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Do religious Jews have a right to reject basic secular education?

Jonathan S. Tobin - JNS.org — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:21:13 +0000

After more than a century of biased reporting about Israel, contempt for Zionism, and a lack of interest in reporting about anti-Semitism, readers are right to regard any coverage of the Jewish community by The New York Times with scepticism, if not justified suspicion, of ill intentions. So, after the Times invested a year of […]

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What’s so special about Chassidim?

Rabbi Raymond Apple — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 06:36:17 +0000

Ask the rabbi...

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Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ degrades Chassidic Jews into caricatures

Fri, 01 May 2020 03:16:54 +0000

Leah Aharoni: This supposedly romantic story of a young woman running away from the tyranny of a Chassidic “cult” is just another play-out of the secular Jewish aspiration to break with thousands of years of Jewish tradition.

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