admin | February 5, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) What do murderous anti-Semites and yeshiva education activists have in common? Nothing at all. But you wouldnt know that from recent comments by prominent members of the haredi Orthodox community, who have taken to connecting the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks to those who advocate for improved curricula at Hasidic yeshivas, including myself and others whose entire elementary and high school education took place within such schools
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admin | February 5, 2020
Yisrael Beiteinu party leader Avigdor Lieberman depicts himself as a leader of efforts to curb draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students. He even scuttled the formation of two coalition governments over the issue, but a Haaretz investigation found that, while he was defense minister, his office arranged military exemptions for hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men. Lieberman denies the allegations, but according to the accounts, his term as defense minister, from 2016 to 2018, was a golden age of sorts for well-connected ultra-Orthodox men seeking to avoid the draft
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admin | February 5, 2020
When she faces a big life or career decision, Samantha Kanofsky seeks advice from the trees. For example, after graduating from Pomona College with a degree in environmental studies in 2009, Kanofsky moved back to her hometown of Berkeley.
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admin | February 5, 2020
How do cultural myths homogenize individuals within that culture? How do we express the variance within American Jewish culture
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admin | January 31, 2020
We all know how frigid Montreal winters can be. The cold slices through your bones mercilessly amid the snow and the long, dark nights
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admin | January 31, 2020
BP Adams presented community members with 'Heroes of the Month' awards on Tuesday. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams gave Heroes of the Month awards to five Brooklyn leaders, including a Met Council program director who delivered kosher food to the Jersey City Hasidic community following Decembers hate crime shooting. Other honorees included a community leader who organized a Bay Ridge rally against white nationalism, NYPD rescuers of a heart attack victim and an officer who stopped a suicide and infanticide attempt.
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admin | January 31, 2020
An attorney for the man accused of attacking a group of Hasidic Jews with a machete at a New York Hanukkah celebration claimed his client is too incompetent to stand trial. Grafton Thomas, 37, pleaded not guilty to several counts of attempted murder, burglary, and federal hate crimes after he was arrested after an attack that injured five people, including Josef Neumann, 72, who remains in a coma after being struck in the head with the machete. On Monday, Thomass attorney, Michael Sussman, notified the judge overseeing the case that a psychiatrist deemed Thomas too incompetent to understand the charges against him and stand trial
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admin | January 31, 2020
Chuck Winning (left) and Spencer Sickmann in "My Name Is Asher Lev." Ask most theatergoers what they remember about a performance, and theyre likely to focus on the acting. But quite a lot can be communicated before a word is spoken, as in the case of My Name Is Asher Lev, onstage through Feb. 9 in a spellbinding New Jewish Theatre production.
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admin | January 28, 2020
A psychiatrist has foundthe man accused of stabbing five Jews in Monsey,N.Y., during a Hanukkah celebration last month too incompetent to stand trial, according to the man's lawyer. In a statement toTheAssociated Press, Michael Sussman, the lawyer for Grafton Thomas, said he has asked a federal judge to hold a competency evaluation for his client. The court gave the U.S
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admin | January 28, 2020
NEW YORK (JTA) Earlier this month, Deborah Lauter stood in a Holocaust museum among students of color from a Brooklyn public school trying to explain why the museum is relevant to the current rise in anti-Semitism in their borough. The Holocaust didnt happen in a vacuum, Lauter told the students. It started with egg throwing.
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