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Fast Forward Kippah-Wearing Orthodox Jew Wins Obstacle Course TV Show
Michael Neuman’s yarmulk stayed perfectly in place as he went on to win his episode of the CBS show “Million Dollar Mile.” Neuman outran pro athlete Veejay Jones for more than a half a mile and through three obstacles, winning $25,000, the Jewish Journal reported. He proudly wore his yarmulke, a traditional Jewish head covering….
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Fast Forward Dogs Are Bad And Owners Are ‘Accursed,’ Israeli Orthodox Rabbis Rule
(JTA) — More than a dozen rabbis from the city of Elad near Tel Aviv issued an edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed. The edict, dated to June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad, a city of about 46,000 residents where…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Obstacle Course Champion Sports Kippah On Lebron James’ New TV Show
An Orthodox Jew wore a yarmulke as he ran through an obstacle course on CBS’s new competition series on a quest to win $1 million. Michael Neuman recently competed on Million Dollar Mile, produced by Lebron James and hosted by Tim Tebow, and his episode will air July 13 at 8 p.m. The 25-year-old told…
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Opinion This Orthodox Family And Their Yeshiva Are In A Legal Battle Over Vaccines
Last week, a federal court in Brooklyn became the latest battleground in the New York vaccine wars, further testing whether parents can exempt themselves from their legal obligation to vaccinate their children. The stakes keep getting higher. The CDC has already confirmed 981 cases of the measles in 2019 — more than any year in…
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Opinion Yeshivas Aren’t Teaching Secular Studies. It’s A Shonda For The Jews And Democracy.
Over generations, no matter their religious practice, Jews have shared a commitment to educating their children. In New York, the government has set the standards for that education and taken the legal responsibility to ensure that every child in every school, whether public, private or religious, receives an education that meets those standards. And yet,…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jews Protest Women-Only Pond Allowing Trans Swimmers
(JTA) — A women’s-only pond in North London will now be open to transgender swimmers, which will prevent Orthodox Jews from using the pond. A group of haredi Orthodox women are planning to fight the decision, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported. Under Jewish law, women cannot be dressed immodestly in front of men. Trans women…
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Fast Forward Christian Couple Posed As Orthodox Jews To Convert Neighbors
Updated 4:00 p.m. A couple that had moved to a heavily-Jewish neighborhood in Chicago were actually Christian missionaries who had been trying to pass as Jewish in order to promote their religion, the Jewish news website COLlive reported. The proselytizers, who went by David and Rivkah Costello, were exposed by a visitor from Brooklyn, New…
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Fast Forward Anti-Vaccine Rally Draws Hundreds Of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews attended a “vaccine symposium” in New York, where leaders of the anti-vaccination movement shared false information on the measles outbreak among the Jewish community, The New York Times reported. Organized by a Jewish group in Rockland County, northwest of New York City, the event called on doctors, rabbis and lobbyists to…
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