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Fast Forward WATCH: The Orthodox Are Wearing Popcorn Hats In Israel
An Orthodox streimel hat made of popcorn seems to have popped up (apologies) as one of the most popular (sorry) costumes in Haredi Israel this Purim. A day after Israeli journalist Sam Sokol published a photo of an Orthodox man in a study hall wearing the classic wheel shaped hat but filled with popcorn, he…
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Fast Forward This Hasidic Purim Costume Hat Doubles As A Snack
An ultra-Orthodox Purim reveller has what might be our favorite costume this year for its sheer snackability. It’s a popcorn streimel. The streimel is a wheel-shaped hat typically worn by married ultra-Orthodox men. The hat is usually covered in marten or fox fur, but this guy filled his with popcorn. Israel Broadcasting Authority journalist Sam…
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Israel News Q&A: Reza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ Goes Inside Ultra-Orthodox World
In the last episode of his new CNN series, “Believer,” Reza Aslan goes dancing with the Na Nachs, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group known for its impromptu techno street parties. Aslan, a scholar of religion and an Iranian-born American Muslim, finds a lot to admire in this marginal Jewish sect that seem to accept him as…
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Fast Forward Secular Jerusalem Plots To ‘Choke Off’ Orthodox With Friday Night Flicks — And No Religious Pre-School
The ultra-Orthodox need to be “choke[d]” so they don’t take over traditionally secular Jerusalem neighborhoods, said the head of a Jerusalem neighborhood group. Yehiel Levi, the head of the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood administration said Kiryat Hayovel, a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, will not include ultra-Orthodox kindergartens in public building projects as a way to put…
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Fast Forward Ikea Aims To Reach Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox With A Female-Free Catalog
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has come under fire in Israel after publishing a catalog without women. Hoping to appeal to the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, the catalog released this month shows men and boys in domestic settings — clad in yarmulke and with side curls. They sit at a Sabbath table, in a study and a…
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Community Soon by Me? No Thanks.
It happened slowly. First I was cutting my black hair into short punk-esque styles and rocking out at secular concerts. Then I was wearing more revealing clothing when costumes were the theme of the day. Every so often I would post short clips of me belting songs at karaoke or drinking with friends. It felt…
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Fast Forward British High Court Judge Denies Transgender Father, Ex-Haredi, Access to Her Children
(JTA) — The request of a transgender father of five – who left the haredi Orthodox community in Manchester, England, and now lives as a woman – to see her children has been denied by an English high court. “I have reached the unwelcome conclusion that the likelihood of the children and their mother being marginalized or…
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News Kosher Grocers in Brooklyn End Their Newspaper Ban
The war between Brooklyn’s kosher grocery stores and the Orthodox Jewish press is over, for now. After a tense day of conflict Wednesday between the grocery stores in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn and 20 publishers of Orthodox magazines and newspapers, the two sides have agreed to a de-escalation, the Forward has learned. More…
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