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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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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Canada ‘Pure Heart’ Sect Ordered Back to Quebec
A judge has ordered members of an extremist haredi Orthodox sect to return to Quebec for a court hearing on allegations of child neglect. The members of Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, left their homes in Ste. Agathe in Quebec early last week out of fear that Canadian welfare authorities would take their children. The…
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Fast Forward Extremist Canadian Ultra-Orthodox Sect Heads to Ontario
Members of an extremist haredi Orthodox cult that fled their Quebec homes out of fear that Canadian welfare authorities would take their children have settled in southwestern Ontario. The Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, cult left their homes early last week, and were said to be planning to move to Iran. But Canadian media reported…
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News Extremist Haredi Cult Flees Quebec, Planning Move to Iran
Forty families belonging to an extremist haredi Orthodox cult fled their Quebec homes and are planning to go to Iran. Members of the group, called Lev Tahor, or Pure Heart, left their homes on Tuesday out of fear that Canadian welfare authorities would take their children, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The paper cited…
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Fast Forward Troubled Trial of Sam Kellner Is Delayed — Claimed His Son Was Abused
The troubled bribery and extortion trial of a Brooklyn man who says his son was a victim of child abuse has been delayed — again. Laughter could be heard in the Brooklyn Supreme Court courtroom, November 12, when prosecutor John Holmes said that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office was still not ready to try the…
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