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Accused sex abuser supported by Hasidic sect
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 months ago
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Jesse Ward for New York Daily News Nechemya Weberman served as a 'modesty committee' counselor to the accuser, who was 12 when she began sessions with her. Brooklyn's insular ultra-Orthodox community is scheduled to begin this week.
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Venice: 'Fill the Void' looks at Hasidic community
Venice :: Italy | 10 months ago
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Italy Israeli director Rama Burshtein provides an intimate look inside the private world of Tel Aviv's Hasidic community in the film, ''Fill the Void," which premiered this weekend in competition at the Venice Film Festival. A Hasidic Jew herself,
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Montreal borough votes to ban religious processions
Montreal :: Canada | 1 year ago
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Hasidic Jewish community of a wealthy Montreal borough and certain residents have gotten so bad that the council voted Monday to ban all parades and religious processions until June. The borough of Outremont, located in the centre of Montreal, said
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Outremont Easter procession cancelled due to district's conflict with Hasidic Jews
Montreal :: Canada | 1 year ago
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Video Video Video This marks the latest dispute between the expanding Hasidic community and its mostly secular neighbours in Outremont, a central borough in Montreal that's home to Quebec's intellectual and political class. The mayor and a majority
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A Montreal synagogue feels the sting of a neighbourhood’s animosity
Montreal :: Canada | almost 2 years ago
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One day this month, members of an ultra-orthodox Jewish congregation in Montreal threw open the doors of their small synagogue to invite neighbours in for a rare glimpse behind the curtain of their normally insular community. Amid the aging prayer
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Cold war over Schneerson Collection
Moscow :: Russia | 2 years ago
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A woman who was a cultural link for Russia and America even during the times of the Cold War has had her achievements marked in the US with the Liberty Award. Continuing the theme of Russian art heritage created outside the country, the exhibition
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Once upon a life: Deborah Feldman
New York City :: NY :: USA | almost 3 years ago
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So what happened when, in her twenties, she renounced her religion? Deborah Feldman I grew up in the black-and-white section of Brooklyn, New York. The men in my family wore black hats, black coats and white shirts, they studied black-and-white books
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Jessica Pilot: Ex-Hasid Pokes Holes in Holy Rollers
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 years ago
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Jewish" is the simple advice offered to him before boarding a plane with a suitcase full of ecstasy. Using religious identifiers as camouflage is a concept Twersky can relate to. Though he left his wife and two children along with the rest of the
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