Haredi Orthodox

Ideas

A project that helps formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews find their place in the Jewish world

Project Makom has helped many like Nechama Schweitzer, who suffered through depression and an eating disorder as a member of a haredi community.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in NYC have risen significantly in 2019

Police said more than half of the 311 reported hate crimes have targeted Jews.

Orthodox UK rabbi said mulling bias lawsuit against his liberal congregation

Jonthan Guttentag of Manchester is portrayed as “old and out of touch,” and thus stereotyped in age discrimination, a source close to him told a local newspaper.

Ideas

What the Pew report got wrong about religious restrictions in Israel

Israel

Israeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz slammed for skipping handshake with teenage girl

United States

Kiryas Joel is now Palm Tree, the first official US haredi Orthodox town

Ideas

There is no religious excuse for not vaccinating your kids

Health

NYC warns about measles outbreak among Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn

Lifestyle

Study finds widespread history of sexual abuse among formerly Orthodox

Israel

El Al says haredi Orthodox men delayed flight by minutes, not an hour, for seat switches

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