“We can feel sad, but not bitter or angry; that's for people with no aibishter,” they said, as my brother’s dead body lay nearby, still warm.
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Comments of the Week
A world without Orthodox Jews, God as a comedia, and more, in this week's comments selection.
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Best of the Blogs
Meet My Baby
The baby and the bathwater. What to keep and what to throw away.
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Memoir
A Kofer’s Conscience
A heretic is forced to accept an aliyah in shul, and agonizes over the consequences of his sin.
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Fiction
The God Delusion
I shall give thee a corner office, with a nubile maiden to attend to thy needs -- secretarial matters only, verily. Beware unto thee, lest thine eyes wander to her bosom and I shall smite thee and banish thee back to page 7 of the Job.com listings.
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From the Archives: My Mind’s Shadow
God stalks Luzer Twersky, following him from Monsey to Vegas.
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The Green-Eyed Monster
Questioning career choices that lack the conviction of God's will.
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How They Got Here: No. 7
Peruse Unpious search terms and commentary. This week featuring shidduchim and tznius.
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My Journey: Hashem, Buddha, Allah, Darwin
Unpious Forum commenter ThisPieceisMine asks about the religious paths and proclivities of us unpious, so I thought I’d share a little bit about mine – and I’d love to hear about yours.
When I left the Charedi community as…
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Lord of the Wimps
Hasidic Judaism, Game Theory, and the Case for an Unpowerful God
It seems like many OTD-ers – actually, Jews in general – look at God as an all-or-nothing proposition: either He is this terrible, fearful, angry guy who’s always threatening you, or He doesn’t exist. But there are other possibilities.
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Editor's Picks: From the Archives
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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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From The Brooklyn Ink
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Article on Jacob Gluck of Hasidic Williamsburg Tour and Unpious contributor Yakov Yosef.
From The Village Voice
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Profile of Brooklyn's Shomrim patrol groups, featuring Luzer Twersky. To read some of Luzer's essays, click here.
From NPR: All Things Considered
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An interview with Samuel Katz about his journey into the secular world. To read some of Samuel's essays, click here.
By Shulem Deen
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From Tablet: A former Hasid moves to hipster Brooklyn. But what he gains in nightlife, he loses in camaraderie.
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