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The Schmooze Vogue Hails Orthodox Fashion as Fall’s ‘Sexiest Trend’
That’s not any old behind-doors frock! It’s now high fashion. The traditional sexy slip dress for Orthodox women is getting a modern, yet still modest, upgrade that’s bringing it out to the streets, and to the top design house runways. It is almost 2016, after all. Vogue that Rag & Bone have given the slip…
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Opinion Orthodox Women Should Thank Feminists Who Came Before — But They Won’t
I’ll begin by saying this. I’m really excited at the idea that Modern Orthodox women leaders, some of them friends of mine, are getting support pouring in from all corners of the Jewish world. Well, maybe not all, but many. This includes the CCAR, the umbrella organization for Reform rabbis. It is truly inspiring. So…
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Fast Forward Hubby Confesses To 2009 Bathtub Killing of Estranged Wife
The man charged with murdering his estranged Jewish wife in Manhattan in 2009 allegedly confessed the crime to his girlfriend. Information provided by the girlfriend of Roderick Covlin, 42, who was arraigned Monday, provided authorities with the evidence necessary to indict him in the death of Shele Danishefsky Covlin, according to the New York Post….
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News Avi Weiss Defends ‘Open Orthodoxy’ as Agudah Rabbis Declare War
A group of leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis issued a proclamation November 2 asserting that the so-called Open Orthodox movement is not legitimately Orthodox and that rabbis ordained in its seminaries are not rabbis. The proclamation by the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America, the ultra-Orthodox rabbis who guide the Agudath Israel of America, is the latest salvo…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbis Group Chooses Confrontation in Feud Over Female Clergy
(JTA) — When America’s main modern Orthodox rabbinical association voted last week to ban the hiring of clergywomen by its members, the question wasn’t whether to endorse women rabbis. It was whether to widen the group’s well-established repudiation of female clergy or keep quiet and focus on finding common ground with modern Orthodox Judaism’s progressive…
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The Schmooze Orthodox Hungarian Boy Steals Show on Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Belief’
(JTA) — Orthodox Jewish boys from Hungary are not typically a hot topic on Twitter. But after the Sunday night premiere of Oprah Winfrey’s “Belief,” a seven-part documentary series exploring various faiths around the world, the Internet is enamored with Mendel Hurwitz, one of the show’s first subjects. Hurwitz, now 15, hails from Budapest, where…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Man Beaten on Brooklyn Street
New York City police are investigating an attack on a Jewish man in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. On Oct. 16, an Orthodox man was assaulted in front of a Jewish school in an incident being investigated as a possible bias attack. Moshe Yehuda Feldman, 35, was hit in the back of the head in…
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Will Be Majority of British Community in 15 Years
Haredi Orthodox Jews will soon account for half of the British Jewish population, according to a study of the United Kingdom’s Jewish community. Accelerating birth rates among the strictly observant religious Jewish communities mean they are expected “to constitute a majority of the British Jewish population before the 21st century is over,” a report from…
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