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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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Fast Forward 2 Canadian Children Returned to Extremist Lev Tahor Haredi Sect
Two children seized by Canadian authorities from an extremist haredi Orthodox sect were returned to their parents with strict conditions. The parents, members of the Lev Tahor sect, agreed to scheduled and random visits from children’s aid workers and said they would not leave the Chatham-Kent region, in southwest Ontario, or use “physical discipline,” among…
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Fast Forward Two Children From Haredi Canadian Sect Taken Into Custody by Child Services
Child-protection authorities in Ontario have taken two children into protective custody from the reclusive Jewish sect Lev Tahor. A lawyer for the group told The Toronto Star on Monday that officials with the Chatham-Kent Children’s Services in southwest Ontario seized the two children from one family on Dec. 12. The circumstances surrounding the seizure are…
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Opinion A Blanket of Snow Changes Jerusalem — Even Just for Shabbat
Getty Images They say that the sun shines on the righteous. Maybe not, but you did have a better chance of weathering this weekend’s Middle East storm if you’re Haredi. At the height of the Alexa storm, which brought unusually cold temperatures and severe snow, some 60,000 Israel households were without power. However in some…
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Fast Forward Abused Haredi Girls Find Safe Haven in Boarding School Made for Them
Esther is a 22-year-old graduate of an unusual makeup course. It is designed for ultra-Orthodox girls and women who have been removed from their homes due to sexual or other violence. “The course gave me the strength to understand that I can do things well,” says Esther, who was initially opposed to taking any course,…
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Fast Forward Independent Rabbinical Court Addressing Agunot To Be Launched Next Year
A new independent rabbinical court to address the issue of agunot, so-called “chained women” whose husbands refuse to give them a religious writ of divorce, will be launched next year. The announcement of the court, or beit din, was made Sunday at the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance conference in New York. Rabbi Simcha Krauss of…
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Fast Forward Haredim Protest Jailing of Yeshiva Student Refusing IDF Draft
Hundreds of haredi Orthodox protesters took part in a second day of demonstrations against the jailing of a yeshiva student who refused to present himself at an IDF enlistment center. The yeshiva student was imprisoned on Sunday for two weeks. During Thursday’s demonstrations in Kikar HaShabbat in Jerusalem, protesters set trash bins alight and threw…
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Fast Forward Court Orders 14 Children Seized From Canada Ultra-Orthodox Sect
A court in Quebec has ordered 14 children from an extremist haredi Orthodox sect to be placed in foster care and receive psychological support. The children’s parents also were ordered to turn over their passports, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation reported. The parents, members of the Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, were not present in the…
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