Satire
Aish Hatorah, Saviors of Souls
If one man can kill six million Jews, then one man can save six million...
48 Habits of Highly Effective People
One of my biggest struggles, even when I was still religious, was with the realization...
Genesis
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
When you think heaven, you probably think stars...
Returning to Footsteps
My partner and I recently attended a retreat organized by Footsteps, the organization that supports...
The Rabbi, The Rapist, and The Printing Press – A Tale of Mystery and Intrigue
Yeedle Kugelmacher was a pedophile.
Not those shady, creepy people who need to register as...
It’s Time to Pray
There’s a little booklet you can get, and it tells you when you can worship...
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...
See also, Anal.
"Never was there as happy a time," the Mishna says, "than Tu B’av. Because on that day all the young ladies would go out to the vineyards to sing and dance, and the dudes would hide in the trees and pick out the one they wanted to marry."
Have you...
Biography
Philosphy
I Had a Dream
I was back in Aish Hatorah.
I guess like positivity childhood memories that resurfaced after I'd dealt with...
Der Judenstaat – FINAL (3).doc
Hear me out. (No good idea ever started with that, did it?)
What if the entire Zionist idea...
Consider Death
Everybody should —in their lifetime consider death, To wonder what it will be like to go to...
Fiction
Sanbelat the Horny
Sanbelat the Horny was horny.
He adjusted the black hat and suit he was wearing, wiping the sweat from his brow. A black hat and...
Kiruv
Around two years ago, one of my siblings was struck in a hit and run accident.
They spent a day in the hospital before any of us family members even found out about it.
When we did, there were a few panicked hours as we tried to figure out what had happened to them, how they were doing, and...
For a long time, I was angry at religion for its own sake.
And don't get me wrong, the thing is full of irrational beliefs and oppressive ideas.
But I'm coming to appreciate over time how, like almost all things, Fundamentalist Religion is really just a tool - a stiff and largely inflexible construct, sort of like a dildo...