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Life Among Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox, ‘Civics’ Takes On A Very Different Meaning
“We don’t discuss politics, gossip or slander,” declared the billboard, located on a busy thoroughfare in the ultra-orthodox suburb of Ramat Beit Shemesh. “We should distance ourselves from everything having to do with the elections as if from fire,” one cartoon boy on the billboard was portrayed saying. “My father told me that he also…
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News Women Victims Of Pittsburgh Bloodbath Get Erased By Hasidic Newspaper
A Hasidic newspaper left faces of the female victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre out of a front page spread on the tragedy. On the cover of its November 2 edition, the weekly Yiddish-language tabloid Di Tzeitung ran photos of the eight men slaughtered last Saturday at Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh. Underneath, in…
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Opinion Think All Orthodox Jews Are Zionists? Think Again.
Many non-Orthodox Jews assume that all Orthodox Jews must be fervent Zionists. Given the centrality of Israel in Jewish movements — at least until recently — the natural assumption is that the more religious you are, the more Zionist you must be. Surely if today’s Evangelical Christians are Zionists, the Orthodox must be as well….
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Fast Forward Ultra-Orthodox Radio Station Fined For Banning Women’s Voices On Air
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The haredi-Orthodox Kol Berama radio station was fined some $280,000 for keeping women’s voices off the air. The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday also ordered that the money, 1 million shekel, be held in a class action fund that will give the money to programs that empower religious women. The class action…
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Film & TV Ruchie Freier’s Fight Exemplifies Orthodox Feminism. Is That A Good Thing?
Many people assume that the hardest part of being an Orthodox woman is following the religious code. But it’s not — it’s playing by the social rules. The new documentary “93Queen” follows Judge Ruchie Freier, a Haredi woman, through the founding of the first all-female Orthodox EMT group, Ezras Nashim, and Freier’s campaign for Civil…
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Fast Forward 40 Haredi Orthodox Arrested For Protesting Arrest Of Draft-Dodging Student
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 40 haredi Orthodox protesters were arrested in Jerusalem during a demonstration against the arrest of a yeshiva student who refused to register for the draft. The demonstration on Thursday morning closed an intersection near the entrance of Jerusalem. Police and some of the estimated 400 protesters clashed during the demonstration,…
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Community Inflexibility Puts All Of Judaism In Jeopardy
Throughout the Tanach, God models extraordinary behavior and spotlights key virtues for the benefit of humankind, simultaneously sparing us pain and setting an example worth following. In fact, from the very first interaction with man, God establishes a precedent for acting and reacting with patience and compassion, and emphasizes the importance of living a life…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Mob Harasses Teen Girl In Jerusalem Over ‘Immodest’ Clothing
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A haredi Orthodox mob chased a teenage girl down a main thoroughfare in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh due to her “immodest” attire. City residents have been complaining about religiously motivated violence in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet neighborhood outside Jerusalem for years. Extremists there frequently clash with police attempting to…
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