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Culture How This Film About Modern Orthodox Women Turned Into A Surprise Hit
(JTA) — It’s safe to call the Israeli film “The Women’s Balcony” the opposite of a Hollywood blockbuster. The movie, directed by Emil Ben-Shimon, is a sensitive, slice-of-life story that focuses on the rift caused in a modern Orthodox community in Jerusalem when a Hasidic rabbi offers to fill in for the congregation’s leader, who…
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Fast Forward Textbooks In Israeli Haredi Schools Demonize Reform Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Textbooks used in Haredi Orthodox schools in Israel promote the community’s insularity, according to a study by an education watchdog. The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, or IMPACT-se, studied 93 textbooks used in grades 1 through 12. The curricula of the Haredi schools oppose modernity, and acceptance…
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Fast Forward Menstruation App Comes Under Fire For ‘Jeopardizing Purity Of Jewish Nation’
A new debate is playing out in New York City’s Orthodox community over the halachic status of an online app designed for women who wish to better observe the religious prohibition on intimacy during menstruation. The application, Tahor, allows for women to anonymously send photos of their bedikah cloths, used to check the vagina for…
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Opinion Friendly Fire: Why Do Some Fellow Jews Scorn The Ultra-Orthodox?
Among the responses to my critique of CNN’s Reza Aslan’s portrayal of Israeli haredim as a threat to the country, two stand out. One was public, civil and reasoned; the other private and, well, otherwise. The latter, from E. S. (he signed his full name), a self-described Conservative-turned-Reform Jew, characterized haredim as “an abominable blight…
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Opinion How ‘Moderate’ Ultra-Orthodox Aid And Abet Extremism In Israel
In his recent article, “How CNN’s ‘Believer’ Smears Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox As Intolerant ‘Black Peril’” published in the Forward, Rabbi Avi Shafran takes issue with CNN religion reporter Reza Aslan’s portrayal of Haredi Jews in Israel as “bent on creating an oppressive theocracy.” Shafran, who believes Aslan’s piece maligned the Haredi, used his op-ed to depict…
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Fast Forward Israeli Police Arrest Dozens At Ultra-Orthodox Newspaper
Israeli police arrested 28 people on Tuesday in connection with an alleged extortion plot to force major companies to advertise in an ultra-Orthodox Israeli newspaper, according to a report in Ynet. The paper, called Hapeles, is published by the followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, a Jerusalem-based ultra-Orthodox rabbi who has feuded in recent years with…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Threaten To Shut Israel Airport With Anti-Draft Protest Over Passover
An ultra-Orthodox group is threatening to disrupt operations at Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport during the busy Passover holiday week with protests against the drafting of yeshiva students into the army. A body calling itself “the committee for the rescue of the world of Torah” took out ads in ultra-Orthodox media outlets, saying that the planned…
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Fast Forward Thousands Of Ultra-Orthodox Protest Israeli Military Draft
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of haredi Orthodox men demonstrated against Israel’s military draft in the streets of a Jerusalem neighborhood. The protesters filled the streets of Jerusalem’s Geulah neighborhood, located near the central bus station, on Tuesday evening. The Associated Press put the crowd total at about 10,000. Though the protest was unauthorized, police chose…
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