Beit Shemesh segregation signs removed
Jewish Journal
July 5, 2012
A sign calling for women to avoid using sidewalks in order to avoid contact with men was removed from a neighborhood in Beit Shemesh.
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haredi
Netanyahu disbands haredi draft committee
Jewish Journal
July 2, 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disbanded the committee charged with formulating a new law on haredi Orthodox military service.
Prosecutors drop charges in Brooklyn sex abuse case
Jewish Journal
June 27, 2012
Prosecutors dropped all charges against a group of men who were accused of sexually abusing a young Brooklyn haredi Orthodox woman for eight years.
Four haredi Orthodox men indicted in alleged sex abuse cover-up
Jewish Journal
June 25, 2012
Four haredi Orthodox men in Brooklyn were charged with attempting to intimidate and bribe an alleged sexual abuse victim and her boyfriend in a criminal case against a local counselor.
Hynes’ shift on sex abuse cases puts him on collision course with Agudah
Jewish Journal
May 29, 2012
Pressure is growing on the Brooklyn district attorney and the country’s major haredi Orthodox umbrella organization to change the ways they handle allegations of sexual abuse and molestation in the Orthodox community.
For haredi Orthodox, Internet threat harkens back to the Enlightenment
Jewish Journal
May 22, 2012
To the outside observer, the Charedi Orthodox anti-Internet rally at New York’s Citi Field may have looked uniform: a single mass of black hats, white shirts and brown beards.
Haredim fill N.Y. stadium to decry Internet’s dangers
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
The sellout crowd that filled the New York Mets’ Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the Mets’ blue and orange.
Haredim fill N.Y. baseball stadium to decry error of Internet’s ways
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2012
The sellout crowd that filled Citi Field on Sunday night wore black and white, not the New York Mets\’ blue and orange.
Haredi Orthodox burn Israeli flag in Antwerp
Jewish Journal
May 14, 2012
Dozens of haredi Orthodox schoolchildren participated in a Lag b\’Omer bonfire in Antwerp that featured the burning of an Israeli flag.
For new Israeli coalition, haredi army exemptions issue is front and center
Jewish Journal
May 9, 2012
Israel’s new unity government may not alter Jerusalem’s strategy for curbing Iran’s nuclear weapons program or do much to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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