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Fast Forward Hasids Object To Video Of ‘Idol-Worshipping’ Pope Dancing
A feel-good video of Pope Francis dancing with a group of rabbis at the Vatican didn’t feel so good to some haredi Orthodox Jews, whose criticisms drew an apology from one of the rabbis who took part. Rabbi Dovber Pinson, a Chabad rabbi and the dean of the Iyyun Yeshiva in Brooklyn, N.Y., wrote a…
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Fast Forward Hasid Runs For Mayor Of British City — As Far-Right Candidate
Rabbi Schneur Odze has proven to be an unorthodox candidate for mayor of the British city of Manchester. He’s the pick of the far-right U.K. Independence Party, has refused to shake hands with women rivals, burned a Bible and now his alleged penchant for kinky sex has come out into the open. “What Greater Manchester…
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Fast Forward QUIZ: Can You Tell The Difference Between Korean and Hasidic Music?
Updated, 1:06 p.m. An unusual quiz is circulating in Jewish social media — challenging listeners to distinguish between snippets of Hasidic and Korean music. Most of the music clips are up-beat and electronic — and it’s surprisingly difficult. “There are many things Koreans and Hasidic Jews have in common: An emphasis on studying, good food,”…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Parents Won’t Rat Out Mohels Who Gave Their Kids Herpes
Parents of four Hasidic Jewish children infected with herpes by ritual circumcision will not tell the New York City Department of Health the names of the mohels who did the procedures, according to the agency. “Unfortunately, some in the community are resistant to sharing the name of the mohels,” Christopher Miller told DNAInfo. “This is…
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Fast Forward Ex-Mayor Of Guatemala Town Jailed For Expelling Hasidic Sect
(JTA) — The former mayor of a small town in western Guatemala was sentenced to a year in prison for expelling the Lev Tahor sect of haredi Orthodox Jews. Antonio Adolfo Perez y Perez of San Juan La Laguna was found guilty of coercion in the expulsion, which took place in 2014. Up to 500 members of…
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Fast Forward Williamsburg’s Hasidic Pool Wars Heating Up Again Before Summer
It’s spring in Williamsburg and that means one thing: Hasidic groups and New York City are gearing up for another fight over single-sex swimming hours at public pools. The city originally granted the single-sex swimming hours at two area pools as an accommodation to the area’s Hasidic women, whose code of modesty precludes them from…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Pilgrims Survive Plane Mayday
An emergency cabin depressurization on a Titan Airways flight left a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews fearing for their lives on March 19. The plane was flying from London to Rzeszow in Poland when a Mayday signal was sent out, the cabin lost pressure, and oxygen masks came down. The ultra-Orthodox Jews were flying to visit…
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Fast Forward Stubborn Stains? Try This Hasidic Trick
I was in the waiting room at my doctor’s office when I struck up a conversation with two Hasidic women. They were only in their thirties, but between the two of them, they had 17 children. They braced themselves when I said I needed to pick their brains on something. “How do I get those…
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