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Category Archives: Orthodox Jews
Teaneck Rabbis: Whatever it is, we deny it!
The orthodox rabbis in Teaneck, NJ who have pushed the local newspaper, the NJ Jewish Standard, to refuse to carry Jewish same-sex union announcements, have, with one exception, refused to allow their names to be known. As the NY Times … Continue reading
Posted in Gay and lesbian, Jewish, Judaism, Media, Orthodox Jews, Uncategorized
Tagged avi smolen, bergen county, censorship, freedom of the press, homophobia, james janoff, Justin Rosen, nj jewish news, nj jewish standard, rabbinical council of bergen county, rcbc, rutgers university homophobia, teaneck new jersey, tyler clementi
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NJ Jewish paper unlikely to reverse decision in face of orthodox threats.
People familiar with the situation in Teaneck, NJ, the home of the NJ Jewish Standard, caution that it is extremely unlikely that the publisher of the newspaper, James Janoff, will reverse his policy of refusing to publish same-sex … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, American politics, Gay and lesbian, Hasidim, Jewish, Judaism, Kosher slaughtering, Lubavitcher, Media, Orthodox Jews, Torah, United States
Tagged boycott, gay and lesbian jews, homophobia, james janoff, kosher restaurants, New Jersey, nj jewish standard, orthodox jews, same sex marriage, same sex union, teaneck new jersey
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NJ Jewish paper threatened by orthodox thugs.
Our previous story detailed the decision by the NJ Jewish Standard to change its policy of printing announcements of local Jewish couples by specifically excluding same-sex unions authorized by New Jersey law. After we published the story we were inundated … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, American politics, Business, Citizen journalism, Jewish, Judaism, Orthodox Jews, Torah, United States
Tagged boycott jewish, gay marriage, new jersey jewish standard, nj jewish standard, orthodox jews, Rebecca Kaplan Boroson, same sex union, teaneck new jersey, torah and gay, torah and homosexuality
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Black Orthodox Jewish population growing.
(The following article is reprinted from the NY Times where it originally appeared on 28 August 2010.) Black and Jewish, and Seeing No Contradiction By TRYMAINE LEE In yeshivas, they are sometimes taunted as “monkeys” or with the Yiddish epithet … Continue reading
Jewish support for Obama evaporating.
Charles Blow, a NY Times columnist has finally broken the news that those in the Jewish community have known for some time. American Jews are turning away from Obama. They increasingly see him and his administration as hostile to Israel … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, American politics, Anti-Israel, Christian, Islam, Islam and the US, Israel, Jewish, Media, Middle East, Obama, Orthodox Jews, Self-hating Jews, Terrrorism, United States, US - Israel relations, Zionism
Tagged democrats, israel us relations, jews and obama, obama, polls, republican jews
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The power of the Sabbath.
Thousands of years ago and even today in many places, people and their animals worked everyday. In much of the world, many businesses are open everyday and people use the weekends to shop and do business of various kinds. However, … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, Bible, Christian, Hebrew, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Orthodox Jews, Torah
Tagged Judaism, sabbath, sabbath observance, shabat, shabbos, torah
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50% Russian Jews in Israel leave.
What is it with a country like Israel that it cannot get people to stay unless they are well-connected ( ie. second, third generation Israelis), have independent wealth ( wealthy Westerners, mainly American Jews) who retire there and are self-sufficient, … Continue reading
Orthodox conversion bill alienates most Jews.
It’s hard not to be cynical about the latest conversion controversy in Jerusalem that threatens to further divide an already fragmented Jewish People for no reason but one: internal Israeli politics. If the Knesset continues to move ahead, as indicated … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, American politics, Bible, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Orthodox Jews, Torah, Zionism
Tagged conservative jews, converts to judaism, jewish conversion, lieberman, reform judaism, rotem, sharansky
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Pro-Israel voters may decide Pennsylvania vote.
Pennsylvania may be the testing grounds for using pro-Israel political advertising to capture the Christian Evangelical and Jewish vote. 2.3% of the population of the state is Jewish, approximately 300,000 voters. They are found in major population centers throughout the … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, American politics, Anti-Israel, Christian, Israel, Judaism, Middle East, Obama, Orthodox Jews, Palestinian, Zionism
Tagged bill kristol, christian evangelical voters, emergency committee for israel, gary bauer, israel, jewish voters, joe sestak, media advertising, middle east politics, pat toomey, Pennsylvania politics, pro-israel voters, rachel abrams, us-israel politics
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Jewish inspiration: Death bed confession.חיזוק לעם
“Water!” the invalid rasped in a whispery voice. The astounded doctors, who had given up the unconscious man for dead, were shocked to hear his voice again. The priest, who had taken his final confession, turned pale. Had a miracle … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Orthodox Jews, Torah
Tagged Anusim, crypto-jews, forced conversions, Jews in Spain, Judaism, spanish confeso, torah
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Hasidic Sex Symbol: Punk Jews
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Hasidic sex symbols. Several year ago, still sporting payess and a more-or-less Chasidic appearance, I met a girl in Greenwich village who stopped me on McDougal Street to tell me, “I think Hasidic … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, Europe, Gay and lesbian, Hasidim, Hebrew, Israel, Jewish, Lubavitcher, Orthodox Jews, UK, Yiddish
Tagged brooklyn, ex-Hasidim, ex-orthodox Jews, ex-religious, haredi, haredim, hasidim, hebrew language, israel, jewish, Jewish music, Jewish underground, jews, lubavitch, new york, orthodox jews, Punk Jews, torah, yiddish
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Russian President visits Yiddish-speaking Jewish homeland.
Dimitry Medvedev, the president of Russia, has come to Birobidzhan, the only Yiddish-speaking Jewish homeland outside of Brooklyn. Asked at the local airport why he had come to the Jewish Autonomous Republic, he said, ” If you only knew how … Continue reading
Posted in Hasidim, Jewish, Lubavitcher, Orthodox Jews, Russia, Yiddish
Tagged birobidjan, birobidzhan, Dmitry Medvedev, haredim, hasidim, jews, lubavitch, orthodox jews, russia, yiddish
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Orthodox rabbi ordains woman; Major protests follow.
It definitely is a first in Jewish history. The first orthodox woman rabbi. And she earned it in a way that no man ever has done. She went through all the rabbinical training for three years at Manhattan’s Drisha Institute. … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, Bible, Education, Jewish, Orthodox Jews
Tagged avi weiss, female orthodox rabbi, jewish, jews, Judaism, orthodox jews, rabbah, rabbi avi weiss, rabbi sara hurwitz, torah
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Kick me, I’m Jewish. Jewish Decoys in the Netherlands.
Here in the States there are certain neighborhoods where anyone dressed with a yarmulka ( Jewish skull cap) or wearing orthodox garb, stands a good chance of inviting verbal attacks and possibly physical violence. The situation is even worse in … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Crime, Europe, Hasidim, Jewish, Lubavitcher, Media, Orthodox Jews
Tagged Amsterdam, anti-jewish violence, anti-semitism, attacks on Jews, crime, Europe, haredi, haredim, hasidim, jewish, jews, netherlands, orthodox jews
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Yiddish alive and doing quite well, thank you.
For years I have been hearing secular Jews tell me that Yiddish is dead. Meanwhile, people have continued to speak Yiddish but, if you listen to the rest of the world, they don’t exist or, maybe, don’t count. While languages … Continue reading
Posted in American Jews, Education, Europe, Hasidim, Israel, Jewish, Lubavitcher, Media, Orthodox Jews, UK, Yiddish
Tagged algemayner zeitung, der yid, haredi, haredim, jewish, jewish languages, jews, new york, orthodox jews, yiddish
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Jerusalem Gay Pride parade route rejected.
The Jerusalem Open House organization is launching its annual Gay Pride parade on July 29, but the Jerusalem police have rejected the suggested route of the parade, which was to culminate at the Knesset building where a rally was to … Continue reading
Posted in Gay and lesbian, Hasidim, Israel, Jewish, Middle East, Orthodox Jews
Tagged gay jews, gay pride israel, haredi, haredim, hasidim, israel, israel gay pride parade, jerusalem, jewish, jews, middle east, orthodox jews
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US Hasidic town wins first prize…for poverty.
Kiryas Yoel, a Hasidic town in upper New York state, has now earned the dubious distinction of being the fastest growing place in the region as well as the poorest city in America and the one with the greatest number … Continue reading
Posted in Hasidim, Jewish, Orthodox Jews, Yiddish
Tagged haredi, haredim, hasidim, jewish, Kiryas Yoel, Monroe County, new york, orthodox jews, Satmar, yiddish
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Why 27 years for Rubashkin?
Sholom Rubashkin, head of Agriprocessors, a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa, was just convicted on 86 counts of fraud. His sentence was 27 years in federal prison. Parole is not allowed in the federal prison system. U.S. District Court Chief Judge … Continue reading
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