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Fast Forward Extremist Lev Tahor Ultra-Orthodox Sect Wins Fight To Keep Children Near
The haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor has successfully appealed a ruling to place 14 children in foster care in Quebec. The decision, delivered April 15 by an Ontario court, gives Lev Tahor, whose memebers fled Quebec for Ontario, a rare legal victory. It allows the 14 children named in a Quebec removal order to remain…
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Life Real Heroines of Pesach Prep
Martyna Starosta // A woman hired to clean a Hasidic home before Pesach “Thank God I don’t need to get a goyte this year,” I shout from the living room, as I’m adding, for the umpteenth time, another grocery item to the shared google doc titled “Orlando Grocery List” — Orlando is where my family…
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News Telling Story of Holocaust’s Horrors Through Ultra-Orthodox Eyes
Is it permissible to show images of Jewish women with their heads shaved but without a head covering as they walk towards Nazi gas chambers? This is the type of question faced by organizers of the first Holocaust museum to be aimed specifically at Orthodox Jews. Elly Kleinman, the Orthodox businessman behind the project, sought…
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Fast Forward 7 Lev Tahor Members Arrested by Child Welfare
Canadian border security officials raided the compound of the fringe haredi Orthodox sect Lev Tahor and arrested seven members. According to the local children’s aid society in Chatham, Ontario, about one dozen Canada Border Services Agency officials entered the compound on Wednesday and arrested Lev Tahor members believed to be in violation of immigration laws….
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News Challenger Wins Bloomingburg Vote as Orthodox Newcomers Ruled Ineligible
Sullivan County’s Board of Elections has backed claims that more than 100 residents of the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg — including Orthodox developer Shalom Lamm and his family — were not legally eligible to vote in last month’s contentious local elections. Lamm announced Wednesday that he would end his fight over the election…
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Books Deborah Feldman Isn’t Telling You the Whole Story
● Exodus By Deborah Feldman Blue Rider Press, $26.95, 288 pages While Jews around the world are preparing to retell the story of their ancestral exodus from Egypt, another story of an exodus is making its way onto bookshelves. Deborah Feldman, the 27-year-old author of the 2012 best-selling memoir “Unorthodox,” is releasing her second memoir,…
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News A Visit To Germany Reawakens Fears of an Ultra-Orthodox Childhood
On my first trip to Germany, as I traveled to the town where a friend of mine lives, everything reminded me of the Holocaust. The pink-cheeked travelers in my train car seemed to morph into Nazis. T-shirts shimmered into gray-green uniforms. Cell phones looked like guns. As we rolled through emerald fields, I found myself…
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Life My Most Important Friendships
Thinkstock Female friendships are difficult to understand. The bonds that women forge — the really close friendships — are almost invincible. Although I hesitate at stereotyping female friendships, I nevertheless believe some of the stereotypes to be true. Maybe it’s because I have recently realized that my daughter is treating her friendships differently than my…
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