More than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews from around the world gathered in Jerusalem this week to tackle some of their communities’ darkest taboos: sexual abuse and domestic violence.
There was no science, no geography and no math beyond multiplication at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish school Chaim Weber attended. And the only time he ever heard of the American Revolution was when a seventh-grade teacher introduced it during “story time.”
On July 12, Faigy Mayer, a 30-year-old New Yorker who left Hasidic Judaism five years ago, sent one of her last messages to a close friend. She tried to explain how foreign the world was to her — even though she grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
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In bright pink paint, the words “Life is Beautiful” are splashed in graffiti on a wall in New York’s High Line, next to a young 30-year-old woman named Faigy Mayer brandishing a paint roller with a mischievous grin.
Quebec’s human rights commission is expected to release its report Thursday morning on how well the system handled child protection issues regarding the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that fled Quebec last year.
Recently we were exposed to yet more revelations regarding how the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community and in particular its leadership respond to allegations of child sexual abuse.
A lawsuit in New York City has local residents crying afoul over Jewish slaughter of fowl, decrying what they called the “barbaric” Yom Kippur tradition of kaparot in which chickens are thrown to their death in a symbolic act of atonement.
Brooklyn, NY – Police today were looking for a man who targeted the frum community in Brooklyn with a paint ball gun, in what is suspected to be a hate crime, CBS2 is reporting exclusively.
This isn’t the plot for a new primetime television show (though maybe it should be), it’s the story of how Orthodox Jews jumped way ahead of the curve and joined the national conversation about LGBT rights, religious freedom, and conversion therapy.