My Essays

23 Feb What it is like to grow up in Kiryas Joel

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Revisiting a reflection on Kiryas Joel...

15 Feb I’m a licensed tour guide (again)

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Reflections on a second round at licensing...

25 Aug Book posting: ‘Off the Derech, Leaving Orthodox Judaism’

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This post will not really be a book review, because...

02 Aug Street poster: blaming illness on immodesty

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Analysis of how faiths link tragedy to what people wear...

09 Feb New essay in Tablet Magazine on conformity

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Link in post...

02 Sep Hasidic Satmar creative writing

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On discovering an old notebook...

23 Jun Foreword to My Memoir on Patreon

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Starting next week--a memoir project...

11 May Shopping–A memoir excerpt

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An excerpt from a memoir I started in 2015, made...

29 Apr The Affair

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A piece of short fiction for my Patreon supporters...

29 Apr New essay in Forward on the difficulty of making it after leaving

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New article available at the Forward...

18 Apr I’m in a dystopia again

Posted at 11:35h in Covid19, Juxtopositions, My Essays 4 Comments

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Echos of a groupthink past in our "new normal"...

05 Apr Why I believe it’s important to criticize shows like Unorthodox

Posted at 22:15h in My Essays, Outsiders-Looking-In, Unorthodox 15 Comments

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Our stories told by creators with no skin in the...

27 Mar The Get

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This essay was originally published in 2010 in the now...

15 Jan A reply to Hasidic men

Posted at 07:19h in Gender, Marriage, My Essays 38 Comments

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What about Hasidic women?...

28 Jun About this blog

Posted at 10:28h in My Essays, On the tours 5 Comments

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What and why I write here....

07 Jun Tour-guide diary: a scary Hasidic man causes trouble

Posted at 17:15h in Gender, My Essays, On the tours 9 Comments

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Not everyone is welcoming....

23 Jan The people who police others have templates

Posted at 10:20h in Artifacts, Censorship, Clothing, Education, Gender, My Essays, Street posters 2 Comments

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A template for sending friends, neighbors, relatives anonymous "notices" about...

24 Aug Scratchoffs

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A true story...

11 Apr My Resistance, Mrs. Feinman

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On trying to write while being haunted by old ghosts....

18 Mar Hasidic handshakes at the White House

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Yes. Okay, it wasn’t my hand he wasn’t shaking; it...

31 Jul How my childhood was like the Rockettes

Posted at 18:25h in Cartoons, My Essays 12 Comments

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I often compare my Hasidic childhood in Kiryas Joel to...

13 May On the Fink Summit

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Friends have been asking me about the meeting I attended...

26 Jul On the Bicycle

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Twenty-five is a tough age to first learn to ride...

Afder the insanity of the double life comes the insanity of the single life

06 Apr After the Double Life

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Nora Ephron describes the single's life most aptly. "I thought...

An Hasidic woman shaving a married woman's head

02 Oct On women shaving all their hair

Posted at 21:29h in Artifacts, Cartoons, Gender, My Essays 46 Comments

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How can you cartoon about shaving? You have to. Because...

24 Sep On Chazzonus

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When I did my undergraduate college degree, a one-year process...

A Rabbi asks a shiksa under a lie detector whether she's happy

17 Jul On Happiness

Posted at 21:02h in Cartoons, My Essays 23 Comments

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"And they lived unhappily ever after". So ends the famous Hasidic...

21 Jun On Leaving

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Leaving Brooklyn...

30 May The joke beyond the bathhouse

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I once stole a big laminated poster from the mikva....