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Sports The college is Christian. Its point guard wears a yarmulke.
Playing basketball in an Orthodox Jewish desert hasn’t always been easy for Ze’ev Remer. That was kind of the idea.
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Culture This Orthodox New Yorker feeds more cats than you
I followed a Jewish cat rescuer on his morning rounds to see what it's like caring for feral felines in a city that doesn't want to deal with them
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Fast Forward SCOTUS declines to take Yeshiva University LGBTQ case — for now
Roberts and Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberal justices in essentially saying, ‘try again later’
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University LGBTQ group responds to school’s emergency SCOTUS petition
The school wants to turn a case it lost in June into a First Amendment showdown
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Fast Forward Yeshiva University petitions SCOTUS to block LGBTQ student club
An appeals court judge rejected the school's denial of stay earlier this month
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Opinion What will it take for Orthodox Judaism to hold sexual abusers accountable?
As other denominations attempt to address institutional sexual misconduct, Orthodox leadership remains notably absent
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Sports ‘March Madness for Jews’: Why the Sarachek tournament is such a big Orthodox deal
For all the ways the sport unifies the Orthodox world, there is nothing like basketball to draw out its differences.
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News Los Angeles Orthodox leaders pump brakes on synagogue reopening
Orthodox synagogues in Los Angeles present a united front against spread of COVID-19
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