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Five Hundred Pages

November 8, 2011
By Shulem Deen
Five Hundred Pages

"Who are you?" the crowd around us seemed to ask, staring at the long sidecurls I stubbornly refused to hide beneath my yarmulke.
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Tags: chavrusa, featured, gemara, kolel, music, Pete Townshend, rock and roll, Talmud, The Who, yeshiva
Posted in Best of the Blogs, First Person, Readings, Reflections | 8 Comments »

Briefly Noted

Super-Kosher Sex: Natural vs. Unnatural Acts

October 27, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Super-Kosher Sex: Natural vs. Unnatural Acts

False rumors about anal sex do not tarnish a woman’s good name.
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Tags: anal sex, sex, slander, Talmud
Posted in Briefly Noted, Super-Kosher Sex | 8 Comments »

Briefly Noted

Comments of the Week

October 25, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Comments of the Week

Readers discuss eating on Yom Kippur and what is actually meant when someone answers a question with "It's complicated", in this week's selected comments.
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Tags: crime, education, joke, Satmar, Talmud, Yom Kippur
Posted in Briefly Noted, Comments of the Week | No Comments »

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Super-Kosher Sex: The Virginity Test

October 7, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
Super-Kosher Sex: The Virginity Test

Testing a woman's virginity by placing her on a barrel of wine, then sniffing.
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Tags: featured, Rabban Gamliel, sex, Talmud, virginity, wine, women
Posted in Briefly Noted, Super-Kosher Sex | 10 Comments »

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Comments of the Week

October 4, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
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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Tags: cholent, kiruv, Lipa Schmeltzer, Rashi, shabbos, Talmud, yeshiva
Posted in Briefly Noted, Comments of the Week, News & Media | No Comments »

Super-Kosher Sex: Horny Snakes

September 29, 2011
By Unpious.com Staff Writer
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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Tags: Daf Yomi, Rashi, shabbos, snakes, Talmud
Posted in Briefly Noted, Super-Kosher Sex | 18 Comments »

Burning Desires

February 22, 2011
By Samuel Katz
Burning Desires

When is our relationship to books and ideas so intense that we want to burn them?

I dreamed that I stood near a large bonfire and watched the flames consume my once-favorite book. Piles of the same book were stacked one on top of the other and the fire spiraled around the pile, browning...
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Tags: book burning, college, fire, Ritva, Talmud, yeshiva
Posted in Essays, Reflections | 35 Comments »

No Thanks, Mom and Dad

January 25, 2011
By Luzer Twersky
No Thanks, Mom and Dad

“What am I paying tuition for?!” my father's shrieking voice echoed through our home. He sat opposite me at the table brutally kicking my legs from under it. My mind was unavailingly trying to escape the physical and emotional pain and make sense of it all.

“What do you do in cheider?! Do I work...
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Tags: cheider, child abuse, children, education, parenting, Talmud
Posted in Essays, Family, First Person, Topics | 26 Comments »

News Roundup – Thur. 3/25

March 26, 2010
By Berl Blackman
News Roundup – Thur. 3/25

A section of the Jerusalem Talmud’s Tractate Bikkurim is now intelligible. No, really, it is. It was once missing a sentence, but the sentence has now been found in a tin can in the Geneva University, part of the…


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Tags: Barack Obama, Barzilai Medical Center, Benyamin Netanyahu, Cairo Geniza, Egged, fraud, gefilte fish, matzos, Mindy Myski, Nathan Myski, news & media, Pupa-Tzehlem Matzah Bakery, Satmar, Shulem Weiss, Talmud, Yakov Elon, Yakov Litzman, Yisrael Eichler
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Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud

March 3, 2010
By Chezkel Shammes
Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud

One who sees his evil inclination getting the better of him should dress in black and go to a place where he isn’t known.

That’s the famous passage in the Talmud that played in my head over and over like…


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Tags: sexuality, sin, Talmud
Posted in Essays, First Person, Love & Sex, Religion | 116 Comments »

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