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Elite Riverdale School Fostered Intense Anti-Israel Climate, Parents Say
More than 100 parents at the elite Riverdale Country School in the Bronx criticized administrators for allowing what they described as intense anti-Israeli sentiment to fester on campus during a packed, emotional meeting the evening of June 11. The assembly was held at the start of the school’s summer break, days after the administration announced…
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Orthodox Group Must Call Out Sessions For ‘Tearing Families Apart’: Jewish Orgs
Progressive Jewish organizations called on the Orthodox Union to question Attorney General Jeff Sessions about his immigration policies during his scheduled speech at the OU’s annual Leadership Mission in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. Sessions is slated to focus on “religious liberty” and security for religious schools and synagogues when he speaks during the reception. The…
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Orthodox To Dominate American Jewry In Coming Decades As Population Booms
It’s been nearly five years since the Pew Research Center released its “Portrait of Jewish Americans.” Given its stark conclusions, the study ruffled some feathers even as it expanded our notions of Jewish community. It highlighted the impact of intermarriage and the growth of the Orthodox community, and has impacted policy making for Jewish communal…
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Riverdale Private School Investigates Teacher Over Israel Comments
A history teacher at an elite Riverdale private school is being investigated after some parents took issue with statements he made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to administrators and reports. Riverdale Country School instructor Shawn Redden’s job was in limbo after he engaged students in a history class following the killing of 60 Gazans by…
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Can A Catholic Guy Save This ‘Hellhole’ Jewish Cemetery — (And Why Hasn’t Its Own Synagogue)?
Bayside Cemetery in Queens is “abandoned.” It is “desecrated.” It is “the cemetery that nobody wants.” Well, nobody but Anthony Pisciotta. Just about every Sunday, Pisciotta, a Catholic man from the Bronx, romps through the knee-high undergrowth to maintain the parts of the cemetery that get the most foot traffic. He paints, he whacks weeds,…
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The Jewish Gastroenterologist Who Worked As An Agent For An Arab Sheikdom
By day, Dr. Joseph Frager is a gastroenterologist with a conspicuous mustache who is frequently listed as one of New York’s top doctors. But when he’s not seeing patients, he’s a powerful political operator, one of the most prominent and well-connected lay leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community in New York. Frager is a major…
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Ex-Camper Accuses Female Orthodox Counselor Of ‘Traumatic’ Sex Abuse
When Leah Sokolovsky was 15, she spent many Friday nights sleeping over at the home of the 20-year-old assistant head counselor of her ultra-Orthodox summer camp. The two had not been particularly close at camp. But during the school year that followed, the counselor, an ultra-Orthodox woman named Gittie Sheinkopf, cultivated Sokolovsky. Sokolovsky says Sheinkopf…
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Slain Psychiatrist Who ‘Dealt With Worst’ Remembered For ‘Seeing The Best’ In World
At first, the killings seemed random. Dr. Steven Pitt, a nationally respected forensic psychiatrist, was shot outside his office in Scottsdale, Arizona. The next day, two people were shot outside a law firm across town. It wasn’t until a fourth body surfaced, and police received an anonymous tip, that it became clear the killings were…
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Is A Private Community In Suburban New York Targeting Hasidic Jews?
The first Hasidic couple to move to Highland Lake Estates alleges that on their first night in the new house, the head of the community’s homeowner’s association shined the headlights of his car into their home for twenty minutes. Other Hasidic families say they woke up to find their mailboxes vandalized or destroyed. Once, the…
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Jewish Candidate Could Save Democrats From Disastrous California ‘Jungle Primary’ Loss
Democrats received some potentially disaster-avoiding news when a recent poll showed Democratic candidate Mike Levin leading in the much-watched race to fill Rep. Darrell Issa’s Southern California seat. The state’s 49th district, which extends north from San Diego, could be key to Democrats taking back the House of Representatives –- Hillary Rodham Clinton carried it…
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Reform Rabbi Was Secretly Censured For Affair With Congregant
When a Reform rabbi resigned from his Durham, North Carolina synagogue recently, the synagogue’s lawyer said the problem was “sexual in nature.” Now the Forward has learned what those words meant. The rabbi had a yearlong, sexual relationship with a woman who regularly worshipped at the synagogue. The Reform movement’s rabbinical association had censured him…
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