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Shavuot: The Giving of the Torah
Four local rabbi discuss the holiday of Shavuot...
It's Not Just Porn: Why Ultra-Orthodox Jews Fear the Internet
At Citi Field Stadium this Sunday, 50,000 religious men gathered to discuss the dangers of the Web. An organizer explains why the digital era is so challenging for the people of the book.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Take a Hard Line on the Internet at Rally of 40,000 Men (And Me)
On Sunday, 40,000 mostly Hasidic Jewish men in black hats and black suits gathered at Citi Field for a series of speeches concerning the corrupting influence of the Internet, which were broadcast to the JumboTron betwixt oversized bottles of Cholula with a white cloth over the label, which shows a woman. The 7 train from Grand Central had become packed with men in black, all in a fine mood ...
The Fight Over Who Fights in Israel
A question of exemption from army service for the ultra-Orthodox has come to a boil.
All the Torah news fit to print
The first issue of Torah Tidbits - the weekly "parsha pamphlet" produced for the Anglo community by the Orthodox Union's Jerusalem center - appeared in 1992 in two Jerusalem synagogues. It was a single piece of paper with a dvar Torah on one side and announcements on the other.
Poll: Yeshiva youth eying job market
25%-30% of unmarried yeshiva students aged between 17 and 20 do not foresee devoting their futures to religious study, according to a poll commissioned by the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry.
Tal Law 2.0, like the first one but newer
Netanyahu may not need the Haredi parties for his coalition, but he is unlikely to propose mandatory conscription for yeshiva students.
Israeli Coalition Is About a Fair Draft, Not Iran
Israel’s newly expanded governing coalition may be more cautious about bombing Iran, and it may be marginally more open to serious negotiations with the Palestinians. But neither issue was the immediate reason the centrist Kadima party joined the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 8.
Stamford yeshiva founder dies at 89
Rabbi Simcha Schustal of Yeshiva Bais Binyomin of Stamford, died last week at the age of 89. Schustal was one of the founding fathers of the yeshiva and spent the last 36 years in Stamford.
For Jewish transsexual teaching at Yeshiva University, no easy path to being a daughter
In this excerpt from Joy Ladin's new book, the author writes of how the Torah aided her journey of sexual identification.
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