Satire
Shlemple Joins the Army
Join Shlemple on a whimsical journey of soul crushing death and destruction. Sure to be...
Remembering Rabbi Noach Weinberg, Founder of Aish Hatorah
One of my earliest memories of Rabbi Noach Weinberg, also known by the more anglicized...
No Rest for the Wicked
The bible, so full of contradictory statements, is a perfect setting for Rorschach tests.
It’s all...
I Had a Dream
I was back in Aish Hatorah.
I guess like positivity childhood memories that resurfaced after I'd...
How to Write a Frum Novel
This was a post I wrote in my teens, while I was still very much...
Book Covers
One of my biggest struggles, even when I was still religious, was with the realization that as a person I had grown way more from therapy and self-help books than from any amount of “Torah wisdom”.
This was unacceptable to me. I didn’t want it to be this way. Torah...
The book cover that started it all. Looking back almost three years to the original comment, I see that I actually independently came up with many of these original ideas.
Other titles I can currently come up with include:
"Why? answers to life's biggest questions (that just create new questions instead)""The...
With the help of AI, I am now able to attend to my true calling of being a children’s storybook author.
This book is about pride.
Jewish pride.
The best kind.
Biography
Philosphy
“Moral Equivalency”
Much as militant religion is full of contradictory claims, each invoked at the right moment, militant ethno-nationalism...
Chapter #14: Light
It all fell apart one day, and I do not get credit for doing so.
The initiative came...
Fiction
Accounting
He never learned much math.
Math was limited to two hours a week with a secular studies teacher who spent more time shouting at...
Kiruv
Rule #1 of cults, according to the international society of cults, is don't call yourself a cult.
But what if others call you that? That could undermine the whole thing, the whole big plan for world domination.
Here's a great strategy - beat them to the punch, and make a joke about it at the same time.
Because if...
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 questions that plague you (and you know what they are),...