Podcasts about Shulem Deen

In anticipation of our upcoming series, we want to share with you our episode with Shulem Deen, originally released in June 2020. In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David discusses with special guest and former member of the Ultra-Orthodox community, Shulem Deen, the struggle and importance of balancing one's individual needs with those of the community.Though many of us are aware of the extreme disconnect that exists between the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and the secular world, the result of this unfortunate dynamic offers powerful insight. In particular, the intense and likely under-discussed experience of ex-Ultra-Orthodox community members (a group referred to by many as ‘Off The Derech' or OTD) raises important questions about the reality of this intercommunity conflict and life as a modern Jew. In what ways do the religious and secular worlds misunderstand each other? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Ultra-Orthodox and secular worlds in facilitating a positive life for their members? How can we as individuals combat the inescapable myopia of living within a social bubble? Tune in to join David and Shulem in seeking answers to these important questions.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/18forty-podcast--4344730/support.

In this episode, we speak with Prof. Naomi Seidman about people leaving Orthodoxy and the related stories, experiences and misconceptions. She shares what she personally learned in leaving her Haredi community, as well as the insights of many others.   We also draw upon the 2016 study “Starting a Conversation: A Pioneering Survey of Those Who Have Left the Orthodox Community,” in which 885 people recounted their experiences, and we include some verbatim quotes from some of these people, explaining what motivated them and what they want the Orthodox community as a whole to know about their leaving.   Recommended: Prof. Seidman's excellent limited (four episodes) podcast series, Heretic in the House, from the Shalom Hartman Institute.   A couple of very worthwhile books are:   Shulem Deen's All Who Go Do Not Return, a National Jewish Book Award winner.  Prof. Schneur Zalman Newfield's Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.   In our "What Do You Want to Know?” segment, we answer a question we are often asked … how many people are leaving Orthodoxy. We cite Rabbi Zvi Grumet's 2018 study of high school graduates.  Many of the Orthodox community research studies we reference in this podcast are available and downloadable free at http://nishmaresearch.com/social-research.html.   Thanks to Leora Trencher for designing our logo, and to Elana Trencher and Aliza Levy for their audio support.  Orthonomics is produced by Scott Kahn of JCH Podcast Productions (http://jchpodcasts.com). 

Cześć! W tym odcinku zapraszamy do kolejnego już „Kącika z Audioteką”, która jest partnerem naszego podcastu! Tym razem każda z nas wybrała sobie inną tematykę, której chce się przyjrzeć. Ela skupiła się więc na zamkniętych społecznościach. Wysłuchała audiobooka Miriam Toews, „Głosy kobiet”, którego akcja dzieje się w zamkniętej społeczności menonitów, i postanowiła połączyć go ze wspomnieniami Shulema Deena, byłego chasyda. Paya z kolei zapoznała się z dwiema książkami o wojnie w Donbasie. Jedną z nich był rewelacyjny reportaż „Apartament w hotelu wojna”, który znalazła w ofercie Audioteki, a druga to powieść „Córeczka”, która literacko uzupełnia zaprezentowaną literaturę faktu. Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście: Miriam Toews, „Głosy kobiet”, tłum. Kaja Gucio, czyta Aleksandra Popławska, Czarne; Shulem Deen, „Kto odejdzie, już nie wróci”, tłum. Barbara Gadomska, Czarne; Tomáš Forró, „Apartament w hotelu wojna”, tłum. Andrzej S. Jagodziński, czyta Bartosz Głogowski, Czarne; Tamara Duda, „Córeczka”, tłum. Marcin Gaczkowski, KEW. Książki Miriam Toews posłuchacie tu: https://audioteka.com/pl/audiobook/glosy-kobiet Reportażu Tomáša Forró posłuchacie tu: https://audioteka.com/pl/my-shelf/audiobook/apartament-w-hotelu-wojna Partnerem odcinka podcastu jest Audioteka – dobrze opowiedziane historie, gdzie znajdziecie największy wybór audiobooków po polsku! Mamy Patronite! Jeżeli chcesz dołączyć do naszego grona Matronek i Patronów, będziemy zaszczycone! Dla tych, którzy zdecydują się nas wspierać, mamy spersonalizowane książkowe rekomendacje, newslettery głosowe, podziękowania na stronie i wiele więcej! Szczegóły tutaj: https://patronite.pl/juztlumacze Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze i na Facebooku https://www.facebook.com/juz.tlumacze oraz na naszej stronie internetowej https://juztlumacze.pl/ Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

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Shulem Deen is a writer, journalist, and author of the award-winning memoir All Who Go Do Not Return. He is a regular contributor to the Forward, and in 2015 was listed in the Forward 50, an annual list of American Jews with outsized roles on political and social issues. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Salon, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. He serves as a board member at Footsteps, a New York City-based organization that offers assistance and support to those who have left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Shulem Deen is a writer, journalist, and author of the award-winning memoir All Who Go Do Not Return. He is a regular contributor to the Forward, and in 2015 was listed in the Forward 50, an annual list of American Jews with outsized roles on political and social issues. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Salon, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. He serves as a board member at Footsteps, a New York City-based organization that offers assistance and support to those who have left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Shulem Deen is a writer, journalist, and author of the award-winning memoir All Who Go Do Not Return. He is a regular contributor to the Forward, and in 2015 was listed in the Forward 50, an annual list of American Jews with outsized roles on political and social issues. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Salon, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. He serves as a board member at Footsteps, a New York City-based organization that offers assistance and support to those who have left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

God Lets His Children Tell the Story· When dealing with theological difficulties raised in the text, we must remember the writers told the story from their point of view, with their limitations, within the cultural context in which they wrote. o What are some of the story telling points in the book of Esther?o What purposes do they serve in their own day? In succeeding generations?· When God lets his children tell the story, the way that story is told deeply and thoroughly influenced by the rules of ancient tribal societies that valued in their people taking land, vanquishing (killing or enslaving) their foes and generally bragging about who has the best gods and the best kings.o This “rule” is stamped all over the Old Testament.o This is a way of understanding why the Bible behaves the way that it does. Mordecai’s Decree§ Mordecai writes legislation giving the Jews the right to defend themselves against Haman’s legions. § Yet the right to defend was only a small part of the decree (8:11).§ What about the killing of women and children? And take the spoils of war?§ Why does Mordecai write all this?§ The key may be in 8:9.§ The letter is dispatched to every governor in the far-flung provinces of the Persian Empire.§ This decree is not about localized opposition but those who controlled the machinery of the state (provincial armies, police, fire department).§ The matchup is not so much about actual combatants but those who control the chaos.§ What will police and fire departments do when the mobs start to converge?§ Will they stand by and watch? Will they intervene?§ Mordecai knows whatever decree he writes in the name of the king must counteract the first decree of Haman.§ Every provincial governor has a decision to make. How can they intervene in the middle of a civil war?§ Mordecai’s decree needs to be every bit as violent as the first to pressure the politicians to act. Now What About Just War?§ The Just War theory is a philosophy that attempts to reconcile three things:§ Taking human life is seriously wrong§ States have a duty to defend their citizens and defend justice§ Protecting innocent human life and defending important moral values sometimes requires the willingness to use force and violence.§ The theory specifies conditions for judging if it is just to go to war, and conditions for how the war should be fought. § Although it was extensively developed by Christian theologians, it can be used by people of every faith and none. Perspectives from Jewish ScholarsThe slaughter in the story of Esther has troubled even Jews. Ellis Abraham Davidson, a prominent educator, was entrusted with publishing a version of the Hebrew Bible that would introduce its riches to the gentiles from a Jewish perspective, ended up cutting most of the stuff about the slaughter. There is an apologetic position for the messy business of bloodletting. There is a doubt that any Jew celebrating Purim really understood the gravity of what they were celebrating. Shulem Deen, a gifted writer and former Hasid, has credited the holiday for accelerating his decision to leave the Orthodoxy fold. He writes, “I wanted a world in which seventy-five thousand dead makes one shudder, if ever so slightly, before enjoying hamantachen and whiskey”.Does Purim have a place in the Jewish faith today?David Wolpe says …Purim is a holiday of masks. A mask doesn’t fully change you, but it obscures identity, distorting who you are. A mask permits you to assume a slightly different way of being in the world.In our day we appreciate why Purim is a holiday of masks. In the diaspora, Jews were forced to wear masks all of the time. In Muslim lands we were dhimmi, second class citizens subject to a vast range of indignities. But there was no protest against the status for Jews were powerless to change it. We wore the mask of acceptance and accommodation.In Christian Europe, Jews were regularly exiled, persecuted, belittled targeted for conversion, and sometimes killed. But in country after country, they donned the mask of the willing subject, because rebellion against their situation only made it worse. The few who did not wear a mask, the Mordechis who did not bow down, paid a terrible price.Final Thoughts on the Two DecreesRabbi Daniel Polish says holidays like Purim and Mardi Gras are marked “by a raucous atmosphere, the excessive consumption of intoxicants, masks and costumes” and both fall before “perhaps the major religious observance of their respective traditions… [Passover/Easter].”Purim is about the capacity of ordinary people to do extraordinary things. It’s about acting in the face of fear. And it’s about speaking truth to power.Like most history involving independence the morality of the decrees has been forgotten in the ongoing legacy of survival.

Cześć! Witajcie w siedemdziesiątym odcinku Czytu Czytu! Tematem tego odcinka będą książkowe debiuty, przy których zadajemy sobie kilka pytań: czy podchodzimy do książki inaczej, wiedząc, że napisał ją debiutant? Czego w debiutach nie lubimy? Czyjej pomocy koniecznie potrzebuje początkujący pisarz (spoiler: REDAKTORA)? I w końcu: jakie romantyczne mity wiążą się z całym zjawiskiem? Przyczynkiem do naszej dyskusji jest jedna z pozycji, które znajdziecie w naszych torebkach: Megu przeczytała debiut sci-fi „Axiom’s End” youtuberki Lindsay Ellis, a Kasia przełamuje lekką konwencję historii o ufo dwoma książkami o tematyce żydowskiej i opowie wam o „Kto odejdzie, już nie wróci” Shulema Deena i „Synapsach Marii H.” Hanny Krall. Omawiane książki: „Kto odejdzie, już nie wróci”, Shulem Deen, wyd. Czarne, 2020 „Axiom’s End”, Lindsay Ellis, wyd. St. Martin’s Press, 2020 „Synapsy Marii H.”, Hanna Krall, wyd. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2020 Czytu Czytu prowadzą: Magdalena Adamus (Megu) Katarzyna Czajka-Kominiarczuk (Zwierz Popkulturalny) Linki: Napisz do nas na: kontakt@czytuczytu.pl Subskrybuj nasz kanał na YT: Czytu Czytu Podcast Polub nasz fanpage na Facebooku: www.facebook.com/czytuczytu Odwiedź naszą stronę: www.czytuczytu.pl

In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David discusses with special guest and former member of the Ultra-Orthodox community, Shulem Deen, the struggle and importance of balancing one’s individual needs with those of the community. Though many of us are aware of the extreme disconnect that exists between the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and the secular world, the result of this unfortunate dynamic offers powerful insight. In particular, the intense and likely under-discussed experience of ex-Ultra-Orthodox community members (a group referred to by many as ‘Off The Derech’ or OTD) raises important questions about the reality of this intercommunity conflict and life as a modern Jew. In what ways do the religious and secular worlds misunderstand each other? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Ultra-Orthodox and secular worlds in facilitating a positive life for their members? How can we as individuals combat the inescapable myopia of living within a social bubble? Tune in to join David and Shulem in seeking answers to these important questions.

Continuing our series of discussions exploring religious freedom, Alastair Lichten spoke with Izzy Posen. Izzy grew up in the Chasidic community and attended an illegal, unregistered school where corporal punishment was routinely used, particularly to silence children who asked questions. He is now president of Bristol University's Free Speech Society This is part of a series of interviews leading up to our major conference in May, Secularism 2019: Reclaiming Religious Freedom: https://www.secularism.org.uk/2019 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspDkjqhgHo&feature=youtu.be Transcript: https://www.secularism.org.uk/transcripts Links from Izzy All Who Go Do Not Return Paperback, by Shulem Deen: https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Who-Go-Not-Return/dp/1555977057/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528899019 Shtisel | Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81004164 One of Us | Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80118101 The charity helping Orthodox Jews who want to break away from their faith: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p04n1x7p 'Why I had to leave my ultra-Orthodox family' - BBC News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=-5Tz6pLH7ig Autobiographical Talk at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London – 20th of March 2019: https://journeyerblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/23/autobiographical-talk-at-the-liberal-jewish-synagogue-london-20th-of-march-2019/ Make a stand for freedom, fairness and human rights by adding your voice to the call for a secular democracy. Join the National Secular Society today https://www.secularism.org.uk/join  

Shulem Deen is a writer, journalist, and author of the award-winning memoir "All Who Go Do Not Return." He is a regular contributor to the Forward, and in 2015 was listed in the Forward 50, an annual list of American Jews with outsized roles on political and social issues. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Salon, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. He serves as a board member at Footsteps, a New York City-based organization that offers assistance and support to those who have left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Follow Shulem on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/shdeen Buy his book here: All Who Go Do Not Return

What's the point of Judaism? What's it for? In this episode of Judaism Unbound, Dan and Lex examine that question and try to provide some answers to it. In doing so, they discuss and debate the role of rabbis in contemporary life, explore the idea of "religion," and reflect on recent conversations with Rebecca Sirbu, Rami Shapiro, and Shulem Deen. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here. To access full shownotes for this episode, click here!

Shulem Deen, author of All Who Go Do Not Return, a National Jewish Book Award-winning memoir that tells the story of his exit from ultra-Orthodox Judaism, joins us to understand the people who do and do not leave ultra-Orthodoxy, the needs and hopes of those who do leave, and the roles formerly-Orthodox people might play in the rest of the Jewish community and in re-imagining the Jewish future. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here. To access full shownotes for this episode, click here.

Shulem Deen was raised in an ultra-orthodox sect, the Skverers, considered too extreme even for other Hasidic Jews. He grew up speaking Yiddish in the middle of New York, married in his teens and had five children. Then everything began to change. His book All Who Go Do Not Return is a tell-all of both of the extreme insularity of Hasidic life, and the journey of his soul from the Skverers to the secular world he lives in today. It is a path of great discovery, and tremendous sacrifice. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel. 

Shulem Deen is the author of the  award-winning memoir All Who Go Do Not Return, an account of growing up in and then leaving the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the U.S. He is a regular contributor to Forward, and in 2015 was listed in the Forward 50, an annual list of American Jews with outsized roles on political and social issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Dan Clendenin. Essay by Debie Thomas: *The View from the Valley* for Sunday, 7 February 2016; book review by Debie Thomas: *All Who Go Do Not Return* by Shulem Deen (2015); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Night Train to Lisbon* (2013, Portugal); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *First They Came* by Martin Niemoller.

Finish out Exodus with this massive very big episode! Listen to Catie Lazarus, Shulem Deen, Luzer Twersky, and Wendy Chin read chapters 76 through 115 of David Tuchman's brand-new, not-boring translation of the Hebrew Bible!

First Draft interview with Shulem Deen

Cuts from First Draft interview with Shulem Deen

Shulem Deen is a former Hasidic Jew. Since leaving that world, he’s founded the website Unpious which is a voice for other ultra-Orthodox Jews who may be rethinking their faith. His new memoir is called "All Who Go Do Not Return." We spoke with Shulem about the hypocrisy of Hasidic Jews regarding modern technology, how that community reacted to an episode of This American Life focusing on them, and how America Online became his gateway to the outside world.

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice At fourteen, young Shulem Deen, a Hassid in Boro Park, New York, lost his loving father. How was he to deal with the enormous gap in his life that his father’s early death left? He embraced -and was embraced by – a pious spiritual community, the Skverer Hassidim, who had their own town, New Square, New York. In this discreet town of approximately 12,000, only 30 miles north of New York city, the Skverer Hassidim could control everything, or nearly so. So began Deen’s immersion in the life of the Skverer Hassidim, an Eastern European Hassidic group transplanted to the New World — without change! For a time, Deen’s new life worked. He studied, married, had children—but this thinking, questioning young man soon learned that there was no room for questions that challenged accepted norms of the community. How he navigated the need to be honest with himself with the demands of family he loved makes for a page-turning memoir. This well-written book takes the reader through little-known aspects of a Hassidic community, both its strengths and vulnerabilities. At once a wealth of psychological, sociological, and just plain interesting episodes as Deen grows and matures, All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir (Graywolf Press, 2015) rewards the reader with distinctive insights into the ultra-religious world of the Hassidim. Shulem Deen’s popular memoir about his life in an insular Hassidic community breaks new ground, written as it is from a male perspective. Having left New Square, Deen founded and edits Unpious, Voices of the Hassidic Friend, an online journal. He is on the board of Footsteps, an important New York-based group that helps people who choose to transition out of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world. Shulem writes for The Forward, Tabletmag, and other publications. His memoir has been hailed in newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post. He speaks regularly to audiences in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and elsewhere about his life and memoir. Read this compelling account of a young man’s immersion in an embracing spiritual community and his struggle to be true to himself and his loved ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice At fourteen, young Shulem Deen, a Hassid in Boro Park, New York, lost his loving father. How was he to deal with the enormous gap in his life that his father’s early death left? He embraced -and was embraced by – a pious spiritual community, the Skverer Hassidim, who had their own town, New Square, New York. In this discreet town of approximately 12,000, only 30 miles north of New York city, the Skverer Hassidim could control everything, or nearly so. So began Deen’s immersion in the life of the Skverer Hassidim, an Eastern European Hassidic group transplanted to the New World — without change! For a time, Deen’s new life worked. He studied, married, had children—but this thinking, questioning young man soon learned that there was no room for questions that challenged accepted norms of the community. How he navigated the need to be honest with himself with the demands of family he loved makes for a page-turning memoir. This well-written book takes the reader through little-known aspects of a Hassidic community, both its strengths and vulnerabilities. At once a wealth of psychological, sociological, and just plain interesting episodes as Deen grows and matures, All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir (Graywolf Press, 2015) rewards the reader with distinctive insights into the ultra-religious world of the Hassidim. Shulem Deen’s popular memoir about his life in an insular Hassidic community breaks new ground, written as it is from a male perspective. Having left New Square, Deen founded and edits Unpious, Voices of the Hassidic Friend, an online journal. He is on the board of Footsteps, an important New York-based group that helps people who choose to transition out of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world. Shulem writes for The Forward, Tabletmag, and other publications. His memoir has been hailed in newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post. He speaks regularly to audiences in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and elsewhere about his life and memoir. Read this compelling account of a young man’s immersion in an embracing spiritual community and his struggle to be true to himself and his loved ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award, Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice At fourteen, young Shulem Deen, a Hassid in Boro Park, New York, lost his loving father. How was he to deal with the enormous gap in his life that his father’s early death left? He embraced -and was embraced by – a pious spiritual community, the Skverer Hassidim, who had their own town, New Square, New York. In this discreet town of approximately 12,000, only 30 miles north of New York city, the Skverer Hassidim could control everything, or nearly so. So began Deen’s immersion in the life of the Skverer Hassidim, an Eastern European Hassidic group transplanted to the New World — without change! For a time, Deen’s new life worked. He studied, married, had children—but this thinking, questioning young man soon learned that there was no room for questions that challenged accepted norms of the community. How he navigated the need to be honest with himself with the demands of family he loved makes for a page-turning memoir. This well-written book takes the reader through little-known aspects of a Hassidic community, both its strengths and vulnerabilities. At once a wealth of psychological, sociological, and just plain interesting episodes as Deen grows and matures, All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir (Graywolf Press, 2015) rewards the reader with distinctive insights into the ultra-religious world of the Hassidim. Shulem Deen’s popular memoir about his life in an insular Hassidic community breaks new ground, written as it is from a male perspective. Having left New Square, Deen founded and edits Unpious, Voices of the Hassidic Friend, an online journal. He is on the board of Footsteps, an important New York-based group that helps people who choose to transition out of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world. Shulem writes for The Forward, Tabletmag, and other publications. His memoir has been hailed in newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post. He speaks regularly to audiences in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and elsewhere about his life and memoir. Read this compelling account of a young man’s immersion in an embracing spiritual community and his struggle to be true to himself and his loved ones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've finally reached one of the most important parts of the Bible: the part where God shows Moses his butt and God's butt breaks Moses's face. For real. Sure, sure, there's other stuff about forgiveness and laws and two possible versions of the Ten Commandments, but who cares about that when Shulem Deen, author of "All Who God Not Return," is reading about the glory of God's butt? That's right, no one. Listen now. There's no other reasonable thing to do.Get more at www.omgwtfbible.com, www.twitter.com/omgwtfbible, and www.facebook.com/omgbible

This week, we conclude Shulem Deen’s story.  In part I, we heard how the internet led him on a path where he was exiled from his community and separated from his family. In part II, Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the Hasidic community has tried to block off a corner of the internet for itself, and how this new, informal Hasidic internet might offer Shulem a way back.   Thanks for listening! Subscribe to our podcast at www.itunes.com/replyall! Sponsors: www.framebridge.com (offer code 'reply') www.stamps.com (offer code 'reply') www.mailchimp.com

Have you ever read the Bible? OK, but have you ever read the Bible on weed? In episode 31.1, Shulem Deen stops by OMGWTFBIBLE to talk about “All Who Go Do Not Return,” his new memoir, and also to talk about a controversial translation of the Bible that seems to include cannabis as part of the priestly anointing oil. Who knew? Also in this episode: the whole Golden Calf thing happens and there’s very probably an orgy. Join the fun and listen now!Get more at www.omgwtfbible.com, www.twitter.com/omgwtfbible, and www.facebook.com/omgbible  

Shulem Deen was a 22-year old and ultra-religious, a Hasidic Jewish person, when he bought a computer and signed up for America Online in 1996. Until then he'd never had a real conversation with someone outside his community. Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the internet ruined his life and how it might save it. Thanks for listening! Subscribe to our podcast at http://www.itunes.com/replyall! Sponsors:  Mailchimp (http://www.mailchimp.com) Blue Apron (http://blueapron.com - coupon code 'reply') Harrys Razors (http://harrys.com - coupon code 'reply')

Bookrageous Episode 73; Lit Lunch Intro Music; Lunch Box Jam from Fame What We're Reading Josh [1:15] All Who Go Do Not Return, Shulem Deen, March 24 2015 [3:30] Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman [3:40] Wonder, R.J. Palacio [5:00] Marvel Unlimited Preeti [6:20] Daredevil, Mark Waid and Chris Samnee [7:40] Pretty Deadly: The Shrike, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios  [8:45] Archie: The Married Life [10:30] The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman [11:15] The Young Elites, Marie Lu, October 7 2014 [12:30] Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey [12:55] Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (warning: plot discussion) Jenn [19:10] Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray [19:45] Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, September 9 2014 (Last Night in Montreal) [21:55] Kabu-Kabu, Nnedi Okorafor [23:00] GeekyCon, formerly LeakyCon [23:10] Harry Potter  [23:45] Jenn & Preeti met Daniel Radcliffe!  --- Intermission; School's Out by Alice Cooper --- Book Characters Who Would Sit at Our Lunch Table [25:00] borrowed from The Broke and the Bookish [25:20] Josh's list: Simon, Lord of the Flies Wade Watts, Ready Player One Peeta, The Hunger Games  Alma Whitaker, The Signature of All Things  Alice and/or Julia, The Magicians Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [30:00] Preeti's list: Hermione Granger, Harry Potter series  Imriel, Kushiel's Scion  Biff, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff  Mat Cauthon, The Wheel of Time series  Lyra and Pan, His Dark Materials series  Peter Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man  Kate Bishop, Hawkeye Meg Murray, A Wrinkle in Time  Alanna, Alanna: The First Adventure Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief [36:05] Jenn's table Hermione Granger, Harry Potter series Elizabeth Soames, The Gone-Away World Deathface Ginny, Pretty Deadly Tricia McMillan, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Narrator, The Dept. of Speculation Beka Cooper, Terrier Merry & Pippin, The Lord of the Rings [39:40] Book memes from The Broke and the Bookish --- Outro Music; Lunch Box Jam from Fame --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Next book club pick: What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund. Put BOOKRAGEOUS in the comments of your order to get 10% off from WORD Bookstores! Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Preeti Order Josh's book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.