Posts Tagged: orthodox
Breaking the Ultra-Orthodox Control Over Israel
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate, backed by its ultra-Orthodox political factions, is negatively affecting the entire state of Israel. In previous generations, we were blessed with chief rabbis...
The New York Times’ Obsession With Female Jewish Modesty
Is the New York Times obsessed with tznius -- Jewish modesty? It sure looks like it. How else to explain the paper’s decision to devote column...
Former French President Sarkozy: We Did Not Fight Nazis to Force Jews to Run to Israel
"We did not fight the Nazis to force the Jews to run to Israel 70 years later," declared French President Nicolas Sarkozy before an awards...
Sports Illustrated Profiles Orthodox NCAA Basketball Player Aaron Liberman
Sports Illustrated magazine featured an extensive profile on Orthodox-Jewish college basketball player Aaron Liberman on Wednesday. The article details Liberman's efforts to balance faith, academics...
Jewish Pugilist Foreman Scores First Round Knockout Win, Continuing Stellar Comeback (VIDEO)
Jewish boxer Yuri Foreman scored a stunning first-round knockout victory Tuesday night at a bout in Hollywood, Florida, continuing a stellar comeback that has seen...
Exposing Child Predators Without Defaming the Innocent
One Orthodox Jewish website exposes people accused of sex crimes against children, such as rape, even when no criminal charges have been filed. They...
Orthodox Jewish Family Fights to Keep Daughter on Life Support
Daily Mail - An Orthodox Jewish family whose teenage daughter has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor is fighting to keep her...
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...
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...
Un-Orthodox Orthodox Art
Jacqueline Nicholls is a fine artist in her words "...who...
Study on Arranged Marriages Reveals that Orthodox Jews May Have it Right
For the past eight years, Robert Epstein, the Harvard-educated Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, has...
Loosening Anglo-Jewry’s Corset
Eleven years ago, I lived in the UK and, though I served primarily as rabbi to students at Oxford University, I gradually expanded the scope...
Shalom Rubashkin’s Universal Narrative
Yet again, the plight of Agriprocessors boss Shalom Rubashkin has been the subject of more media attention, as his attorneys argued an appeal before a...
Indentured Figures
"Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, howe er contented, never know." -William Cowper The New York Times ran a piece this week on the...
