Sex Abuse Allegations in Orthodox Jewish Community
Is it completely overblown, as rabbis say, or an "open secret" in the community? NPR's Barbara Bradley Haggerty has been looking into allegations of child sex abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities in...
View ArticleHotel For Orthodox Jews: Yes to Yiddish, No to TVs
There's a Brooklyn hotel boom underway, according to the Daily News -- with four times as many rooms today as there were five years ago -- and that includes hyper-specialized hotels, like the new,...
View ArticleUltra-Orthodox Jews Protest Girls' School in Israeli Town
Angry protests by ultra-orthodox Jews in the Israeli town Beit Shemesh are the latest episode in a history of contentious relations between Israel's secular majority and the small, but powerful...
View ArticleCapacity Crowds of Jewish Worshippers to Gather at MetLife Stadium
A crowd of 90,000 Jewish worshipers is expected to fill MetLife stadium in New Jersey Wednesday night as part of Siyum Hashas. It’s an event that culminates the seven and a half year process of...
View ArticleOrthodox Jews and the Web
NY1 political reporter Josh Robindelves into his series,“Tangled Web,” which looks at how orthodox Jews are dealing with the internet.
View ArticleHerman Wouk Bucks Literary Trends to Produce Best-Selling Novels
Herman Wouk, appearing in this 1955 Books and Authors Luncheon, contests what he perceives as the common view of his being "a conformist." Smarting, perhaps, from the highbrow literary world's disdain...
View ArticleMen Studying to Become Rabbis Can Now Get Financial Aid
As students get ready to go back to college later this month, men studying become rabbis at private undergraduate yeshivas can now qualify for aid under New York's Tuition Assistance Program, or...
View ArticleRabbis Accused of Kidnap and Torture
Oren Yaniv, reporter for the New York Daily News, talks about last week's news that two local rabbis were accused in Federal Court of accepting large sums of money to torture men into providing their...
View ArticleBrooklyn Fire Kills Seven Children From Same Orthodox Family
Seven children died early Saturday morning when a fire tore through their Brooklyn home. The children, aged 5 to 16, were from the same family.New York City Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said a...
View ArticleEast Ramapo Gets a Monitor
New York State education commissioner MaryEllen Elia recently appointed Dennis Walcott, former chancellor of New York City schools, to monitor the troubled East Ramapo school district. They talk about...
View ArticleFrom Conversion Therapy to a Rainbow Yarmulke
When Chaim Levin first met Benjy Unger almost 10 years ago, Chaim immediately wanted to be friends. "He was like one of those bros from high school that was just so regular and nobody would guess that...
View ArticleInflux of Orthodox Jews in Lakewood Causing Growth, and Conflict
The Ocean County town of Lakewood is New Jersey’s fastest-growing municipality, thanks to a soaring number of Orthodox Jews who have moved there from New York. Located about 10 miles from the shore,...
View ArticleMeasles Breaks Out in New York and New Jersey
Public health officials are scrambling to contain measles outbreaks in at least three areas of New York and New Jersey.The largest outbreak has occurred in Rockland County, New York, where 53 cases...
View ArticleFederal Judge Says East Ramapo Must Change How It Elects Its School Board
The East Ramapo School Board in Rockland County has been at the center of a political controversy for more than a decade, but that may soon change. Since 2005, elected board has been dominated by...
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