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Fast Forward Faigy Mayer Slammed Hasidic Lifestyle in Essay — Week Before Suicide
Faigy Mayer, an ex-Hasid who leapt to her death, had recently shared with a friend “the first draft of an opinion article” outlining her problems with Hasidic Judaism. Mayer’s friend Chaim Levin shared the 1,500-word draft with the media on Tuesday, one day after Mayer, 30, jumped from a rooftop bar in Manhattan. Mayer opened…
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Life Is Orthodox World Really To Blame for Faigy Mayer’s Suicide?
In bright pink paint, the words “Life is Beautiful” are splashed in graffiti on a wall in New York’s High Line, next to a young 30-year-old woman named Faigy Mayer brandishing a paint roller with a mischievous grin. The cover photo which illustrated countless tabloid news articles on Mayer’s death Tuesday, topped a Facebook timeline…
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News Woman Who Left Hasidic Community Jumps to Death From Rooftop Bar
A 30-year-old tech entrepreneur who left her Hasidic community jumped to her death from a 20th-floor rooftop bar in Manhattan’s trendy Flatiron District. READ: Why the Whole Orthodox World Is Complicit in Faigy Mayer’s Death Faigy Mayer, 30, plunged off the roof of 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar on West 27th Street Monday night in an…
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News Did Hasidic Neighbor Start Sex Abuse Reign of Terror on September 11?
A man testified that he suffered years of child sexual abuse after visiting a respected member of his upstate New York Hasidic community for comfort on the day of the September 11 terror attacks. Laiby Stern told a court that he was sexually molested for five years from 2001 until his bar mitzvah by Moshe…
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Fast Forward Did Quebec Bungle Abuse Probe Into Hasidic Fringe Sect?
Child protection officials in Quebec mishandled reports of child abuse within the fringe Jewish sect Lev Tahor, a provincial report said. In November 2013, about 250 Lev Tahor members fled the town of Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, north of Montreal, to avoid a hearing in youth court. The group was facing allegations of child abuse and neglect from…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Discrimination Suit Against Bloomingburg Clears Legal Hurdle
A federal judge ordered two New York municipalities in the Catskills foothills to face a lawsuit accusing them of discriminating against Hasidic Jews by trying to stop them from moving in. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said Bloomingburg, a village in Sullivan County with about 400 residents, must face claims by the developer of a…
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Fast Forward Son of Hasidic Grand Rebbe Dies After Surgery
The eldest son of the Vizhnitz Hasidic sect’s grand rabbi died unexpectedly at age 67. Rabbi Pinchas Shulem Hager, whose father Rabbi Mordechai Hager is international grand rabbi of the Vizhnitz Hasidic sect, died Thursday morning following back surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Hager, known for officiating at many Vizhnitz weddings, served as…
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Opinion Why Jewish Fundamentalism Is More Brazen Than Ever — and Not Just on the Plane
There’s a Hasidic man arguing with the gate agent at the Phoenix airport. He’s claiming that he can’t be seated next to a woman because of his religion – even though Hasidic men have sat next to women on airplanes and buses and in shared taxis for decades, until they gained enough political power in…
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