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Best of the Blogs

How to Go Off the Derech: A Halachic Guide

October 25, 2011
By Israel Kogan
How to Go Off the Derech: A Halachic Guide

The well-known machlokes on going off the derech le'mehadrin min hamehadrin.
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Tags: atheist, Chabad, chasiddish, critical thinking, Da'as Hedyot, fairy tale, fanatic, halachah, modern orthodox, off the derech, religion, yeshivish
Posted in Best of the Blogs, Essays, Off the Derech, Religion, Topics | 9 Comments »

Memoir

Perfect Fruit

October 19, 2011
By Joe Johnson
Perfect Fruit

A young man is guided by cherished memories when purchasing an esrog.
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Tags: customs, esrog, featured, holidays, lulav, questions, religion, sukkah, Sukkos
Posted in Essays, Family, First Person, Reflections, Religion, Topics | 7 Comments »

Best of the Blogs

Meet My Baby

October 18, 2011
By Da'as Hedyot
Meet My Baby

The baby and the bathwater. What to keep and what to throw away.
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Tags: baby and bathwater, featured, frumkeit, God, Judaism, kosher, religion, shabbos, yiddishkeit
Posted in Best of the Blogs, Essays, Off the Derech, Opinion, Religion, Topics | 19 Comments »

Best of the Blogs

The Fence

October 12, 2011
By Fence Sitter
The Fence

Straddling the religious and secular divide.
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Tags: community, featured, off the derech, purpose, religion, society
Posted in Best of the Blogs, Essays, Off the Derech, Religion | 40 Comments »

Memoir

Sin

October 5, 2011
By Amy Klein
Sin

A memoir of Yom Kippurs past.
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Tags: atonement, family, featured, High Holidays, memoir, religion, repent, shul, sin, synagogue, Yom Kippur
Posted in Family, First Person, Religion | 7 Comments »

Comment of the Week

September 20, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Comment of the Week

Levi Keller reminds us of our perpertual audience when we have sex and Critic V's Rosh Yeshiva teaches him that it's OK to skip davening.
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Tags: evolution, Footsteps, marriage, religion, sex
Posted in Briefly Noted, Comments of the Week | 2 Comments »

Opinion

The Apikores

July 19, 2011
By Gutman Braun
The Apikores

An Apikores reflects on his Epicurean inclinations.
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Tags: apikores, Epicurus, frumkeit, Opinion, religion, Voltaire, yeshiva
Posted in Essays, Off the Derech, Opinion, Reflections, Religion, Topics | 19 Comments »

First Person

Thou Shalt Not Lie

July 7, 2011
By Shira Chaimowitz
Thou Shalt Not Lie

A young woman finds freedom in a place of complete surrender.
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Tags: featured, hospital, pain, psychiatry, religion, suicide
Posted in Contests, Essays, First Person, Off the Derech, Religion, Winter 2011 Contest | 11 Comments »

Fiction

Betraying My Soul

July 5, 2011
By Yisrael Feuerman
Betraying My Soul

A young boy eavesdrops on a man's confession to his Rabbi.
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Tags: bored, prayer, rabbis, religion, Yankees
Posted in Contests, Fiction, Readings, Religion, Winter 2011 Contest | 4 Comments »

Who Are We?

January 9, 2011
By A.M. Yehuda
Who Are We?

Who are we, us refugees from the Charedi world? Are we victims, broken people? Or are we wholesome assimilants to secular society?

A. M. Yehuda gives us some food for thought.


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Tags: enlightenment, Haskalah, identity, off the derech, post-Orthodoxy, religion, Samuel Katz
Posted in Essays, Off the Derech, Opinion, Religion, Topics | 50 Comments »

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