Jews Met With Slurs, Egg Throwing, As Monsey Orthodox Community Spreads To Airmont

The charedi influx has led to friction with longtime residents, escalating over the construction of an eruv.

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Moishe House Goes ‘Off The Derech’

The peer-led organization, formerly geared towards secular Jews, now focusing on those leaving the ultra-Orthodox community.

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Jerry Lewis Has Died At 91

The comedian and filmmaker, star of ‘The Nutty Professor,’ died Sunday morning at his home in Las Vegas.

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New push to get millennial ‘influencers’ to spur their personal growth and help change the country’s image.

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Jewish Camp Transforms ‘Hamilton’ Into Israeli History Lesson

Ramah version of Tony award-winning play trades in American founding father for Zionist leaders, Hebrew rapping included

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Despite Pushback, Zioness Movement Roars On

At first event, proudly progressive, pro-Israel movement is harassed, but not deterred.

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The New ‘Contextualization’

If Charlottesville — and Barcelona — offer any lesson to the traveler, it is that artifacts must be considered in the context of both their own historical provenance and what came afterward.

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Closing A Chapter On ‘Open Orthodoxy’

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Trump’s Moral Equivalence Trap

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‘The religious community only started caring once we started dying.’

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Charlottesville: A Personal and Historical Reflection

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I grew up as an Orthodox Jewish boy born in 1947 in Newport News, Virginia. I was aware from my earliest years that Newport News had welcomed my immigrant grandparents and their children from the ravages of Eastern Europe...

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From Hungary, A Lesson in Building Community

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For Jews, the history of Budapest is a tale of two cities – one majestic, the other tragic. The city’s beauty was on full display when I visited earlier this month. The buildings look like wedding cakes, built when...

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Teens Who Twisted Menorah Into Swastika Ordered To Meet With Holocaust Survivor

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Three teens pleaded guilty to criminal damaging charges for twisting a large decorative menorah in the front yard of an Arizona family’s home into a swastika. The teens, who were arrested in March and charged as juveniles in the December incident...

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Arthur Finkelstein, Political Strategist For Nixon And Netanyahu, Dies

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Arthur Finkelstein, a Republican political strategist who helped elect presidents, senators and two Israeli prime ministers, has died. Finkelstein died Friday at his home in Ipswich, Massachusetts, of lung cancer. He was 72. “Arthur, as everyone who has worked with him...

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Stephen Bannon Reportedly ‘Going To War’ Against Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner

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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon reportedly is “going to war” against several White House targets, including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, according to reports. A report Sunday evening in Vanity Fair titled “Steve Bannon Readies His Revenge: The war on...

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Jews Met With Slurs, Egg Throwing, As Monsey Orthodox Community Spreads To Airmont

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AIRMONT, N.Y. (JTA) — When Moshe Pinkasovits walks with his kids down the street on Saturdays in his new town, he has to watch out for drivers shouting anti-Semitic slurs. The Pinkasovits family didn’t face this problem in the neighboring...

By Ben Sales

August 21, 2017
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Jerry Lewis Has Died At 91

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Comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis, known for his work with singer-actor Dean Martin and his four decades of hosting the Muscular Dystrophy telethon, has died. Lewis, best known for his starring role in “The Nutty Professor,” died Sunday morning at...

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