying, children, education, featured, goyim, greenhorn, harassment, history, immigrants, prejudice, yeshiva
Posted in Essays, First Person, Readings, Religion, Topics | 30 Comments »

Advice Column

It’s All Kosher (No. 10): Starving For Advice

October 9, 2011
By The Unpious Posek
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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Tags: atonement, children, eating, fasting, featured, food, punishment, shul, sneaking, suffering, Yom Kippur
Posted in Family, Off the Derech, Religion, The Unpious Posek | 5 Comments »

Holiday Musings

Blessings in Disguise

April 25, 2011
By Pen Tivokeish
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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Tags: birchas kohanim, children, family, prayer, shul, synagogue
Posted in Contests, Essays, First Person, Winter 2011 Contest | 2 Comments »

Sex, Cheerios and a Ferret Tattoo

March 28, 2011
By FreiFem
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.

This is what I…


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Tags: children, empowerment, masturbation, modesty, sex
Posted in Blogs, FreiFem | 9 Comments »

Villamsburg Diaries: Back Again

March 14, 2011
By Hershy Tam
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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Tags: cheider, children, community, education, family, gemureh, Internet, Yiddish
Posted in Readings | 6 Comments »

To Cut or Not to Cut

March 9, 2011
By FreiFem

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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Tags: children, circumcision, Jewish tradition
Posted in Blogs, FreiFem | 14 Comments »

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