A world without Orthodox Jews, God as a comedia, and more, in this week's comments selection.
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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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Hair
It feels like it was only yesterday that she was teaching me the laws of taharas hamishpacha. “When he is inside of you,” she had said then, “think only of righteous men.”
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From the Archives
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Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Leader of Charedi “Yeshivish” Community, Dies at 102
By A.M. Yehuda
A look at how Elyashiv transformed Yeshivish Judaism.
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Interview with Professor David Assaf
By Frieda Vizel
The scholar and author on Hasidic history speaks about his work, his views on contemporary Hasidim, and whether it is true that the Sadigura rebbe condemned him to hell.
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A Goy at the Shabbos Table
A non-Jewish woman finds camaraderie and acceptance among a group of Chasidim.
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Sixteen Inches
By Shtreimel
“All these atheists,” he said with a triuphant look on his face, “with all their technology and all their machines, and nothing. They can’t even predict the weather.”
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It’s All Kosher (No. 10): Starving For Advice
Yom Kippur: To eat or not to eat? That is the question.
FreiFem: The Unpious Double X
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Movie Star Fantasies
Mar 25, 2011 / No Comments
Life has a funny way of weaving itself together, with mirrored ribbons reflecting themes over and over again, flashing mirages of past experiences, unexpected reminders of things long gone.
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‘Ad Masai’? Until When?
Apr 27, 2011 / 4 Comments
Sometimes I wonder (hope?) if some of the cultural and social norms of the religious world are the same as those of the secular world, only with a time lag.
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The Kvetch of a Pregnant Woman
Mar 10, 2011 / No Comments
I find myself wondering about frum women: How can they desire, let alone assert, their rights in the fog of illness and hormones of pregnancy and birth, year after year?
ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB…
By Shulem Deen
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From Salon.com: How one little Panasonic radio tore apart my marriage -- and my faith.
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.
