Deborah Feldman was born and raised in the Hasidic community of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, UNORTHODOX: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots (Simon and Schuster.) Currently, she is working on a follow-up memoir, which finds her embarking on independence as a single woman and mother, finding a new kind of Jewish life for herself, and discovering the far-flung yet familiar community of many like-minded "religious refugees" of all faiths around the world, due out from Blue Rider Press, Penguin, in October of 2013.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Join me at the first reading of I Am Forbidden, by Anouk Markovits, this evening at 6 p.m. at the Corner Bookstore!
My response to Chaya’s Essay on XO Jane titled “What Women’s Media needs to know about Chassidic Women.” I will be video-blogging about Hasidic topics in the media if you would like to make any suggestions.
Yiddish Signs Order Women In Williamsburg To Step Aside When Men Pass
I understand that, according to Hasidic interpretation of the Torah, unmarried men and women are not supposed to touch in any way, shape, or form. This is, however, a terrible, blatantly sexist, and illegal way to encourage this religious observation. But I would like to point out that this sign, when translated into English, does not ORDER women to do anything, but requests them to. I am pro-feminism, pro-separation of church and state, and anti-bullshit.
Jewish ‘Huppa’ (Wedding), 1876 (oil on canvas painted on cardboard)
Maurycy Gottlieb
The Jewish GLEE!
The Maccabeats - Book of Good Life
“Replace the guilt with inspiration… Shana Tova to everyone.”WHY ARE THEY NOT ON GLEE YET?!!!
- Sign the petition
- Join the Facebook group
- Reblog this post (and if you’re feelin’ it, this post)
- Pray to Hashem (I mean, if they can do it over football games, we can do it over this)
MACCABEATS ON GLEE!!!
