March 2012
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Excommunicated after Refusing Arranged Marriage →
sarahlawrencegirls:
The Princeton Review released its annual college rankings lists earlier this month, including lists of the top 20 schools with the most religious and least religious students.
The top five schools with the least religious students are: 1) Bennington College in Bennington, Vt. 2) Reed College in Portland, Ore. 3) Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. 4) Vassar College in...
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The writer and his gay dad join 50,000 Hasids on a pilgrimage to Ukraıne.
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The Story behind "Unorthodox"
When I started the first chapter of my memoir in September 2009, the blank page on my computer screen terrified me. Where to begin, I wondered? There was so much material to mine from, enough to fill ten books. How could I narrow it down so that the narrative arc came across clearly and accessibly to the average reader? It seemed like an impossible task.
My life has always been chaotic. Not only...
