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Controversy over Worksheet at Orthodox School in London
An Orthodox Jewish school in London has sparked furor after a worksheet for three year-old students described Nazis as “evil goyim.” An anonymous whisteblower sent a copy of the worksheet, written in...
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Does a New Documentary on the Ex-Orthodox Help or Harm Its Subjects?
The stories we, as Ex-Hasidim, tell after leaving the Hasidic community are often of extreme importance to us. They provide a narrative through which we can articulate the contradictions making up our...
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A Town Divided
A documentary that premiered in New York City this week at the DOC NYC film festival, captures the conflict and drama surrounding Kiryas Joel, a village occupying a square mile within the town of...
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New York’s Yiddish Press Is Thriving
Call it: A Tale of Two Hasidim. One of them, a man of about 20, stands at the entrance of a kosher supermarket riffling through the pages of Der Yid, the Satmar community’s Yiddish-language newspaper....
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Everybody Knows
The incidents now pass without much notice, a steady, familiar drumbeat of violence and hate targeting visibly Jewish people in New York City. Early on the morning of June 15, a Saturday, two men in a...
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