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Meet My Baby
The baby and the bathwater. What to keep and what to throw away.
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Briefly Noted
Comments of the Week
Listening to Lipa Schmeltzer on Shabbos afternoon with a tummy full of cholent, Rashi's interpretive perversions, and more. In this week's selected comments.
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Briefly Noted
How They Got Here: No. 22
Mark Twain's greatest literary work, how to get laid as a yeshiva bochur, and more. In this week's search terms.
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Super-Kosher Sex: Horny Snakes
How to tell a snake you’re not that into him, and what to do once he crawls into your vagina.
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September Shorts Contest – “My First Aveirah”
Read and vote for your favorite essays.
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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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Vil’amsburg Diaries: Ba’al Tefilah
“Git Shabbos, Reb Hershel,” the gabbai says to me with a smile. “Minche?”
He has it down to a science, Reb Yossel the gabbai. Every other week he asks me the same question. He needs someone to lead the services…
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Vil’amsburg Diaries: Erev Shabbos
The house smells like a Friday afternoon. Ajax, some unidentified scent, and delicious Shabbos food. The washing-machine spins noisily, the little kids fight over a coloring book and the older kids fight over which of the younger ones…
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Tu B’shvat Murmurs
From the comments on a Facebook invite for a traditional Friday night meal:
Host: “I need someone to help me with the zemiros.”
Token non-Jewish girl on the invite list: “What’s a zemiro?”
Overheard at Tu B’shvat meal:
Host…
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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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