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Haredi mag mistakenly publishes smutty content
The editors of an ultra-Orthodox magazine were embarrassed to realize that they have published photographs featuring smutty language recently. The popular gossip ...
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Ari Galahar (07:21 , 02.12.12 )
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Nazi commander's surgical box up for sale in UK
A surgical kit said to belong to a Nazi war criminal who oversaw a labor camp is being put up for auction in Britain. Villa Hall Auctions, a small auctioneer in ...
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Associated Press (08:07 , 02.11.12 )
Nude images hung in religious J'lem neighborhood
The Secular-haredi tensions over the exclusion of women reached new heights in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel where there is a growing haredi community. Local ...
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Kobi Nahshoni (14:43 , 02.10.12 )
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Georgia pastor apologizes to Jews
A Georgia megachurch leader is apologizing to a Jewish group that criticized him for taking part in a ceremony in which he was wrapped in a religious scroll and exalted ...
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Associated Press (07:18 , 02.10.12 )
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Conservative rabbis seek business skills
Fourteen Conservative rabbis graduated Wednesday morning from the Rabbinic Management Institute’s Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management at the American Jewish ...
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Ynetnews (15:15 , 02.09.12 )
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Knesset to vote on bill nixing religious draft-dodging
A joint Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Constitution, Law and Justice Committee team approved on Tuesday amendments to the bill seeking to impose tougher ...
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Moran Azulay (07:10 , 02.09.12 )
Extreme segregation at college cafeteria
Students at the Haredi College of Jerusalem were surprised recently to see a tall screen separating between men and women at the institution's public cafeteria, in ...
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Ari Galahar (14:03 , 02.08.12 )
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Holocaust database unites lost cousins
For five long years during World War II, Nahum Korenblum never left the side of his younger brother Yaakov as the two fled the Nazi invasion of Poland, escaped forced ...
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Associated Press (14:02 , 02.08.12 )
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Eda Haredit raises money to sue police
Eda Haredit members are fighting back against a recent wave of police arrests. The extreme ultra-Orthodox faction decided in recent days to step up its battle, and has ...
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Ari Galahar (08:42 , 02.08.12 )
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Religious schools to teach teens sex ed
Students attending national religious schools are to begin studying a new subject next year – sex education, Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The new course, titled "Home, ...
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Akiva Novick (15:02 , 02.07.12 )
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Austria far right leader hurt by 'new Jews' comment
The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party is taking a public relations beating after refusing to apologize for likening anti-fascist protesters to a Nazi mob and ...
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Reuters (07:13 , 02.07.12 )
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US Jewish publisher out with Talmud index
The Talmud, the 63-volume record of discussions among rabbis that is one of the most sacred books in Judaism, has lacked a comprehensive index for 1,500 years – until ...
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AFP (14:02 , 02.06.12 )
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Yiddish making a comeback at US colleges
A group of American college students stands in a semicircle, clapping and hopping on one foot as they sing in Yiddish: "Az der rebe zingt, Zingen ale khsidim!" "When ...
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Associated Press (14:00 , 02.06.12 )
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Nun may be honored for rescuing Jews
The year 2012 may be Raoul Wallenberg Year, but that’s not stopping other Righteous Gentiles from being honored for their herculean efforts in having saved Jews during ...
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Leonard Carl (08:20 , 02.06.12 )
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Haredi man takes 2nd wife, stirring row
The Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim is in a state of uproar after a young ultra-Orthodox man took a second wife before divorcing the first one. Pashkevilim ...
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Ari Galahar (17:46 , 02.05.12 )
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