richards | February 26, 2017
Photo Credit: courtesy, Ramapo Police Department Residents of the Hasidic village of New Square were horrified Tuesday night to find the words GET OUT and large Nazi swastikas were painted in black on a fence that borders the community on Polnoya Road. The six-foot fence separates a school in the village from a rehabilitation facility in New City, on the other side
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richards | February 26, 2017
Menashe is part of a community where not being strict about the rules gets your kids thrown out of school, being unmarried is frowned upon and the religious leader decides the fate of the people. Menashe is a Hasidic Jew living in New York, a man who wants to retain custody of his young son at all costs, despite being single, not particularly well-employed and an outcast.
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richards | February 26, 2017
DALY CITY, California (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) Show up on a Shabbat morning at Congregation Bnai Israel in this Northern California suburb and, if youre a typical American Jew, you will see plenty thats familiar. At the front of the sanctuary is an ark, and inside the ark are several Torah scrolls.
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