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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Battle Police Over Planned Cuts
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel blocked highways and clashed with police on Thursday in protest at a government decision to cut funds to seminary students who avoid military service. Police arrested about three dozen demonstrators at a number of hot spots, including eight who threw stones at officers, and used water cannon to disperse…
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Fast Forward Israel Cuts Stipends to Yeshiva Students
Israel’s Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it was cutting funds to seminary students exempt from compulsory military service, in the latest battle between the Jewish state’s secular majority and an ultra-Orthodox minority. Seminary students, many of whom rely on state stipends, have for decades been excused from army service under blanket exemptions that have long…
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Life Leah Vincent’s Journey
Leah Vincent’s new memoir, “Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood,” has a happy ending. But the rest of the book has a different tone. Born Leah Kaplan, Vincent grew up in Pittsburgh, the daughter of a prominent yeshivish (black hat) rabbi. She was one of 11 children in a household she…
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Israel News Orthodox Growth Tests Multiculturalism in Flashpoint Beit Shemesh
Beit Shemesh: A pessimist could call this city a vision of Israel’s future. The ultra-Orthodox represent, by far, the fastest-growing demographic in the Jewish state, and government statisticians expect their numbers to increase by anywhere up to 700% in the next half-century. Nobody knows what the full consequences will be if there is such rapid…
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Culture Haim Hears a Who as Dr. Seuss Musical Comes to Israel
(Haaretz) — Almost no work of children’s literature can compare with the books of Dr. Seuss. Their words and illustrations carry abundant possibilities, as well as an invitation to other creative artists to take inspiration from them and run with it. Anyone who has read Dr. Seuss’s works knows about the places you’ll go when…
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Opinion What York University Can Learn From Israel
Aerial photo of York University, Toronto, in 2010. / City of Toronto The ongoing dilemma of accommodating religious beliefs in a liberal and multicultural society is again glaringly apparent. News reports reveal that at York University, a large, publicly-funded post-secondary institution in Toronto, a student in a sociology course requested that he be exempt from…
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Fast Forward Bill De Blasio Vows To Catch Menachem Stark’s Killer
New York City’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio, said finding the killer of haredi Orthodox Brooklyn landlord Menachem Stark is a priority and condemned the New York Post’s coverage of the incident. De Blasio, who has been roundly criticized for his silence in the case, ripped the newspaper for its coverage on the front page…
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News Ultra-Orthodox Women Act on Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Gospel
Sheryl Sandberg has come to ultra-Orthodox Monsey, N.Y. — or at least her gospel has. The walls of the Orthodox school assembly hall in which her message is delivered are bare white, but for three posters with Hebrew writing, and six larger-than-life paper teddy bears. But the roughly 100 women who fill the hall on…
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