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News Inspired By Trump Era, Orthodox Rabbis Launch New Political Group
This advocacy group believes same-sex couples should not be allowed to adopt. It says Vice President Mike Pence is a role model because he won’t dine alone with a woman other than his wife. It applauds legislation outlawing abortion after 20 weeks gestation, on the grounds that the “unborn child” can feel “fetal pain.” It’s…
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Life I’m Orthodox, Broke And Proud
My wife and I are broke. Don’t worry, it’s always been that way. Ever since we decided to sell all our stuff and move to Israel, and then sell all our stuff there and move back, we’ve been broke. Not like, broke broke — please don’t misunderstand. We’re not hungry or homeless. We’re middle-class broke….
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Community Who Gets To Judge The Converts?
The law “ואהבתם את הגר,” and you shall love the convert, is mentioned over 36 times in the Torah. The prolific rabbi Moshe Feinstein wrote that “As a matter of normative practice, one should know that the mitzvah (commandment) to love the convert obligates us to bring them closer and to be lenient on all…
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Fast Forward Get Ready, Israel: The Mooch Is Coming
Anthony Scaramucci, the colorful businessman who lasted 10 days as White House communications director before being fired, will soon head to Israel on an investment mission. Scaramucci, who came to politics from the world of Wall Street finance, will be a guest of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce. The “executive VIP” trip to Israel…
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Fast Forward Is Ivanka Trump Getting Into Kabbalah With Red Thread Bracelet?
Ivanka Trump has been spotted several times since the early summer sporting a thin red thread tied around her wrist. Set against the backdrop of her meticulously styled “looks,” complete with Ivanka Trump-brand jewelry, dresses and shoes, the red threat might seem out of place — even off-brand. But the bracelet has special significance to…
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Community Why I Chose To Attend Public High School Even Though I’m Ultra-Orthodox
Noticing the black velvet yarmulke atop my dark brown hair, many of the students at my new school assumed that I was Muslim. In the beginning of my freshman year, I enrolled in Baltimore City College High School (“City”) in Baltimore, Maryland after attending ultra-Orthodox schools or “yeshivas” in Maryland for the prior 14 years….
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Fast Forward Warring Brooklyn Candidates Agree On One Thing: No Yeshiva Reform
Amid a blistering City Council campaign in the Orthodox-dominated neighborhood of Boro Park, two warring candidates have found a rare point of agreement: Both dislike the advocates seeking to improve secular education at Hasidic Yeshivas. “I don’t want any outside group, I’m not going to give them airtime by mentioning their name, but they are…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Student Almost Misses His Wedding Over British Immigration Snafu
(JTA) — British immigration officers detained for three days a haredi Orthodox citizen of Israel and the United States who arrived in the United Kingdom to marry a citizen of that country. Yosef Goldenberg of Los Angeles, who is studying in Israel, arrived Thursday at London’s Heathrow Airport carrying his American passport en route to his wedding Monday in…
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