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News Analysis: Investigations Strain De Blasio’s Carefully Cultivated Ties to Orthodox
Bill de Blasio’s persistent courting of New York City’s Orthodox community has reached a crossroads two years into his mayoral administration. The mayor has lavished favors on the Orthodox, restoring key political goodies that his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, eliminated, and creating major new programs with the Orthodox in mind. Yet for all those gestures, it’s…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Drive 4.4% Jump in New York Jewish School Enrollment
JTA — Enrollment in New York State’s Jewish day schools and yeshivas increased by 4.4 percent last year. compiled by the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council from statistics provided by the New York State Education Department, more than 143,000 students were enrolled in 405 K-12 Jewish schools in the state during the 2014-15 academic year….
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News Police Probe Video of Ultra-Orthodox Principal Kissing Boy in Kiryas Joel School: Report
Police are looking into a video circulating widely among Orthodox social media users that shows a teacher at an Orthodox school kissing a young male student, the Journal News reported. The video, which emerged from Orthodox groups on the social networking service WhatsApp on Sunday before being posted by various advocates on Facebook, appears to…
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Life Q&A: Dina Pinner of KayamaMoms Talks Motherhood for Single Orthodox Women
“I’m 41, religious and single. I’m not prepared to give up on motherhood and I’m also not prepared to give up on my halakhic devotion. If I can’t have a partner, at least I should have a child.” With this impassioned plea, Aviva Harbater opened up the 2011 inaugural conference of KayamaMoms, a Jerusalem-based organization…
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News Michael Karfunkel, the Orthodox Billionaire No One Heard Of, Dies at 72
Michael Karfunkel, an eye-poppingly rich Orthodox Brooklyn billionaire who was virtually unknown outside of the religious Jewish community, has died. He was 72. Together with his brother George Karfunkel, who survived the 1976 raid on Entebbe, Michael and his family rank among the top hundred wealthiest families in the United States, according to Forbes. Their…
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Fast Forward Brazilian ‘Fiddler’ Director Says Orthodox Jews Spit on Christians
An acclaimed Brazilian theater director who recently put on a successful production of “Fiddler on the Roof” condemned some Orthodox Jews whom he said routinely spit on Christians. Claudio Botelho levelled the accusation, which some Jews said was anti-Semitic, on Facebook last week, Alef News, a Brazilian Jewish news portal, reported. “Spitting on someone is…
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Culture How Great Adventure Goes All-In Orthodox for Passover
(JTA) — Pinchas Cohen spent most of Monday wandering around Six Flags Great Adventure under a blazing sun, wearing a knee-length black coat and carrying a big box of shmura matzah under his arm. An imposing, Russian-born Chabad-Lubavitch Hasid who now lives in Brooklyn, Cohen came to this amusement park in New Jersey with his…
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News Successors to Anti-Orthodox ‘Failed Messiah’ Site Humbly Take Up Muckraker’s Mantle
If the mystery buyers of the muckraking anti-Orthodox website Failed Messiah aimed to silence the online airing of Orthodox dirty laundry by shutting down the site, their plan has backfired. The controversial, aggressive, sometimes unfair and utterly indefatigable writer behind Failed Messiah, Shmarya Rosenberg, announced in February that he had sold the site to an…
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