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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Hold Rally Against The Internet

AP | Posted 05.21.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet ...

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Unorthodox: What Deborah Feldman Found at Sarah Lawrence

SLCSpeaks | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Sarah Lawrence College, Roald Dahl, Deborah Feldman, Orthodox Jews, Books, Writing, Orthodox, Poetry, College News

Although the media portrays Feldman as an anomaly, she uses archetypes to create a real-life fairy tale familiar to any Sarah Lawrence student who has asked to bum a cigarette outside of the library, or had to explain to their Facebook friends that they aren't gay.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews To Hold Rally Against The Internet

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: The Internet, Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, Jews, Orthodox Jews Internet, Video, Orthodox Jews, Haredi Jew, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Technology, Haredi Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Technology News

A mass rally against the Internet and technology held by a group of Haredim, or ultra-orthodox Jews, will take place in Queens, New York on May 20, re...

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In Passover Preparations, Israeli Chefs Target Every Last Crumb

AP | DANIELLA CHESLOW | Posted 04.06.2012

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TEL AVIV, Israel — The Jewish springtime Passover holiday is known as a festival of freedom, but its hallmark is a litany of dietary restriction...

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A Train Ride With Avraham

Matt Adler | Posted 04.03.2012

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All my life I had worked to build my confidence as a member of the LGBT community. And here was a man from halfway around the world whom I had never met before telling me whom to sleep with. This man whom I worked so hard not to stereotype was proving to be ever so stereotypical.

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This Country's Poor Get Free Plastic Surgery

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Michael Salzhauer, Video, Poverty, Cosmetic Procedures, Ivo Pitanguy, Orthodox Jews, Brazil, Plastic Surgery, The Daily Mail, Teachers, Cosmetic Surgery, Pro Bono, Business News

Want a nose job but just can't afford one? Head to Brazil. In Brazil, the second biggest consumer of plastic surgery, cosmetic procedures have beco...

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'Jewcan Sam' Doc Offers More Controversial Free Surgery

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Michael Salzhauer, Matchmaking, Video, Free Plastic Surgery, Yitta Halberstam, Shidduch, Orthodox Jews, Miami News

Miami plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer recently incited controversy when he produced a rock video, "Jewcan Sam," in which a young Jewish man only get...

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Nose Job Doc In Hot Water For Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Michael Salzhauer, Jews, Video, Orthodox Jews, Plastic Surgery, Jewcan Sam, Small Business News and Trends, ABC News, Cosmetic Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Nose Job, Investigation, Small Business News

Michael Salzhauer, a Miami cosmetic surgeon and small-business owner, has a nose for inviting controversy. The so-called Dr. Schnoz has produced a roc...

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Jewish Extremists Prompt Culture War In Israel

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 01.09.2012

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JERUSALEM -- If they hadn't been stirred already by the female soldier who was called a "slut" on a public bus, or the 8-year-old girl spit on by neig...

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Rick Perry Gets Love From Mysterious Group In Brooklyn

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.06.2012

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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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To Beard or Not to Beard, That Is the Question: Musings on the Fall of Matisyahu's Facial Locks and Other Natural Disasters

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Matisyahu, Jews, Judaism, Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah and Friends, Orthodox Jews, Beards, Culture News

Our country is pure, and raw and passionate, and all the same structured, and ordered and cultivated. So too, should all real individuals be. And only a man with a beard can combine the bohemian and the bourgeoisie in a manner that we can read upon his face.

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Oy! Some Jewish Voters Not Hot For Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.15.2011

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When Newt Gingrich recently called Palestinians an "invented" people and refused to take it back, everyone from the liberal advocacy group J Street to...

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Jewish Women Seek To Join All-Male EMT Corps

AP | By CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Judaisim, Hatzolah, Midwifery, Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jews, New York City, Emergency Medical Technicians, Religion News

NEW YORK -- Most Orthodox Jewish women avoid touching men except direct relatives. They don't sit next to men on buses or even at weddings. They have ...

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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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Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Rethink Yom Kippur Chicken-Swinging Ritual

AP | By DANIELLA CHESLOW | Posted 12.06.2011

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By DANIELLA CHESLOW, Associated Press JERUSALEM -- For generations, ultra-Orthodox Jews have marked Yom Kippur by swinging live chickens over their...

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Introducing The 'Kosher' Facebook

Worldcrunch | Posted 11.09.2011

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Facebook is certainly a lot of fun, but for some Orthodox Jews, it can also be a bit risqué. In an effort to keep social networking both clean and ko...

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HuffPost Religion Round-Up: August 14-21

Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 10.21.2011

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World Youth Day, Crown Heights, Ramadan Reflections, Women Religious Leaders, Orthodox Gays And Lesbians Marrying Each Other, and Kiddie Preachers.. It has been a busy week on HuffPost Religion.

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Reporters Change An Insular Jewish World

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Jewish Media, Orthodox Jews Media, Ultra Orthodox, Orthodox Jews, Haredim, Media News

JERUSALEM — In the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, the fact that the news is being reported is itself important news. A decade ...

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How a Grandmother's Unfulfilled Destiny Inspired a Captivating Novel

Carol Hoenig | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Religion, Christian Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Talia Carner, Orthodox Jews, Harpecollinsr, Jerusalem Maiden, Books News

Novelists' works are often inspired by the need to expose certain society failings and like Esther in Jerusalem Maiden, author Talia Carner's grandmother was not allowed to develop her artistic talent.

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Old Time Religion and the Full Time Rick Perry-Style Hypocrites

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.19.2011

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According to governor Rick Perry of Texas what America needs is prayer. We need to pray in order to restore our moral direction.

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WATCH: The 'Soldiers' Inside The Mitzvah Tank

nytimes.com | GABE JOHNSON and TAMIR ELTERMAN | Posted 06.28.2011

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"We go out there like soldiers, with a mission to conquer the world with light, with goodness, with kindness," said Yishai Eliefja, 23, a Hasidic Jew ...

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Anorexia and The New Values of Courtship

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Eating Disorders, Body Image, Anorexia, Orthodox Jews, Orthodox Judaism, Religion News

The crisis in orthodoxy today is the practice of Jewish ritual to the exclusion of Jewish values. And in no area is this more evident then in the increasingly shallow dating values that are betraying our community.

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NYC Gallery's 'Pornucopia' Exhibition Angers Orthodox Jews

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK--A current exhibition at the Lower East Side's Allegra LaViola Gallery has drawn fiery opposition from some unlikely art critics: Orthodox Je...

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New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 2

David Serchuk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apartments, Brooklyn, Orthodox Jews, Park Slope, Real Estate, Bay Ridge, New York City, Sunset Park, New York News

Sunset Park is one or two subway stops further away from Manhattan than Park Slope, so it's gentrifying accordingly. It is a less pretentious area, but, then again, it has less to be pretentious about.

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Dutch Jews Want 'Fast Justice' For Anti-Semitism

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.25.2011

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AMSTERDAM — Jewish groups in the Netherlands called Wednesday for swifter punishment for Holocaust deniers as parliament debated how to combat r...

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