admin | July 1, 2020
Historical Confederate monuments are being taken down and defaced from protests over the death of George Floyd. Storyful As America marks a month of protests against systemic racism and many peopledraw comparisons between current events and thecivil rights movement, an oversimplified trope about the Democratic Partys racist past has been resurrectedonline. Friendly reminder that if you support the Democrat Party, you support the party that founded the KKK and start a civil war to keep their slaves," claims animage of a tweetInstagram user @snowflake.tears shared on June on 19.
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admin | July 1, 2020
From the critically acclaimed Israeli hit series "Shtisel" -- in which universal struggles between generations just happen to be set within a Haredi (umbrella term for ultra-Orthodox) community -- to Netflix's original documentary "One of Us" -- an important but incomplete portrait of people who flee the Hasidic community -- depictions of extremely religious Jews are becoming more mainstream. And "Unorthodox," the latest series to offer insight into this community through the eyes of a young woman who flees a repressive marriage, provides four hours of voyeuristic thrills in a somewhat accurate, albeit one-dimensional portrait of Hasidim. At 15, I first encountered the fascination of outsiders with the world I grew up in
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admin | July 1, 2020
Sharon Pulwer was lost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, shortly after moving here from Israel to study photography, when she came across the black hats and modest clothes of religious Jews in New York City. A secular Jew, she was momentarily taken aback.
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admin | July 1, 2020
Shira is wearing a swimsuit by DODO BAR OR. The last couple of months were supposed to look a little different for Shira Haas.
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admin | July 1, 2020
Moshe Dror Tzanani, a senior rabbi in Rabbi Eliezer Berlands Shuvu Banim Hasidic community, has been recorded trying to explain away the accusations of sexual assault for which Berland was imprisoned. The recording, obtained by Haaretz, was made in the summer of 2016 just a few months before Berland was convicted in a plea deal of assault and indecent acts against women.
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admin | July 1, 2020
Sensible people laughed when they first heard calls to #DefundthePolice after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. No one should be laughing now. Some of this citys leading politicians are moving toward implementing versions of this dangerous concept, and ordinary Gothamites will pay the price
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