A Hasidic Star Takes The Stage With The Perfect Dream – Forward
admin | December 9, 2019
The biggest sensation in the Hasidic music world has asked me to meet him at a Lakewood strip mall.
Doctors accused of giving drugs to yeshiva students to curb their sexual desires – The Times of Israel
admin | December 9, 2019
The Health Ministry will reportedly investigate four psychiatrists after a television report said they had prescribed drugs to ultra-Orthodox students, including minors, to inhibit their sexual desires. In an expose aired over the weekend, Channel 12 sent two formerly ultra-Orthodox men undercover to seek care from the prominent mental health professionals Prof
The Fray: Cuomo signs bill allowing Ulster towns, villages to raise conservation funds – Times Herald-Record
admin | December 8, 2019
Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Friday that enables Ulster County towns and villages to tax property sales and use the proceeds to buy land or development rights as a conservation measure.
Kids in These Neighborhoods Are Way More Likely to Be Exposed to Lead – BKLYNER
admin | December 7, 2019
From Comptrollers report BORO PARK, FLATBUSH, GREENPOINT High rates of childhood lead exposure remains a persistent issue in a handful of neighborhoods, despite an overall drop city-wide, NYC Department of Health (DOH) reports. Borough Park and Greenpoint, which for this study included much of Williamsburg, have the highest concentration of children under the age of six with a blood lead level (BLL) of more than 5 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) the level that the CDC considers much higher than most childrens levels. These neighborhoods are home to some of the largest Hasidic communities in the world
Violence against Jews is reprehensible-but isolated attacks distract us from the bigger threats – Heritage Florida Jewish News
admin | December 7, 2019
NEW YORK (JTA)Although it hasnt yet been determined whether the brutal stabbing of a young father on his way to morning prayers in Ramapo, New York, was a an anti-Jewish hate crime, it was described by the local police chief as a vicious, violent attack and would certainly fit the ugly pattern of violence against identifiably Jewish Jews over recent months. Like the 64-year-old rabbi who was hit in the head with a brick while on his daily morning walk in Crown Heights. He was hospitalized with a broken nose, missing teeth, stitches on his head and lacerations on his body
Amazon on the ballot NYC vs. Newark on homeless program Would-be taxi chief ships out – Politico
admin | December 7, 2019
Queens voters never got to weigh in on Amazons scuttled plans for a massive new headquarters in their borough, which evaporated when the company faced a torrent of political opposition. Soon, theyll get their say.
Thank you for the Wi-Fi – WORLD News Group
admin | December 5, 2019
In my neighborhood Starbucks, Ive watched Hasidic Jews study and argue over the Torah together and homeless people come in for free ice water and internet. Kids get bananas after school while their mom gets a latte
Why the most fiercely anti-Zionist rabbi in the world just visited Israel – Haaretz
admin | December 1, 2019
The visit to Israel of Zalman Teitelbaum, one of the two men claiming the title of third "Satmar Rebbe," the other being his older brother Aaron, has stirred much attention. He was greeted by throngs of his ultra-Orthodox followers as he entered Jerusalem, the city from which the first Satmar Rebbe, Yoelish Teitelbaum, his granduncle, ignominiously left in 1946. He had left Jerusalem only a year after he had arrived, having failed to build and sustain a small yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter
Photos of the Week – Religion News Service
admin | December 1, 2019
(RNS) Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This weeks gallery includes the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York, convictions in an Argentine clergy abuse case, and more.
The Fray: Write-in count confirms election of first Palm Tree judges – Times Herald-Record
admin | December 1, 2019
The Town of Palm Tree appears to have its first elected judges: two lawyers from outside the Hasidic community whose names were written in at the Nov. 5 election with the endorsement of the Anash political party.
