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Opinion Haredi Editorial Unifies Israel on Memorial Day
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis stand for the Yom Hazikaron siren / Vimeo Israeli unity made a big leap forward today, on the national memorial day for fallen soldiers. Normally, Yom Hazikaron, one of the most emotionally-charged days in the calendar, gives rise to anger from the general population towards the ultra-Orthodox community, which is considered disrespectful toward…
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News New York City Stonewalls Forward on Metzitzah B’peh Circumcision Regulations
It’s been more than one year since New York City announced a new regulation to protect infants from contracting herpes during metzitzah b’peh, a controversial circumcision rite that many ultra-Orthodox mohels employ. Since then, two babies in the city that were subjected to MBP, as the rite is known, have been infected with the herpes…
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Fast Forward Extremist Lev Tahor Ultra-Orthodox Sect Wins Fight To Keep Children Near
The haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor has successfully appealed a ruling to place 14 children in foster care in Quebec. The decision, delivered April 15 by an Ontario court, gives Lev Tahor, whose memebers fled Quebec for Ontario, a rare legal victory. It allows the 14 children named in a Quebec removal order to remain…
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Fast Forward Israeli Haredim Protest Against Arrest of Yeshiva Draft-Dodger
About 500 haredi Orthodox men demonstrated in Jerusalem against the arrest of a yeshiva student who ignored a call-up notice for army service. The protesters, who also took to the streets in the predominately haredi city of Bnei Brak, blocked intersections, set fire to trash bins, and threw rocks and bottles at police on Thursday…
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Opinion Does Takeover of Crimea Mean Messiah Is Near?
Getty Images Most of the Jewish and general world is fuming over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Crimea. But some ultra-Orthodox Jews are positively delighted by it. This week, Grand Rabbi Moshe Shternbuch, the vice president of Israel’s Rabbinical Court and a descendant of the revered rabbi known as the Vilna Gaon (aka “Genius…
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News His Hasidic Toy Story
Samuel Lipschitz, 27, grinned as a pint-sized red smart car pulled up next to the curb outside his toy store on Lee Avenue in Brooklyn. Lacquered onto the side of the car was a children’s cartoon character: a freckled, round-faced boy with curly brown peyes, or sidelocks, and a yarmulke. “What Walt Disney did to…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Wedding Grandpa Beaten After Brooklyn Reception — Was It ‘Knockout’?
A haredi Orthodox man from London visiting New York for his grandson’s wedding was attacked. The 65-year-old man had his face smashed into the sidewalk early Tuesday morning in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park as he left the wedding reception, the New York Daily News reported. His lip was split and a tooth was…
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Fast Forward Lev Tahor Children May Remain With Parents in Guatemala, Judge Rules
Six children from the haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor who fled Canada will be allowed to remain in Guatemala with their parents, but with conditions. Monday’s ruling by a Guatemalan family court judge allows the Lev Tahor members from two families to stay in the Central American country, but they must check in with the…
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