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Fast Forward Orthodox Hold Divided Service in Push To ‘Sabotage’ Western Wall Prayer Deal
In what is believed to be a first, Orthodox Jews temporarily took over the space at the Western Wall that has been designated for non-Orthodox prayer services. A — a physical divider separating men and women — was set up at the southern section of the Western Wall on Tuesday for a service led by Jerusalem Chief…
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Fast Forward 34 Orthodox British Boys Rescued From Rising Tide on School Trip
A school trip to Britain’s picturesque south coast nearly turned tragic when 34 Orthodox teenage boys from London and their two teachers were trapped by rising tides and had to be plucked to safety Monday night. The trapped teens were forced signal for help with the light from their cell phones after ignoring danger signs…
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Life Get Ready for Summer With Modest Swimwear — It’s Also Super-Sexy
“The only options we were finding were these long, flowery dresses that just weren’t our style or skin-tight surfing-style wetsuits,” Wolf says. The company specializes in casual, sporty mix-and-match tops and bottoms. The tops come in all sleeve lengths — from sleeveless to long sleeves — and the bottoms are pants, skirts, shorts or skorts…
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Israel News Orthodoxy and Right-Wing Extremism Go Hand-in-Hand in Israel — Pew Study Explains Why
TEL AVIV — Why are Israeli Orthodox Jews more attracted to politically extremist views than their non-Orthodox fellow citizens? The question is not a provocation. It’s one that grows out of a new analysis of data from the Pew Research Center’s study in March showing that nearly half of all Israeli Jews want Arabs expelled…
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Opinion Those Rapping Bais Yaakov Girls Are Not Weird — Or Even Surprising
Jewish media outlets were surprised and delighted by a recent viral video of two Bais Yaakov girls rapping about Dor Yesharim, a genetic testing organization. I was delighted, too. Surprised? Not at all. While there was nothing shocking to me about two Orthodox teenage girls rapping, the responses to the video have been both surprising…
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Opinion It’s Time Orthodox Jews Speak Out Against Shomrim Patrol
The Brooklyn Hasidim accused of beating a young, gay black man named Taj Patterson back in 2013 are reportedly about to get a plea deal so sweet, they won’t serve a single day in prison. Patterson, who was beaten so badly that he was left blind in one eye, and who had homophobic slurs hurled…
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News How an Orthodox High School Takes Spammers to Court — and Reaps Rewards
Sometime in the late morning of November 27, 2012, a fax machine rang at a high school for Orthodox girls in Rockland County, New York. The message that spooled out of the machine’s printer was an invitation to an information session about a London-based university. The Orthodox school’s response to the fax? A lawsuit, filed…
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Life Orthodox Boxer Yuri Foreman’s Secrets of Success
I stood in a boxing ring at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn’s Dumbo, opposite Yuri Foreman, the onetime World Boxing Association super welterweight world champion. My left leg was forward; my knees were bent in a “boxing stance.” “One, two, slip, right upper jab, left hook,” Foreman directed, and I began the sequence, having learned what…
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