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News Measles Is Hitting Ultra-Orthodox Communities. Why Aren’t They Vaccinating?
The worst measles outbreak in recent New York history is hitting the Hasidic Jewish community due to low vaccination rates. With 55 cases in Brooklyn and 116 in two upstate counties since late September, it is the second time in five years that the community has seen a measles crisis. The previous record outbreak, in…
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Fast Forward Kiryas Joel Secedes From Municipality And Renames Itself ‘Palm Tree’
(JTA) — The Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in New York became what is said to be the first official haredi Orthodox town in the United States. Kiryas Joel on Jan.1 became the town of Palm Tree when it officially split from the Town of Monroe located in New York’s Orange County, the Times Herald-Record…
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News Orthodox Panic Over Yeshiva Rules As New York Democrats Grab Reins
In the final weeks of 2018, New York’s Orthodox Jewish community went into full-blown panic mode. One Orthodox newspaper in Brooklyn, the Flatbush Jewish Journal, ran the screaming front-page headline “ATTACK ON OUR YESHIVAS!” in red, inch-high letters. “The Jewish people will not bow down or surrender to the wicked, not even before the commissioner…
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Opinion El Al Should Apologize For Smearing The Orthodox Over Shabbat Flight Debacle
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An El Al flight was delayed and ultimately diverted because “Right Wing Ultra-Orthodox Passengers” forced others to acquiesce to their outlandish religious requests. In the most recent example, a November 15 flight from New York to Tel Aviv was so delayed that many passengers were worried they…
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Fast Forward Petition Calls On Ultra-Orthodox Group To Condemn Anti-Vaxxers Ahead Of Conference
A petition is calling for a major ultra-Orthodox umbrella group to condemn anti-vaccination on the eve of the group’s national convention. An anonymous person calling themselves Dovid Fields started a Change.org peitition to get Agudath Israel of America to state that vaccines are not harmful. Anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are popular in some segments of the…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox El Al Passengers Force Two Flights To Ground So As Not To Be In The Air On Shabbat
Ultra-Orthodox passengers forced an El Al flight from the U.S. to Israel to land in Greece Friday afternoon over concerns that they would still be in the air as the Jewish Sabbath began, the Daily Mail reported. One flight was diverted to Rome, while the other had to land in Athens. Both planes had been…
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Community Brooklyn Hasidim Lost A Vote — Which Might Save Their Children From A Life Of Poverty
In a last-minute backroom deal in April of 2018, a New York State Senator managed to dramatically reduce the ability of the government to enforce educational standards at Jewish day schools. Senator Simcha Felder, an Orthodox Jew who ran as a Democrat but caucuses with the Republicans, represents large swaths of the Hasidic community in…
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Life Among Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox, ‘Civics’ Takes On A Very Different Meaning
“We don’t discuss politics, gossip or slander,” declared the billboard, located on a busy thoroughfare in the ultra-orthodox suburb of Ramat Beit Shemesh. “We should distance ourselves from everything having to do with the elections as if from fire,” one cartoon boy on the billboard was portrayed saying. “My father told me that he also…
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