Hasidic Jews

Taking Back Our Souls: A Reaction To Sexual Abuse

Chava Tombosky | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Sex Abuse, Faith, Hasidic Jews, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Ultra-Orthodox Sex Abuse, Clergy Sex Abuse, Judaism, Religion News

As G-d stands watching our reaction, we are forced to create an initiative that I dare say, can take on a new day if we are willing and open. As a first step in destroying the silence, I invite you all to belong to a new community and a new higher consciousness.

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Sunshine Protects Child Abuse Victims

Tom Allon | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Ultra-Orthodox Child Abuse, Hasidic Jews, Charles Hynes Ultra-Orthodox, Ultra-Orthodox Sex Abuse, Charles Hynes, Journalism, New York News

Great journalism -- our society's sunlight which shines on our darkest places -- is helping parents and children get justice in Brooklyn. For that, I say, amen.

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Child Abuse in the Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Community

Ed Koch | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Hasidic Jews, Joe Hynes, Hasidic Jews Sexual Abuse, Hasidic Communities, Hasidic Jews Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews Sexual Abuse Scandal, New York News

The Times is now examining the sexual abuses taking place in the Jewish ultra-orthodox Hasidic community, primarily in Brooklyn, and the response of the Brooklyn District Attorney, Joe Hynes.

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Hasidic Marriages Are Not Forced, Nor Arranged. They Are Perhaps Recommended

Yossi Gestetner | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Judaism, Hasidic Jews, Arranged Marriage, Shiduch, Jewish Marriage, Orthodox Judaism, Hasidism, Religion News

One of the attacks often mounted against Hasidic life is a notion that Hasidic parents take a 17-year-old girl and 18-year-old boy, place them in a room against their will and an engagement is declared 30 minutes later.

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Rabbi Busted In Massive Illegal Cigarette Scheme

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: New York Crime, Cigarettes, New-York-City-Cigarette-Tax, Ny News, Hasidic Jews, Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York News, NY Crime, Rabbi, New York News

A Brooklyn rabbi could face up to 15 years in prison after being busted for selling illegal cigarettes. Rabbi Meshulam Rothschild is said to have chea...

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Unorthodox? Try This: A Young Hasidic Wife Breaks With Her Tradition, Writes Tell-All Book

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: The View, Hasidic Jews, Crown Heights, Deborah Feldman, Satmars, Video, Jews, Hasidic Jew, Satmar, Judaism, Sex, Chastity, Female Sexuality, Sexuality, Books News

"I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive," she writes. And what was she taught? In the slow-track classes for girls, nothing very academic, for a girl could realistically have no higher destiny than marriage at 17 and motherhood a year later.

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The Secret Life Of Hasidic Sexuality

Rabbi Adam Jacobs | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Mysticism, Hasidic Sexuality, Deborah Feldman, Oprah Winfrey, Judaism, Jewish Sexuality, Hasidic Jews, Religion and Sexuality, Amish, Sexuality, Religion News

To the average observant Jew, sex is not something mundane and titillating, but, rather, holy and sacred. From this perspective, it is the puerile obsessions of the secular world which are bizarre.

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Hasidic Man Burns Neighbor For Not Praying Right

Reuters | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Video, New City, Reutersm Hasidic, Hasidic Jew, Reuters, Grand Rebbe David Twersky, Hasidic Jews, Aron Rottenberg, Shaul Spitzer, New Square, Religion News

By Aman Ali NEW CITY, NY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A Hasidic Jewish man from New York state pleaded guilty to assault on Tuesday for setting...

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Ultra-Orthodox Judaism Need Not Be Obscurantist

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Lubavitcher Rebbe, Hasidic Jews, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Judaism, Religious Tolerance, Beit Shemesh Schoolgirl, Israel, Haredim, Haredi, Israel Haredim, Religion News

While one must not tar all ultra-Orthodox Jews with the brush of intolerance, the fact is that the antagonism displayed by haredim toward other Jews is becoming ever more extreme. It was not always thus.

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Rick Perry Gets Love From Mysterious Group In Brooklyn

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: New Hampshire Primary Election 2012, Video, New Hampshire Primary, South Carolina Primary, 2012 Election, New Hampshire Primary 2012, Brooklyn, Orthodox Jews, Rick Perry 2012, Elections 2012, Hasidic Jews, New Hampshire Primary Election, Rick Perry, Veterans, Politics News

Republican voters in Iowa may not have adored Rick Perry, but the Texas governor is feeling the love from a "New York state veterans support organizat...

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From Darkness To Light

Eitan Fishbane, Ph.D. | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Judaism, Sefat Emet, Shabbat, Judaism and Time, Jewish Wisdom, Hasidic Jews, Darkness and Light, Kabbalah, Holy Time, Jewish Mysticism, Religion News

Divinity is best characterized as a wondrous light that shines with the mystery of all that was, all that is and all that shall ever be. The eternal. The timeless.

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Bearded Rabbi Wins Federal Lawsuit, Will Join The Army In Miami Friday

The Huffington Post | Janie Campbell | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Rabbi Menachem Stern, Video, Jewish Rabbi, Jewish Chaplain, Military Chaplains, Rabbi Menachem Stern Joins the Army, Judaism, Miami News, The Aleph Institute, Hasidic Jews, Military News, Military Dress Code, Rabbi Menachem Stern Wins Lawsuit, Orthodox Judaism, Miami News

Thanks in part to help from a local organization that assists Jewish military personnel and their families, a bearded Rabbi will finally be sworn into...

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Police Launch Investigation Into Latest Anti-Semitic Crime In Brooklyn

The Huffington Post | Melissa Jeltsen | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Hasidic Jews, Hate Crimes, Brooklyn Hate Crimes, Anti-Semitic Crimes, Brooklyn Swastika, Anti-Semitic, Swastika, Midwood, New York News

The string of anti-Semitic crimes in Brooklyn continues. The New York City Police Department is now investigating an incident in which a swastika ...

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Did Oprah Go To The Mikveh For Her New Show?

Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Hasidic Jews, Menstruation, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah, Mikveh, Judaism, Oprah Mikveh, Oprah's Next Chapter, Oprah Visist Mikveh, Jewish Ritual Bath, Oprah Jewish Ritual Bath, Religion News

What has Oprah Winfrey been doing since ending her long-running afternoon talk show? If your only news source was JTA.org, you might think that she has embraced Judaism on the level of Madonna.

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Bloomberg To Segregating Passengers: Get Your Own Bus

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Hasidic Jews, Williamsburg, Mayor Bloomberg, Brooklyn, Ny News, Orthodox Jews, Department of Transportation, Video, New York News

Mayor Bloomberg isn't sympathizing with Orthodox Jews over the use of sex-segregated buses in Brooklyn. At a news conference on Wednesday, Bloombe...

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WATCH: Yom Kippur Tradition Causes Controversy Over Chicken Slaughterings

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Chickens, Animal Rights, Jewish, Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews, Kaporos, Yom Kippur 2011, Video, New York News

Yom Kippur, the most sacred day on the Jewish calendar, kicks off at sundown Friday and lasts until nightfall Saturday. Synagogues across the count...

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Levi Aron Sued For $100 Million By Boy's Father

Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Murder, Video, Nypd, Nachman Kletzky, Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews, Leiby Kletzky Murder, Leiby Kletzky, Levi Aron, New York News

Nachman Kletzky, the father of murdered 8-year old Leiby Kletzky, is suing the boy's alleged killer Levi Aron for 100 million dollars for what the fam...

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Child Killer Suspect 'Likes' Facebook Group 'IS YOUR FAMILY SAFE...'

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: 35, Kletzky, Nypd, Levi Aron Facebook, Levi Aron Brooklyn, Raymond Kelly, Ny News, Aron Levi, Hasidic Jews, New York News, NY Crime, Leiby Kletzky, Levi Aron, Video, New York News

Levi Aron was arrested earlier today in the kidnapping and murder of 8 year-old Leiby Kletzky, The New York Post reports, after authorities raided his...

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Missing Brooklyn Boy Found Dead

AP/The Huffington Post | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Nypd, Ny News, Shomrim, Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews, Dov Hikind, New York News, Missing Child, Leibby Kletzky, Video, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- A young Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home from a day camp in one of the safest parts of the city was killed and dismembere...

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WATCH: Massive Search For Missing Brooklyn Boy

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Crime Stoppers, Nypd, Brooklyn, Shomrim, Ny News, Hasidic Jews, Dov Hikind, New York News, Missing Child, Leibby Kletzky, Video, New York News

UPDATE: Leiby Kletzsky's body was found dismembered in Brooklyn Wednesday morning. Police say parts of the boy's body were found in the refrigerator o...

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The Hasidic Jewish Party To Bring Redemption (PHOTOS)

Zachary A. Bennett | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Rabbi Nachman, Na Nach Movement, Jewish Graffiti, Rabbi Ber Odesser, Judaism, Na Nach, Slidepollajax, Hasidic Jews, Nachman of Breslov, Nachman of Bratslav, Breslov, Religion News

The Na Nachs are a lot like your everyday Orthodox Jews, except they believe serving God involves blasting trance music, dancing on top of vans and painting their mantra on walls.

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WATCH: A Wedding Planner For Needy Families

Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Hasidic Wedding, Crown Heights Hasidic Jews, Crown Heights, Hasidic Jews Wedding, Devorah Benjamin Weddings, Devorah Benjamin, Crown Heights Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews, Ny Impact, New York News

Devorah Benjamin said she's planned or help finance around 4,000 weddings. In the Hasidic section of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Benjamin said she's a ...

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Angle: Racking up Millions as She Spreads Islamophobia

Jehan S. Harney | Posted 05.25.2011

Sharia (meaning legislation in English) is simply the rules that govern the lives of Muslims from daily prayers and fasting to inheritance. Sharia does not -- and never will -- apply to non-Muslims.

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Excuse Me, Are You...?

Angela Himsel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yom Kippur, Hasidic Jews, Chabad, Tefillin, High Holy Days, Judaism, Shehechyanu, New York News

As I'm exiting the subway station at Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, I pass a bearded Hassidic man and overhear him saying to a secular-looking young man, "Do you need help putting on teffilin?"

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When Bikinis and Black Hats Collide

Brad Hirschfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pornography, Freedom of Speech, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Brooklyn, Sex, Hasidic Jews, Taliban, New York City, New York, Sexuality, Freedom of Religion, Afghanistan War, New York News

I don't like the bikini ads. But I love both the freedom which currently allows them, and the political process through which they might be removed, a whole lot more.

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