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Fast Forward 3 Rabbis Convicted in Orthodox Divorce Extortion Scheme
(Reuters) — Three Orthodox Jewish rabbis were convicted in New Jersey on Tuesday of conspiracy to commit kidnapping in a scheme to force men to grant divorces to their unhappy wives under Jewish law. Two of the rabbis were convicted as well of attempted kidnapping in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, according to the…
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News How We Crunched the Numbers on Kidney Donation
Here’s how we arrived at our estimate that . Last year, the United Network for Organ Sharing recorded 180 people who donated their kidney without specifying a recipient. UNOS does not include Renewal donors in this pool. Instead, UNOS included Renewal’s donors among the 1,273 people who directed their kidney to an “unrelated” person. But…
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Opinion Men Refusing To Sit by Women? That’s the Symptom. Here’s the Sickness.
When I saw the front page of the New York Times last week with the headline a sense of dread perforated my stomach. The article was an examination of the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who, when faced with being seated next to a woman, demand that the woman be extracted and moved to another…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Modern Orthodox Scholar, Dies at 81
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a leader of the Israeli national-religious movement and a prominent Modern Orthodox scholar, has died. Lichtenstein, a head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva located in the Gush Etzion bloc of the West Bank, died Monday morning at the age of 81. The rabbi, who received a PhD in English literature from Harvard…
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News Can an Orthodox Charity Help Save Lives in This Man’s Church?
David Sarna’s problem began a little more than 20 years ago with an ear infection. While they were examining him, doctors discovered he had high blood pressure and a small amount of kidney damage. For Sarna, who was in his early 40s, it was the first inkling of kidney disease. Sarna did everything he could…
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News Hit-and-Run Driver Gets Life for Killing Orthodox Family
A New York City man was sentenced to a prison term of 25 years to life on Monday over a fatal 2013 hit-and-run car crash that killed a young Orthodox Jewish family, prosecutors said. Julio Acevedo, 46, was convicted over the collision that killed Raizy and Nachman Glauber, 21, and their premature infant, the Brooklyn…
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Fast Forward Will Haredi Jews Embrace Pre-Nups Protecting Women from Becoming Agunot?
Breaking up, as the classic song notes, is generally hard to do. But in the Orthodox community, divorce can be particularly trying, especially for women. That’s because intransigent husbands can hold up the process by refusing to give a get, or a religious writ of divorce. In some cases, husbands use the get as a…
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Culture How Shulem Deen Lost Everything and Found Himself
All Who Go Do Not Return By Shulem Deen Graywolf Press, 288 pages, $16 Family and God are the essences of a Hasid’s life. From cradle to death, one is taught to love, fear and obey God, and to cherish and respect family and all the customs, traditions and quirks that are the hallmarks of…
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