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How I Left My Ultra-Orthodox, Ultra-Repressed Hasidic Community

Amy Benfer, Salon. March 4, 2012.

Deborah Feldman grew up in Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidic Jewish community, then secretly enrolled in college, left her husband and her family, and became a feminist blogger.

Atheists Do It Better: Why Leaving Religion Leads to Better Sex

Greta Christina, AlterNet. May 17, 2011.

A new study shows that religious people have as much sex as atheists, but with less sexual satisfaction and more guilt.

'Miral': Why Julian Schnabel's Palestine Makes Some Pro-Israel Factions See Red

Jordan Elgrably, Al Jazeera English. March 28, 2011.

Unraveling the pathos behind the anger at Schnabel's latest film.

Do Atheists Have God All Wrong?

Troy Jollimore, Truthdig. December 6, 2009.

A new book, "The Case for God," argues that prominent non-believers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are wrong. Is it based on wishful thinking?

Some Latinos Trace Their Jewish Roots

Amy Green, Christian Science Monitor. January 7, 2009.

"Hidden Jews" can trace their ancestry back to the Sephardic Jews of Spain.

The Mumbai I Remember

Andrew Marantz, AlterNet. December 12, 2008.

I have wandered those narrow blocks, those hotels. I once had dinner at the home of Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg, the murdered Chabad couple.

Circumcision: What's a Nonpracticing Jew to Do?

Bonnie Zylbergold, American Sexuality Magazine. April 14, 2008.

Circumcision remains one defining trait for Jewish men. But how does a Jewish feminist parent rationalize the tradition today?