Readers ponder if the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and question the difference between the bathwater and the baby, in this week's selected comments.
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September Shorts Contest – “My First Aveirah”
Read and vote for your favorite essays.
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How They Got Here: No. 16
We sum up the history of yiddish civilization and grant heterim in this week's search terms.
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How They Got Here: No. 10
Peruse Unpious search terms and commentary. This week featuring zerah levatal and pigeon poop.
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From the Sacred Texts of the Schmelves: Part II
On the eve of Yom Kippur we ask for forgiveness. If we have not wronged anyone, we slap someone and then we ask for forgiveness. If they refuse to forgive, we annoy them until they forgive. Then we must ask forgiveness for annoying them. Pregnant women are exempt.
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God of the Shoelaces
His name is Volf. A Chasid in his mid-thirties with a long black beard and wide unkempt payess, a pair of dark eyes set deeply beneath heavy eyebrows, a large forehead with wrinkled lines pointing to the heavens. His shoelaces…
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The Wrong Questions
I take a deep breath. I mustn’t seem too excited. I run a comb through my sheitel again and check the car mirror. Pretty pearl earrings, neatly styled wig. Modest, attractive, reasonable. Above all, I want to look…
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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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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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