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לכבוד היארצייט של הרבי מסאטמאר - החסיד האמיתי שונא ישראל - אַ שוואַרץ יאָר

לכבוד היארצייט של הרבי מסאטמאר - החסיד האמיתי שונא ישראלתמונה אחת שווה מיליון מילות

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Of Batei Din, Girls Seminaries, Vulnerable People and the Internet, part 3

Guest post by RaPAn open letter to Jewish parents of daughters in North America: In recent months a very serious scandal has enveloped the popular practice of sending your daughters away to seminary in...

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Can You Hear Me Now? - Part 4 - Taking Judaism Back From The Con-Artists!

THE UOJ ARCHIVES - MARCH 2008We all have been there; the defining moment. If we are honest with ourselves, which is difficult and painful, we feel intuitively, in our soul, when that moment arrives....

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Can You Hear Me Now? - Part 5 - The State Of Our Disunion!

THE UOJ ARCHIVES JANUARY 2008: Background - Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., Case No.04cv268 - was tried in a bench trial from September 26, 2005 to November 4, 2005...

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18 Rules For Combat From The Wise Men of Chelm So That Your Enemies Will Die...

Op-Ed: Ceasefire? 18 Rules for Fighting a Gaza War Chelm-StyleChelm had nothing on us.Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on gmailShare on linkedinMore Sharing Services195Jack EngelhardJack...

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Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz zt"l - In Memoriam - His Yahrzeit - The Third...

Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was born in the town of Willig in Hungary in 1886 into a family of G-d-fearing Sanzer chassidim. At a young age -- when he was already studying Shulchan Oruch Yore De'ah...

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Of Batei Din, Girls Seminaries, Vulnerable People and the Internet, Part 4

Guest post by RaP An open letter to Jewish parents of daughters in North America, continued: Dear parents, at this point you may be thinking about where to send your daughter next year after she...

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WHEN RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE UNDERCUTS MANDATED REPORTING ON ABUSE!

THE UOJ ARCHIVES JUNE 1, 2011http://www.psychologicalhelp.org/http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/48483by Michael J. Salamon, Ph.D. The New York Times got it right. In an editorial published on...

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Recent allegations regarding improper behavior towards young women by Rabbi...

A Modest Year in Israel: When Young Women go to “Seminary”  Eighteen year-old girls in New York, London and Paris are packing their suitcases. Slightly worried that their suitcases are overweight, they...

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"ISIS is awful, but it is not a threat to America’s homeland"... The...

President Obama has been excoriated for declaring that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for effectively confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In criticizing Obama for taking too much...

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Running Out of Time? Israel’s Getting Stronger, Not Weaker

Doomsayers about the State of Israel never run out of material. Since the day it was born and even before that, skeptics about the Jewish state’s viability and long-term survival have been numerous and...

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"Here were the wages of blind faith and sexual repression; here was a case...

It’s a case study in how exploitation can flourish in different cultural contexts, and how insufficient any set of pieties can be to its restraint.Rape and RotherhamSEPT. 6, 2014THERE are enough grim...

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Of Batei Din, Girls Seminaries, Vulnerable People and the Internet, Part 5

Guest post by RaPAn open letter to Jewish parents of daughters in North America, more: Dear parents, like many people with seminary-age girls you must be very worried, anxious, puzzled, confused,...

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.....And in the beginning.....

An Anonymous Flier (Pashkevil) In Brooklyn By: Editorial Board Wednesday, February 22, 2006It was doubtless inadvertent, but the author of the flier makes our point. Thus, the flier recites that "this...

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“I worked for the guy 16 years,” he said on the phone. “He’s the most...

Bodenheimer's  Ramapo Police MugshotThis 'Holy Guy'—and Grandfather of 100—Is Accused of Sexually Abusing a StudentAn ultra-Orthodox elementary school principal has been accused of sexual abuse, but...

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“The ‘Them Vs. Us’ Shtetl Mentality Protects Sexual Predators:”

Child sex abuse: Why does the Jewish community tolerate it?We must shift our interest from protecting the reputations of abusers and their institutions to helping abused children and preventing...

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“SEXUAL ABUSE, SHONDA AND CONCEALMENT IN ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITIES,” by...

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“I see vaccinations as the problem,” Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky told the...

One of the country’s (most prominent?) ultra-Orthodox rabbis has condemned vaccines as a “hoax” in an interview with a local Jewish newspaper.“I see vaccinations as the problem,” Rabbi Shmuel...

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Of Batei Din, Girls Seminaries, Vulnerable People and the Internet, Part 6

Guest post by RaPAn urgent appeal to parents of frum girls in the English-speaking world:HOW  ATTENDING  SEMINARIES  IN  ISRAEL  BY  FRUM  GIRLS  CONTRIBUTES  TO  THEIR 'SHIDDUCH  CRISIS'  OR,  WHY...

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Hundreds at Event Against Abuse

A standing-room only crowd packed Lubavitch Yeshiva in Crown Heights for a powerful event Monday to combat child abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community.By COLlive reporterPhotos: Itzik RoytmanA...

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