June Caption Contest! Win $25!

 Posted by on June 7, 2012
Jun 072012
 

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Hello dear readers and commenters and lurkers and loyal Hasidim! It’s that time of the month again, the time when you have the very rare and wonderful opportunity to put a caption on an as-of-yet uncaptioned cartoon… and win a very valuable prize in the process! Yes, the winning caption, chosen by the same mysterious process as before, will win $25 REAL dollars again!

Please vote (click ‘like’) on the comment containing the caption you like most. We may or may not take your vote into account: that is part of the mystery. Exciting! Here, the cartoon… but first, let me thank all the entrants in last month’s caption contest. Thank you! You make this blog what it is. Yes, yes, the cartoon:

A Hasidic woman on a therapy couch

Therapy

On Hasidic Aliens

 Posted by on June 5, 2012
Jun 052012
 


Space Ship copyIt is clear as day that Hasidim are aliens and we from the outside transport ourselves to this be-sidecurled, pregnant specie with a UFO or gravity defying spaceship. Hasidism seems to be the least understood culture in America, and this lack of understanding often leads to sweeping dehumanization of thousands of people. I always felt a strong urge to demystify the strange soul of Hasidim, to show the human spirit, motives and mechanism that drives these “zombies”. I have written and discussed Hasidism with insiders, outsiders, fringers and aliens — always with this aim. Even when I was Hasidic I had been willing to speak to media just so I could try to articulate