Posts Tagged: Orthodox Jewish
Trump Picks New US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism
US President Donald Trump on Thursday tapped Yehuda Kaploun, an Orthodox Jewish businessman and rabbi, to serve as his administration's special envoy to monitor and...
Jewish Group Calls Out Illinois Congresswoman’s ‘Pejorative’ Use of ‘Orthodox’
JNS.org - The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (OU) criticized U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D-Ill.) "pejorative" use of the word "Orthodox" in remarks at the...
ADL Slams Brooklyn Mezuzah Torching as “Blatant Act of Anti-Semitism”
The Anti-Defamation League has condemned an act of arson in Brooklyn as a hate crime after a dozen Jewish residents of a Brooklyn apartment building...
Adam Lanza: Who is a School Shooter ?
This article is the second in a series comparing the attacks on Columbine and Sandy Hook. Read the first here. Shmuley Boteach, another Orthodox...
Matchmaking in Jewish Orthodoxy Needs Huge Fixing
If there is one area of orthodox Jewish life that is truly messed up and needs fixing it's matchmaking. In our communities we eschew the...
Towers of Babel and Urban Living
Mayor Bloomberg of New York has recently decided that New York is falling behind other cities in not erecting enough super skyscrapers. I recall a time...
British Court Rules in Orthodox Jewish Battle Over Children’s Education
In a legal battle over the education of their children, a British court has ruled in favor of the mother, who opposed her ex-husband's request...
The Possession, Drawing on Jewish Sources, is Hollywood’s Kabbalistic Version of The Exorcist (VIDEO)
By Atara Arbesfeld and Ezriel Gelbfish A Dybbuk is a mystical spirit that possesses the body of a living person according to Jewish folklore, and is...
Holocaust Museum With Focus on Orthodox Jews To Open In Brooklyn Next Spring
According to a UJA study conducted last year, 23 percent of Brooklyn's 2.4 million residents are Jewish, including an estimated 9,000 Holocaust survivors, the largest...
Dr. Phil, Shauli Grossman, Ex-Hassidim, and the True Path to Enlightenment
Writers and pundits of all ideological stripes have weighed in on the controversy surrounding the best-selling "expose" of the Hassidic world by Deborah Feldman and...
1st Degree Murder Charge in Killing of Leibby Kletzky
UPDATE: Friday morning, a spokesman in the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, confirmed that Levi Aron, the suspect in the murder and dismemberment of 8...
