Satire
Perpetuating Trauma
I was 11 or 12 years old when my school took us to the neighborhood...
The Paperclip, The Thumbtack, & The Toilet Plunger
Shloime the Website Builder of Chelm presents...
Pew Pew
Gedlya Goldfinger holstered his PsalmRay.
Whereas the rest of the Goyishe Velt used neutron chips and...
Shloimie’s Shtark Shiurim
Is your yiras shomayim growing thin? Is your inspiration waining? Are you certain you're doing...
Lost, Not Found
The 80s get a bad rap. For synth music and terrible fashion. Generalized away in...
Teiku
What lost objects are your own, and which must you return to their owners?Rabbi Akiva...
Book Covers
Having grown up deeply ingrained in the Orthodox Jewish world view, it’s a constant process for me to re-examine what I was taught. Some things obviously rubbed me the wrong way, and I questioned them as part of my journey.
Other things were less aggravating, so I simply accepted them...
A precursor of things to come...
In Judaism, we're taught, everything has the right context.
Some days, you shouldn't eat anything.Other days, you should stuff yourself like a pig.
Some days you shouldn't have sex at all.Other days, sex is a big mitzvah.
Some days, you should be happy.Other days, sad.And others still, you should get so blacked...
Biography
Philosphy
You Still Suck
Recent Netflix productions like Unorthodox and My Unorthodox Life have been painting Orthodox Judaism in a shitty...
A Response to “My Unorthodox Life”
The following is a guest post by an anonymous contributor. I found their response articulate, poignant, and...
Deconstructing Nationalism vs. Religion
At this point, I have left both the religion and the nationalist views I was raised with....
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
An interview with Rabbi Shalom Tzvi Shore, spiritual leader of the anti-Kiruv movement. This article is part of a series written by the weekly publication Yated magazine, written in their signature broken English and bad grammar that is a mainstay of Orthodox Jewish culture.
Speaking with Rabbi Shalom Tzvi Shore, you wouldn’t know he was so full of passion.
At least,...
Yeedle Kugelmacher was a pedophile.
Not those shady, creepy people who need to register as sex offenders.
He was of the Rabbi-therapist variety.
You know that whole catholic priest stereotype? Kind of like that, but you need to swap out Catholicism with a different set of arcane beliefs.
Now, before you go accusing him of being a monster, remember:...