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News What’s for Dinner at the Peace Negotiations?; The Devil of Williamsburg
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman, to discuss the ongoing Israel-Palestine peace negotiations and what the negotiators are eating for dinner. Then, former Forward staffer Allison Yarrow calls in to discuss her new ebook on the trial of Satmar sexual abuser, Nechemya Weberman and…
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Fast Forward Dutch Orthodox School Still Roiled by Abuse
(JTA) — More than a year after his alleged molestation by a male teacher, 6-year-old Ehud (not his real name) still won’t tell everything he knows about the sex scandal rocking Amsterdam’s Cheider, the Dutch capital’s only Orthodox Jewish school. Ehud says the teacher, identified by Dutch media only as 25-year-old Ephraim S., used to…
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Fast Forward Rival Women’s Groups Feud Over Prayer at Western Wall
On the morning of July 8, at the beginning of the Hebrew month of Av, the Western Wall plaza was a cacophonous mess. Women of the Wall, the activist group that holds women’s prayer services each month at the site known as the Kotel, loudly sang festive prayers at a spot far from the wall…
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Life ‘Frumpification’ of Orthodox Fashion
Everything comes easier for me when I have a bit of intellectual stimulation, and exercise is no exception. Recently, as I pushed through another grueling post-baby workout, my trainer, sensing that I was in desperate need of distraction, told me something interesting. An Orthodox Jewish woman had recently complained to her that some of the…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes Releases Names of 46 Orthodox Abusers
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes released the names of 46 child sex offenders from the New York borough’s Orthodox community. Hynes, who has been investigating sex crimes in the community for four years, released the names in a policy shift, according to the New York Post. Previously, Hynes had felt that releasing the names could…
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Fast Forward New York Measles Outbreak Halted Among Orthodox
A measles outbreak among New York’s Orthodox Jewish community has been curtailed, according to officials for the city’s department of health. From March to June, 58 cases of measles were reported in Williamsburg and Boro Park in Brooklyn, two heavily populated Orthodox Jewish communities, among children and adults who were not vaccinated or had denied…
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Life Lost in Jewish No-Man’s Land
When my friend recently circled her husband-to-be, blindfolded by an opaque laced cloth, her mother and mother-in-law each holding a candle in one hand with her dress train in the other, I had a moment like many I’ve had throughout my life: I wished I were more religious. My near envy had nothing to do…
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Life Too Many Orthodox Bachelorettes?
There are many crises happening around the world right now — coups and civil wars, Spitzers and Weiners and what-have-you. But the real serious crisis involves the old Jewish maids crying their eyes dry because no nice Jewish boys will marry them. The yeshivish Orthodox world has been embroiled in the so-called “shidduch crisis” for…
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