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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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News In Hasidic Brooklyn, Kosher Grocery Stores Go to War With Orthodox Newspapers
There’s a war in Orthodox Brooklyn this week between the booming Orthodox media industry and the local kosher grocery stores that sell their papers. Grocery store owners in Boro Park are refusing to sell the publications of twenty Orthodox publishers that will not meet the grocers’ demands for deep cuts to newspaper wholesale prices. On…
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News Hasidic Leaders Who Backed Clinton Now Claim They Were With Trump All Along
Leaders of the Skver Hasidim have an unusual message to their devoted followers: We may have backed the losing ticket for president, but it was all part of our plan. “We gave our endorsement to Hillary on the website ThinkingYid.com. In the message, Spitzer appears to be speaking on behalf of spiritual leaders who want…
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Fast Forward Burned Haredi Jew Effigy Represented George Soros, Polish Defendant Says
WARSAW, Poland – The defendant on trial in Poland for burning an effigy of a haredi Orthodox Jew said it was supposed to represent Jewish philanthropist George Soros. Piotr Ryba testified Monday in a Wroclaw municipal court about the effigy burned in the central market of the city in November 2015 at the end of a…
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Community What the Death of My Mother Taught Me About Charedi Jews and Arab Israelis
The plane was rapidly approaching Tel Aviv airport. Leafing through the newspapers distributed earlier by the flight attendant, I couldn’t escape the headlines. They were filled with reports about the latest violence erupting between the charedim and “secular” Jews, the tensions with the Arab-Israeli population, the dissatisfied immigrants from the former USSR and Ethiopia, the…
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Fast Forward Haredi Newspaper Der Yid (Sort Of) Endorses Hillary Clinton
After three Jewish newspapers came out to endorse Donald Trump this week, Hillary Clinton got a pre-Shabbat declaration of support in the pages of Der Yid, a Brooklyn weekly that serves the Satmar Hasidic community. “Throughout the years that Secretary Clinton served as New York’s Senator, and then as Secretary of State, she was sympathetic…
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Fast Forward In a First, a Brooklyn Yeshiva Agrees to $2.1 Million Child Sex Abuse Settlement
An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior rabbi on the school’s faculty—the first known case of such a settlement by a Jewish day school. Yeshiva Torah Temimah, a prominent school on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway with…
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