I'll just restate my main opinion, starting with my own personal experience:
I hate Purim. As an introvert and highly sensitive, the justification for noise, chaos, and zero respect for personal space or belongings would stress me to no end.
Yeshiva guys would invade the house asking for money. A friend...
I recently crowdsourced a list of things people had been told or taught during their stint with Orthodox Judaism. None of these are my own. I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.
I've organized it by topic to make it easier to digest and jump to your favorite...
I think I was still religious when I made these. The writing was on the wall. Facebook wall, that is.
This a real ad, saving me the effort of needing to Photoshop things.
Here's a breakdown for those of you who don't speak retard.
The headline:You're toilet trained.Your pimples are mostly gone.You know how to read a book in another language. You respectfully listen to everything you're told, including this ad.Go...
Even More Freidom
My Rabbi is Bigger
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me this, I'd have enough money to...
Chapter #4: Good and Evil
When I became bar mitzvah, things got intense. I knew that everything until then had been child’s...
Teabagging
There is a tradition, at the Eisenkopp Yeshiva for Fine Young Men, that when you make yourself...
What is a Baal Teshuva?
Oh boy, let me fill you in.
The literal definition of Baal Teshuva means "master of repentance/return"....
Have a Nice Trip
Psychedelics have played a key part in my growth and healing past traumas.
When I have spoken...
