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News Israel Blames Ultra-Orthodox Parents for Failings of Schools
The Israeli government says that Haredi parents and schools — rather than the government itself — are to blame for denying secular education to ultra-Orthodox youth in Israel. That was the government’s response to a lawsuit filed by 53 ex-Orthodox individuals against the Ministry of Education for failing to teach them basic secular subjects like…
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News Ultra-Orthodox Take to Facebook To Fight Sex Abuse — and Taboo Against Reporting It
The scene captured by the surveillance camera shows an ultra-Orthodox man trying to force himself on a young boy in the narrow entrance of an apartment building. It happened last month, on Purim, in the Israeli town of Bnei Brak. Within a few hours, the footage was posted on Facebook. Almost immediately, the assailant was…
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Opinion Is Ultra-Orthodox Support for Donald Trump a Contradiction?
Ultra-Orthodox Jews who support Donald Trump are caught in a contradiction between the values of their communities and the behavior of their chosen candidate. They purport to value modesty, yet they back a man who jokes about penis size during a Republican debate. They claim to value upright speech, but they prefer the candidate who…
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Breaking News Israeli Army Drafts Ultra-Orthodox Jew After Racy Posts On Facebook
JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces will draft a man who claimed an exemption from military service because he is haredi Orthodox after his ex-girlfriend posted a photo on Facebook showing them kissing. The post also described a sexual relationship between the two of them, Israel’s Channel 10 reported Sunday. The army sent a draft…
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Opinion A Sephardic Sage Would Never Make a Woman Switch Seats
A story is told of an incident on a bus in Jerusalem. A pretty young lady got on the bus and sat down in a vacant seat next to a Haredi rabbi. The rabbi arose in a huff and walked quickly away from the woman. At the next stop, a Sephardic rabbi got on the…
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Breaking News Ultra-Orthodox Lawmaker Compares Reform Jews to Mentally Ill
A haredi Orthodox lawmaker in Israel reportedly compared the Reform movement to a mentally ill person. Israel Eichler of the United Torah Judaism party made his remarks Tuesday in the lead-up to a Knesset debate the next day on the Supreme Court’s decision that non-Orthodox converts can immerse in a public mikvah, according to the…
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Breaking News Sephardic Leader Calls Western Wall Deal ‘Horrible’ — Compares Reform Jews to Dogs
JERUSALEM — A former head of the Shas Sephardic Orthodox party slammed the Israeli Cabinet’s approval to expand the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, joining several politicians who have ridiculed the deal and liberal movements of Judaism. “This is a horrible disaster and an attack on the Holy of Holies,” Eli Yishai said in…
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News Rescuer in George Washington Bridge Plunge Was 2009 ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ Hero
Rescuers saved a woman who leapt from New York’s famed George Washington Bridge — and for one of them it wasn’t the first time playing hero on the Hudson. Ironically, Heshy Gottdiener, Scott Koen and others were on the Hudson River already helping a family from his home in upstate New York look for a…
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