Satire
Genesis
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
When you think heaven, you probably think stars...
Olives
So it had come to this. He was dead, and it was judgement time.
His first...
The Paperclip, The Thumbtack, & The Toilet Plunger
Shloime the Website Builder of Chelm presents...
Kiruv vs. Orthodoxy: Blue and White Edition
I had more fun making this than I did in a long time. Something about...
Die Trung
This being a satire website, I couldn't resist satirizing my own book cover, creating a...
Lost, Not Found
The 80s get a bad rap. For synth music and terrible fashion. Generalized away in...
Book Covers
See also, Hashgacha Pratis.
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...
“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...
Biography
Philosphy
Meaning’s Search for Man
When I left religion, I lost the reason to get out of bed in the morning.
Aish...
Why Zionists Love The Holocaust
Without the Holocaust, Zionism would not have succeeded. It was a fringe movement, ignored by assimilated secular...
Musings on Religion
https://soundcloud.com/shalom-tzvi-shore/with-alex-shandrovsky
Recently, in light of recent events, a friend of mine asked to have a call with me, which...
Fiction
The Book of Life, or Something
“On Rosh Hashanah, we pray to be inscribed in the book of life,” explains Rabbi Feigenkrantz. “On Yom Kippur, Hashem seals the deal.”
It was...
Kiruv
I was back in Aish Hatorah.
I guess like positivity childhood memories that resurfaced after I'd dealt with parental trauma, my subconscious felt I was ready to find some good beneath the wreckage.
The building was even bigger and more magnificent - and more rambly. I wandered through towering mazes of limestone and glass. This was the Old City, we...
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...