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Suspicion Of Terror Attack As Israeli Rabbi Goes Missing In UAE
Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad, was last seen in Abu Dhabi.
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"Was Praying For My Life": 5 Stabbed At Rabbi's House In New York
An intruder stabbed and wounded five people at a rabbi's house in upstate New York during a party to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah late Saturday, officials said. The victims, all Hasidic members of the Jewish faith, were transported to local hospitals -- two in a critical condition -- the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) t...
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London School Removes 'Homosexual' Mentions From Textbook
A state-funded Orthodox Jewish girls school in north London has admitted to censoring sections of textbooks to remove mentions of homosexuals and examples of women socialising with men, to protect girls from sexualisation, the media reported.
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Russian Man Could Go To Prison For Saying God Does Not Exist
A man in the southern Russian city of Stavropol faces potential jail time for writing atheist comments on a website. In 2014, Viktor Krasnov, 38, posted on social media a message that equated the Bible to a "collection of Jewish fairytales." He is being prosecuted under a law that criminalizes speech deemed offensive to the beliefs of Russian Ortho...
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The Unorthodox Path Of A Ukrainian Jew In The 'New' Ukraine
Asher Cherkasskiy lived a modest life in peaceful southern Ukraine, observing Orthodox Jewish custom and putting his three children through religious school.
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7 Children Killed in New York Fire Tragedy Buried in Israel
Seven Orthodox Jewish children from the same family who died in a house fire in New York's borough of Brooklyn at the weekend were buried in Jerusalem today.
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Four Rabbis Indicted in New Jersey on Kidnapping Charges
Four Orthodox Jewish rabbis and one of their sons were indicted on Thursday on charges of kidnapping Jewish men and violently forcing them to grant divorces to their unhappy wives, New Jersey authorities said on Thursday.
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Israeli couples say 'I don't' to Orthodox Jewish weddings
Israeli law empowers only Orthodox rabbis to officiate at Jewish weddings, but popular opposition is growing to this restriction and to what some Israelis see as an Orthodox stranglehold on the most precious moments of their lives.
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Wives hired rabbis to kidnap, torture husbands: US prosecutors
A pair of Orthodox Jewish rabbis hired themselves out for years to unhappy wives who wanted their husbands kidnapped and beaten until they agreed to divorces, federal prosecutors in New Jersey said on Friday after arresting 10 men they said were involved in the scheme.
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New York City man arrested for hit-and-run crash that wiped out family
A New York City man with a lengthy criminal record surrendered to police on Wednesday, ending a manhunt for the driver who fled a hit-and-run car crash that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple and whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died, police said.
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Expectant parents die in New York crash; baby survives
A young Jewish Orthodox couple en route to a New York hospital to have their first child have been killed in a car crash, but their child has survived.
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New York Orthodox counselor gets 103 years for sex abuse
A respected religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced on Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who came to him with questions about her faith.
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Suspicion Of Terror Attack As Israeli Rabbi Goes Missing In UAE
Rabbi Zvi Kogan, an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish organisation Chabad, was last seen in Abu Dhabi.
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"Was Praying For My Life": 5 Stabbed At Rabbi's House In New York
An intruder stabbed and wounded five people at a rabbi's house in upstate New York during a party to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah late Saturday, officials said. The victims, all Hasidic members of the Jewish faith, were transported to local hospitals -- two in a critical condition -- the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) t...
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London School Removes 'Homosexual' Mentions From Textbook
A state-funded Orthodox Jewish girls school in north London has admitted to censoring sections of textbooks to remove mentions of homosexuals and examples of women socialising with men, to protect girls from sexualisation, the media reported.
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Russian Man Could Go To Prison For Saying God Does Not Exist
A man in the southern Russian city of Stavropol faces potential jail time for writing atheist comments on a website. In 2014, Viktor Krasnov, 38, posted on social media a message that equated the Bible to a "collection of Jewish fairytales." He is being prosecuted under a law that criminalizes speech deemed offensive to the beliefs of Russian Ortho...
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The Unorthodox Path Of A Ukrainian Jew In The 'New' Ukraine
Asher Cherkasskiy lived a modest life in peaceful southern Ukraine, observing Orthodox Jewish custom and putting his three children through religious school.
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7 Children Killed in New York Fire Tragedy Buried in Israel
Seven Orthodox Jewish children from the same family who died in a house fire in New York's borough of Brooklyn at the weekend were buried in Jerusalem today.
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Four Rabbis Indicted in New Jersey on Kidnapping Charges
Four Orthodox Jewish rabbis and one of their sons were indicted on Thursday on charges of kidnapping Jewish men and violently forcing them to grant divorces to their unhappy wives, New Jersey authorities said on Thursday.
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Israeli couples say 'I don't' to Orthodox Jewish weddings
Israeli law empowers only Orthodox rabbis to officiate at Jewish weddings, but popular opposition is growing to this restriction and to what some Israelis see as an Orthodox stranglehold on the most precious moments of their lives.
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Wives hired rabbis to kidnap, torture husbands: US prosecutors
A pair of Orthodox Jewish rabbis hired themselves out for years to unhappy wives who wanted their husbands kidnapped and beaten until they agreed to divorces, federal prosecutors in New Jersey said on Friday after arresting 10 men they said were involved in the scheme.
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New York City man arrested for hit-and-run crash that wiped out family
A New York City man with a lengthy criminal record surrendered to police on Wednesday, ending a manhunt for the driver who fled a hit-and-run car crash that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple and whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died, police said.
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Expectant parents die in New York crash; baby survives
A young Jewish Orthodox couple en route to a New York hospital to have their first child have been killed in a car crash, but their child has survived.
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New York Orthodox counselor gets 103 years for sex abuse
A respected religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community was sentenced on Tuesday to 103 years in prison for molesting a girl who came to him with questions about her faith.
