“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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The Day after Judgment Day
He felt the vibration on his waist. He removed the phone from its holster and glanced at the caller-ID screen. The number was unfamiliar, and so was the voice. But what it said send a shudder rippling down his…
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News Roundup – Fri. 2/12
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…
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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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