Orthodox women speak out about abuse they say they endured from therapist
Therapist charged with assault in case involving two women from Rockland County, New York
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Mike Lawler of New York’s Hudson Valley was elected in November with signficant Orthodox support
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Fast Forward No polio virus found in NY county wastewater 6 months after Jewish man was paralyzed
Rockland County, which has highest per capita Jewish population in the US, reports 14,000 vaccine doses given since July
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News At a polio vaccine clinic in Monsey, tensions between Orthodox and secular residents
The area, where an Orthodox Jewish man contracted the first U.S. case of polio in a decade, has long been a center of vaccine hesitancy
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Opinion Vaccine hesitancy is not a uniquely Haredi problem
The first case of polio in years was recently revealed to be an Orthodox Jewish man, leading some to blame the community at large
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News No ‘Super Jewish’ district, but increased Orthodox influence in New York’s capital
Orthodox leaders are welcoming newly drawn lines that could for the first time give a member of the upstate New York community a shot at a seat in the state legislature. A new Rockland County district is the good news for Orthodox Jews looking for more representation in Washington and Albany, where the Democratically controlled…
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Fast Forward Jewish candidate’s signs vandalized in Rockland County
More than a dozen signs promoting Joshua Eisen, a Jewish congressional candidate from New York’s Rockland County, were vandalized on Tuesday night, in addition to signs for his opponent, according to a report by News 12 Westchester. The vandalized signs, spray-painted with phrases like “Nazi lover” were found in the towns of Monsey, Suffern and…
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News In this diverse, changing suburb, liberal Jews are struggling to understand their Hasidic neighbors
Sometimes, when Katrina Hertzberg sees a visibly Jewish person in her neighborhood in Nyack, N.Y. — a woman wearing a wig, say, or a man in a black suit and hat — she thinks to herself, “Oh my God, are we next?” She wonders whether her area of Rockland County, N.Y., is next to receive…
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