Satire
Dvar Torah Generator
Attending a Bar Mitzvah and lost for words?
Trying to impress your future father in...
Ba’al Teshuva, or: “Mental Health Issues”
I have alluded to this before in other scathing posts, but it's becoming more and...
Shloimie’s Shtark Shiurim
Is your yiras shomayim growing thin? Is your inspiration waining? Are you certain you're doing...
Olives
So it had come to this. He was dead, and it was judgement time.
His first...
A Neurotic Journey Through the Jewish Calendar
Join me on an exciting adventure through the Jewish year, as we explore how each...
They Stone Gays, Don’t They?
This one’s a doozy. Bear with me. Also, if you have a bit of context,...
Book Covers
See also, Anal.
The kiruv world prides itself in its open-mindedness.
"Ask us anything! We will change our views in a heartbeat if you convince us! Sure you can ask about sex, and no, we don't use a hole in the sheet, we're super progressive!"
But ask yourself, have any of the really difficult...
If you believe in God from a philosophical point of view, you shouldn’t need any emotional scaffolding to keep things up.
The absurdity of one-off inspirational stories of any kind should be obvious to even the most casual of contemplators, and yet it forms a huge part of religious culture.
I...
Biography
Philosphy
Israel Didn’t Have a Right to Exist
With all the shit that has been going down in Israel, I figured it was about time...
God’s Not Mad, He’s Just Judging You
One word:
Eluuuuuuuuuuuuuuul
In No Way Are You Absolved
After my last post went Shalom Tzvi level viral (as defined by the odds in which someone...
Fiction
Der Judenstaat – FINAL (3).doc
Hear me out. (No good idea ever started with that, did it?)
What if the entire Zionist idea was just a first draft for an...
Kiruv
Mental health in the Orthodox world is a catastrophe.
It's gotten marginally better in the Orthodox community in the United States, but in Israel the shitshow still reigns supreme.
It starts with the absolute stigmatization of any mental health issue. Physical ailments aren't great either, but mental health ones are on another level. Any sign of it before marriage...
We're currently in family therapy, all nine of us and two parents. Even with sessions being 90 minutes long, that gives each of us 8 minutes a week to talk about what is most important to us, assuming the therapist doesn't talk at all. (spoiler: she does)
The best possible scenario for people to be seen and heard, and you...