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Fast Forward 10-Year-Old Orthodox Girl Killed, Pregnant Mom Hurt Crossing Brooklyn Street
A 10-year-old Brooklyn girl was killed and her mother, nine months pregnant, was injured when they were hit by a minivan while crossing the street in the Borough Park neighborhood. The haredi Orthodox woman, Sarah Friedman, was taken to the hospital, where she delivered a healthy baby girl — her fifth child — on Tuesday…
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News Jerusalem Orthodox Seminaries Refund Girls’ Tuition Over Sex Abuse Scandal
(Haaretz) — Following accusations of sex assault and fraud, four religious seminaries in Jerusalem have agreed to refund tuition to 13 American families. The four girls seminaries — Pninim, Binas Bais Yaakov, Chedvas Bais Yaakov and Keser Chaya, which are located in Jerusalem and have a large number of American students — were sued in…
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Life Keeping Orthodox Girls Dancing in Dark
(Haaretz) — It’s like homecoming weekend for Orthodox Jewish kids in Israel, minus the football game. The young members of the religious youth movement/scouting movement Bnei Akiva spend a full month preparing for what can only be described combination of a pep rally and a color war, culminating in a big ceremonial performance. It is…
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Fast Forward Rabbis Face Jail Time for ‘Private’ Weddings
Israel’s Cabinet has let stand an amendment which would subject to two years in jail a rabbi who performs a private wedding ceremony, as well as the couple who got married. The Cabinet debated the amendment to legislation passed last year which allows couples to go outside their own communities to find a rabbi certified…
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Fast Forward Jewish Teacher Jailed for Sexually Abusing Boys Deported to U.S.
An Orthodox Jewish teacher was deported to the United States after serving a jail sentence for sexually abusing four boys at a Jewish school in Melbourne more than two decades ago. David Kramer, 54, was sentenced last year to a non-parole period of 18 months after pleading guilty to abusing the four minors at the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Man Beaten at Brooklyn Subway Station
Three assailants beat an identifiably Jewish man while shouting anti-Semitic epithets at a Brooklyn train station. A bystander who intervened in the attack on Monday at the Marcy Avenue stop on the J line in the Williamsburg neighborhood also was attacked, the New York Daily News reported. The Jewish man, who was identified as a…
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Fast Forward Man Charged in Upper East Side Attack on Jewish Couple
A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested for assaulting an Orthodox Jewish couple in Manhattan this summer. A New York Police Department spokesman confirmed to JTA that Mustafa Mashni was charged with assault, as first reported on the Jpupdates website. The victims, in their 20s, were walking on the Upper East Side at approximately 8 p.m….
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Fast Forward East Ramapo Monitor Says Public School Board Favored Yeshivas
A state-appointed fiscal monitor has unveiled a blistering report on the Orthodox-dominated school board of the East Ramapo School District. In a presentation on November 17 to the state’s Board of Regents, monitor Henry Greenberg said that the board has favored the district’s private yeshivas over its public schools. “The widespread perception is that the…
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