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Breaking News Haredi Newspaper Der Yid (Sort Of) Endorses Hillary Clinton
After three Jewish newspapers came out to endorse Donald Trump this week, Hillary Clinton got a pre-Shabbat declaration of support in the pages of Der Yid, a Brooklyn weekly that serves the Satmar Hasidic community. “Throughout the years that Secretary Clinton served as New York’s Senator, and then as Secretary of State, she was sympathetic…
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Breaking News In a First, a Brooklyn Yeshiva Agrees to $2.1 Million Child Sex Abuse Settlement
An Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva has agreed to pay two of its former students $2.1 million for alleged sexual molestation they suffered at age six from a senior rabbi on the school’s faculty—the first known case of such a settlement by a Jewish day school. Yeshiva Torah Temimah, a prominent school on Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway with…
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Breaking News Why Ultra-Orthodox May Back ‘Tough’ Donald Trump — Doesn’t Hurt That He’s a Man
(JTA) — American Jews are likely to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, but American Jewry’s fastest-growing community is likely to go the other way. A solid majority of haredi Orthodox Jews will vote for Donald Trump, say experts and Republican operatives in the haredi enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn. While poll data isn’t available…
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Israel News Ultra-Orthodox Mom Fired for Getting Driver’s License To Help Disabled Daughter
JERUSALEM — A haredi Orthodox teacher in a girls’ school in the largely haredi West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit reportedly was fired from her long-time position after obtaining a drivers’ license. The woman obtained the driver’s license in order to more easily transport her disabled daughter, the haredi Orthodox news website Kikar Shabbat reported…
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Israel News Are Ultra-Orthodox Ready To Join Israel’s Start-Up Nation Boom?
Avreimi Wingut uses what is known in the ultra-Orthodox world as a “kosher” cell phone, without access to YouTube or Facebook. But as the co-founder of Kama Tech, an Israeli organization supporting Haredim in Israel’s high tech workforce, he hopes to see more religious Jews working in companies like these. There’s no contradiction there, he…
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Breaking News British Ultra-Orthodox Crowdsource $1.3M for Push To Keep Children from Secular Parents
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews in London have launched a fundraising effort to keep “pure and holy” children within the community and away from the “evil culture” of a secular parent, according to a report by The Independent. he goal of the campaign is to raise £1 million to cover the legal fees of parents…
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News Lakewood Yeshivas Score $7 Million for School Busing From New Jersey
A New Jersey law will give $7 million in state funds to a consortium of Orthodox yeshivas in Lakewood to spend on school busing, even as the cash-strapped school district struggles with a crippling financial crisis. The windfall comes after state-appointed monitors in the Lakewood school district threatened to cut busing to all public and…
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The Schmooze Hillary Clinton Makes History, Gets Photo of Hand Published in Ultra-Orthodox Newspaper
In an unlikely turn of events, the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Ne’eman has been thrust into the spotlight as a paragon of feminism and progressive media ethics. The newspaper has, for the first time in its history, published a picture of a woman, Only Simchas reported. And not just any woman: Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. But,…
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