Sexual repression in the frum world will lead some to follow aberrant impulses. It is time we talked about it.
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Posts Tagged ‘community’
Opinion
The Frum Pedophile
Fiction
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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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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Advice Column
It’s All Kosher (No. 1): Trapped in New Square
A young woman who is desperate to leave New Square asks the Unpious Posek for advice.
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Villamsburg Diaries: Back Again
“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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Leaving Charediism
When will we read of a comprehensive investigation into the dark side of Charedi Judaism?
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Report
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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Yossele the Troublemaker
My classmate Yossele didn’t have much of a head for studying, but he sure had a mind full of tricks. Dead mice, aplenty at our school, figured in many of them.
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Opinion
The Self-fulfilling Prophecies of the Ex-Hasid
Do ex-Hasidim serve themselves well by establishing a community? Or does that only amplify the narrative of struggle and displacement, inevitably confining them to the fringes?
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