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Shulem Deen

Shulem Deen is the founding editor of Unpious.com, a journal for voices on the Hasidic fringe. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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This is how I lost my faith: Science helped, yes — but finally I accepted the holy texts were written by man

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“You must be doing it wrong”: Sex lessons from the Hasids

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The sound of sin

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