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Fast Forward Could $50,000 get you to move to Rhode Island? This Orthodox community wants to find out
Providence, Rhode Island, has about 100 Orthodox families. Local leaders want more
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Fast Forward A 35-foot challah in NYC attempts to break a Guinness World Record
The gargantuan loaf was a collaboration between Congregation Rodeph Sholom, Jewish Federations of North America and the Orthodox Union
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Fast Forward Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94
Charlop once said that his ideal YU would be “a yeshiva like Volozhin,” a legendary seminary in what is now Belarus, and a university like Columbia
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Fast Forward Passengers accuse JetBlue of antisemitism after Orthodox Jews ordered off plane
Flight crew complained that passengers who switched seats made them uncomfortable
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Opinion Some Israeli Haredim are joining the IDF. Can secular Jews get along with them?
The current war can help secular Jews understand that the Haredim are not the threat they’re often made out to be
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News How the Israel-Hamas war exposed a rift in Haredi Orthodox Judaism
Some Haredi leaders disparaged the DC rally for Israel. The backlash has been fierce
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News ‘House of Lev’: A former hip hop dancer and makeup artist document their new Orthodox life online
Akiva and Chava Hart and their 6 children converted to Judaism Nov. 5, but have been creating Jewish content online for a year
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Fast Forward Former Cuomo aide alleges that Kushner was behind Boro Park protests during COVID-19 outbreak
Melissa DeRosa, fomer Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s right hand, recounts the Orthodox protests against the governor following the blowup of a ‘nonaggression pact’ with Trump
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