Satire
The 5 Spiritual Love Languages
Judaism teaches that our interpersonal relationships are just a key to relating to God, especially...
Die Trung
This being a satire website, I couldn't resist satirizing my own book cover, creating a...
How to Write a Frum Novel
This was a post I wrote in my teens, while I was still very much...
Happy
I think this one actually best expresses the issue that bothers me the most.
Conditioning for Pleasure
I’ve been working with a coach on experiencing pleasure. It’s not that I haven’t experienced...
Holy Shmita
The Bible: And every seven years, leave your land fallow and do not farm it....
Book Covers
I struggled for a long time with the clash between my own values, own way of doing things, and own personality, and the confines of Jewish law.
What if I don't like to be surrounded by other men three times a day as we supposedly talk to God?What if I'm...
I hate this time of year.
I hate personal growth that gets scheduled on a calendar. A month where everyone goes on their best behavior, like they’re being audited by some heavenly oversight authority.
I hate scripted apologies. A specific time of year wherever everyone needs to ask everyone else to...
Good news: if you have money, even being A Good Jew in The Eyes of God™ is easier.
Instead of slaving away getting your house clean for Passover, just sell your house to a non-Jew (awesome loophole, Rabbis!) and go to the nearest tropical resort you can find. There, you...
Biography
Philosphy
Fighting from The Rear (aka My Ass)
Growing up, the narrative that Ultra Orthodox Jews (aka "Charedim") had as to why they weren't serving...
God. Night. Moon.
Having grown up deeply ingrained in the Orthodox Jewish world view, it’s a constant process for me...
Learning to Live
I have been practicing caring for my inner child for many months now, focusing on providing it...
Fiction
Olives
So it had come to this. He was dead, and it was judgement time.
His first grade Rebbe had warned him about this moment. Rosh...
Kiruv
The 80s get a bad rap. For synth music and terrible fashion. Generalized away in three syllables, faster than you can say, well, The 80s.
The decades before it are nostalgic.
60s – when rebellion was first invented.
70s – when it was perfected, exploding with psychedelia and bellbottoms and afros.
But the 80s, I have come to realize, had a lot of...
You’re the daughter of a King! A king! How awesome is that?
Not as awesome as being a son, apparently.
I’ve heard, ad nausem, all the apologetic explanations about how women are not less, they’re just DIFFERENT. How the true home is built around the Jewish woman (Look! Jewishness passes through the mother!).
But is that really what it looks like?...