Satire
Lights Out
In 1946, following the holocaust, a highly unusual event occurred, one that involved, for the...
Prepare to Meet Your Macher
He's a macher.
He can get you into seminary and out jail with a well placed...
Kiruv Oxymorons for the Ages
It took me a long time to realize this, but the kiruv system pulls some...
Ad Campaign for Freedom Cracker
I was honored, nay honored, to be part of the rebranding of one of the...
Only the Good Stuff
The book cover that started it all. Looking back almost three years to the original...
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...
Book Covers
If you believe in God from a philosophical point of view, you shouldn’t need any emotional scaffolding to keep things up.
The absurdity of one-off inspirational stories of any kind should be obvious to even the most casual of contemplators, and yet it forms a huge part of religious culture.
I...
Interesting anecdote about this book cover. It's a composite of two different Rabbi faces, i.e. it's not any specific Rabbi, so that I wouldn't poke fun unnecessarily at someone. That's how much of a tzadik I am.
From the back cover:
Rabbi Shlomo Levi Birenshmaltz (ZATZHA"L: of blessed, blessed memory), like...
“Judaism is about relationships,” sayeth the narrative. “It’s about aligning yourself with truth. It’s about becoming more like God, so that you can connect with God (how that doesn’t work is the subject of a separate article).”
Furthermore, “Only dim witted people, like women and children (a pretty direct paraphrase...
Biography
Philosphy
“Moral Equivalency”
Much as militant religion is full of contradictory claims, each invoked at the right moment, militant ethno-nationalism...
Mind The Gap
Sometimes when I wake up from a particularly deep sleep, my subconscious comes online before my conscious...
Our Father in Heaven
Our father in heaven they sayThe father of mercyBut as an almighty beingHe hath chosen to live...
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
This was a post I wrote in my teens, while I was still very much religious. As you can see, I was still very bothered by the absolutely abysmal quality of literate in the Jewish community.
BS”D
By C. Yackobovitch
Writing Frum novels can be an exciting, creative and rewarding experience. Not to mention the loads of money you can make;...
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 was wisdom for living, I was taught. It was God’s...