Cnaan Lipshiz (JTA)
By Cnaan Lipshiz (JTA)
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Fast Forward London police break up 400-person illegal wedding at haredi Jewish school
(JTA) — Police in London broke up an illegal wedding party with 400 participants that was held at a Jewish haredi school. The organizer of Thursday’s wedding at Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School, which violated emergency measures put in place to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, are facing a fine of $12,000 each,…
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News Ukrainian City Braces for Hasidic ‘Invasion’
Balancing her voluptuous figure on high heels, Alexandra Rostov boards a minibus at Kiev’s Moskovskyi bus station, setting down her zebra-patterned bag as the driver starts the Soviet-era clunker. Like thousands of Ukrainians, Rostov is heading to Uman, a sleepy city of some 85,000 in central Ukraine, to find work associated with the annual pilgrimage…
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