Satire
Shit People Teach in the Name of Religion
I recently crowdsourced a list of things people had been told or taught during their...
Discourse
Rabbi Chananya said: who is a dumbass? he who walks four cubits without his head...
If We Were a Cult, Would We Be Making This Joke?
Rule #1 of cults, according to the international society of cults, is don't call yourself...
Ba’al Teshuva, or: “Mental Health Issues”
I have alluded to this before in other scathing posts, but it's becoming more and...
Happy
I think this one actually best expresses the issue that bothers me the most.
Sefira, Baby
Rabbi 1: Summer is coming, brace yourself.
Rabbi 2: oy vey, summer? People have way too...
Book Covers
This one’s a doozy. Bear with me. Also, if you have a bit of context, you’ll know this ones strike quite close to home. TL;DR at the end.
Here’s how the spiel goes: Judaism is amazing. It’s enlightened. It’s changed the world for the better. Judeo Christian values are da...
“No other religion claims to have experienced public revelation. Therefore, it’s a claim that is so outlandish, that it must have actually occurred because otherwise no one else would have been stupid enough to believe in it, or brazen enough to ‘introduce’ it into the cultural narrative.”
Thus goes the...
Good news: if you have money, even being A Good Jew in The Eyes of God™ is easier.
Instead of slaving away getting your house clean for Passover, just sell your house to a non-Jew (awesome loophole, Rabbis!) and go to the nearest tropical resort you can find. There, you...
Biography
Philosphy
The Sweetness of Melons
"Never was there as happy a time," the Mishna says, "than Tu B’av. Because on that day...
Consider Death
Everybody should —in their lifetime consider death, To wonder what it will be like to go to...
Seven Years
One of the most important days to me, far more than my birthday, is the day I...
Fiction
Lights Out
In 1946, following the holocaust, a highly unusual event occurred, one that involved, for the first time in history, the unification of different sects...
Kiruv
From the back cover:
Are you worried that someone from the secular world will ask you a question about Judaism that you don’t have an answer for?
Are you heading out to a campus to inspire others about Judaism with only a tenuous amount of knowledge of it yourself?
Are you concerned that all the things you do that make zero sense...
You’re the daughter of a King! A king! How awesome is that?
Not as awesome as being a son, apparently.
I’ve heard, ad nausem, all the apologetic explanations about how women are not less, they’re just DIFFERENT. How the true home is built around the Jewish woman (Look! Jewishness passes through the mother!).
But is that really what it looks like?...