The dybbuk is not real. Who would’ve thunk? An investigative report on Israeli TV claims to have unmasked the fraud behind the dybbuk exorcisms in Israel by Rabbi David Batzri and others. One woman, previously the subject of an exorcism …
A few years after a fish talked in New Square thus proving that the God of Chasidim is the true one, another proof has surfaced. Rabbi Batzri is attempting to remove a Dubbuk from a Brazilian man inflicted with the …
Sex-Segregated Buses
By Shulem Deen
Will the outrage over sex-segregated buses effect change? Not until Hasidic women begin to speak out about it.
Deep Fried Words for the Squeamish
By Berel Berko
Thoughts on sushi eaters, words, and folk tales, from a seeker.
By Shtreimel
The Revolution. Nu? The one where the Goyim believe that all people were created by monkeys.
Vil’amsburg Diaries: Drinking, Singing, Kissing, Crying
By Hershy Tam
Now they’re all dancing. Men only. They stand on one side of the table. Hands on their neighbors’ shoulders. Eyes closed. “Ay ay ay, Va’toisef Ester va’tevakesh.”
Union Square Park
By Meagan Dwyer
I looked up; the sun had already given way to the night and I began to feel uneasy. I pulled out a cigarette, lit it up, and started shaking.
Booby Trap
Aug 22, 2011 / 5 Comments
The immodesty of large breasts.
The Stopengoh Effect
Jul 18, 2011 / 3 Comments
Revisiting history.
Shame on–whom?
Apr 29, 2011 / 4 Comments
Shame, a painful feeling of disgrace for having done something dishonorable or improper, is ‘first’ associated in the Bible with nudity. Somehow, though, women have come to bear the brunt of it.
