This is the Forward’s coverage of Hasidic Judaism, a sub-group of Haredi Judaism that adheres to the historical traditions of Eastern European Jews, including communicating in Yiddish.
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Fast Forward New Video Shows Second Boy Fondled by Hasidic Principal
NEW YORK (JTA) – A second hidden video from inside the largest yeshiva in the Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel shows a principal holding a school-age boy between his legs while kissing him in what sex-abuse watchdogs are describing as another case of abuse. The video follows the release of another hidden-camera recording that seems…
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News WATCH: Does Secret 11-Minute Video Reveal Abuse of Boy by Hasidic School Principal?
(JTA) — The story is an all-too-familiar horror tale: An adult in a position of power – in this case a Hasidic school principal – is accused of sexually abusing a child in his care. But one thing makes this episode very different: The encounter was captured on a hidden camera and posted online this week…
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News Police Probe Video of Ultra-Orthodox Principal Kissing Boy in Kiryas Joel School: Report
Police are looking into a video circulating widely among Orthodox social media users that shows a teacher at an Orthodox school kissing a young male student, the Journal News reported. The video, which emerged from Orthodox groups on the social networking service WhatsApp on Sunday before being posted by various advocates on Facebook, appears to…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Hasidic Rabbi Fears Mistreatment by Israel — Cites Pinto Case
The attorney for Israeli Rabbi Eliezer Berland, a fugitive accused of serial sex crimes, closed his case at the rabbi’s bail hearing in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, mounting an impassioned plea that the rabbi be given bail, especially since it is Passover. Lawyer Themba Langa said the rabbi was a man of elevated…
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Fast Forward Hotel in Ukraine Pilgrimage Town Bars Hasidic Guests
A hotel in Uman is refusing to rent out rooms to Jews, a leader of Ukraine’s Jewish community said. Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, wrote Thursday on Facebook that an administrator at Uman City Plaza told him the policy was in place because the last time that Jews were allowed to…
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Fast Forward 2 Hasidic Girls Found Unhurt After Going Missing on Orlando Trip
Two 16-year-old girls from the Chabad-Lubavitch community who went missing during a Shabbat afternoon walk while on a class trip in Orlando, Florida, were found in a nearby area of densely wooded swampland. The girls, identified as Rivka Moshe and Brocha Katz, both students of Bais Chana High School in Miami, left a resort in…
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The Schmooze The New Yorker Goes to Brooklyn for ‘Hipster or Hasid’ Cover
This week’s New Yorker cover taps into the visual similarities between two very different types of Brooklyn dwellers: Hasidic Jews and hipsters. The striking image is named “Take the L Train,” referring to the Brooklyn-bound subway line, and features a hipster and a Hasid, back to back, sporting the same long black beard. The Orthodox…
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News Hasidic ‘Evidence Drive’ Seeks to Shame DOE
Got any report cards sent home with no grades assigned for secular subjects? Any textbooks, purchased with government dollars, in which teachers have slapped stickers over unapproved subjects? Hand ‘em over, says an advocacy group pushing to raise the quality of secular education in Hasidic schools. The group, Yaffed, is holding an “evidence drive,” asking…
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