Satire

On Mental Health

Mental health in the Orthodox world is a catastrophe. It's gotten marginally better in the...

Mai Hai

Fear. It was the name of the entire minority. There are Blacks, there are Hispanics, there are...

Chapter #12.5: Independence

As all this darkness and such was unfolding I found myself in a top rabbinical...

Deception

This one is a kiruv special, not aimed at Judaism as a whole. "Did you know...

Dik Picks

You want proofs of God? I'll give you proofs of God. How is it, that...

Genesis

In the beginning God created heaven and earth. When you think heaven, you probably think stars...

Book Covers

If I had a dollar for every time someone told me this, I'd have enough money to start my own religion. Or at least my own congregation. Same difference, really. Everyone seems to have some magical elusive Judaism that I'm missing out on."Your Judaism is not like my Judaism.""You should...
It's been a while. Can you tell I'm angry? I guess this one has been too painful to even make fun of until now. I think this claim is probably the most pretentious and disappointing claim I encountered in Judaism. Let's leave aside the whole Rav Arush bullshit about women being the...
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...

Biography

Quotes and Memes

Philosphy

Joseph Joins the Army

My brother joins the Israeli military tomorrow. My main emotion is sadness, which is saying a lot...

Anal

So, yeah, in case you didn't know. This is totally a real law. If you didn't wipe...

Chapter 16: Spreading Wings

I have long had a tenuous relationship with Israel. Israelis as a collective bug the shit out...

Fiction

Pushka

Velvel couldn’t stop dreaming about Magda Pritzovsky. Every Sunday, he’d see her headed to the Greek Orthodox church with the extra little crosses on top...

Kiruv

“You know what Olam Habah is?” Explains the Slonimer Rebbe. “Olam Habah is the entire earth covered in dump trucks full of gold. And then stack them on top of each other until you reach the sky.” That’s a fuckton of gold. Go get some. -- “Love me, daddy,” says Michael Friedberg, deftly plucking the strings of his guitar while explaining the finer...
              Shimon and Shmuesster are proud to present the newest title in the "Rebbi Stories" collection. Each title lovingly written and embellished, we strive to present you with the most accurate and inspirational accounts of the lives of the gedolim past and present, in order that their story be a beacon of light in the vast stormy sea of...