Haredi
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Forverts in English The filmmaker who challenged his Haredi community’s prejudices
Menachem Daum believed that reaching out to Poles and other non-Jews was part of his holy work in creating a better world
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Opinion Some Israeli Haredim are joining the IDF. Can secular Jews get along with them?
The current war can help secular Jews understand that the Haredim are not the threat they’re often made out to be
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News How the Israel-Hamas war exposed a rift in Haredi Orthodox Judaism
Some Haredi leaders disparaged the DC rally for Israel. The backlash has been fierce
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News ‘Awakening of unity’: Hamas attack, war spark outpouring of support for Israel in haredi communities
“The outrage and sheer brutality of the October 7th attacks has united the Jewish community in common cause in a way I personally have never seen before,” said one community leader
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News Are Haredi Jews in the IDF the new normal?
‘Sitting at home is the worst thing you can do in these times,’ said Ari Goldberg, a Haredi reservist who joined the IDF last month
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Culture What is Neturei Karta, the Orthodox group at all the pro-Palestinian protests?
The fringe Haredi sect is staunchly anti-Zionist, but far from beloved by other Jews
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Opinion Our Jewish community has become divided. Hamas’ attack reminds us that we must stand together
It's up to Jews from all camps to self-reflect, and to focus more on what holds us together than our differences
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Fast Forward He racked up millions of likes for being a proud gay Haredi. Then he was outed as a fake.
‘I'm extremely upset that he is falsely portraying an experience without the nuance of living it,’ one person commented
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News A ‘quite religious’ anti-Zionist: Meet the Jewish Columbia student who wrangled the college newspaper’s opinion page
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