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Chaptzem Blog!: After Sexual Abuse Case, a Hasidic Accuser Is Shunned, Then Indicted
Sam Kellner is a man twice shunned and living in a deepening shadow.Sam Kellner, 50, spoke out about the sexual abuse of his son, 16, and others in the Hasidic community. Now he is charged with trying to extort the abusers.Five years ago, this gray-bearde...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 6:00am -07:00T (70 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Chief rabbinate candidate attacked at wedding
Candidate for the chief rabbinate Rabbi David Stav was subject to physical and verbal intimidation Sunday night while attending the wedding of the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy places.Stav said that during the...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:15am -07:00T (66 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: 405 Construction Halts Use of Kosher Eruv in Westwood
Ongoing construction on the San Diego (405) Freeway in Westwood is not only disrupting traffic, it is causing some observant conservative Jews some aggravation this summer.The $1 billion-plus widening project is entering a new phase at the 405's Wilshire ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 6:15am -07:00T (58 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Petition pushes prison for accused Monsey drug dealer
Concerned about drug use in the Orthodox Jewish community, more than 130 people have signed a petition urging Rockland prosecutors to take a hard line against a Monsey man charged with selling drugs.The petition organized on the website change.org calls f...
Dateline: 2013-06-16 8:15am -07:00T (65 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Swastika scrawled on Toronto family's door
An Orthodox Jewish family in Toronto woke up this week to a swastika and the words “watch your children” scrawled on their garage door, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a news release Friday.The anti-Semitic vandals entered the family’...
Dateline: 2013-06-16 8:15am -07:00T (66 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Hasidic Women Sweat Over Lack of Female Lifeguard
Ultra-Orthodox women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, want to experience the joys of summer like everyone else. But that may not be possible this year, due to a lack of female lifeguards at the local Metropolitan Recreation Center pool. With al...
Dateline: 2013-06-14 7:00am -07:00T (81 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Did Satmars Bite Hand That Feeds Them With Anti-Israel Message at Draft Rally?
If you needed social services from New York's fervently pro-Israel mainstream Jewish community, would you organize a tremendous anti-Israel rally in its backyard?Despite assurances that it wasn't their intention to do so, that appears to be exactly what t...
Dateline: 2013-06-13 6:00am -07:00T (62 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Some Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg petition for Citi Bike
Hasidic Jews have a well-deserved reputation for shunning cycling — but one splinter group of the faithful is trying to change that reputation. A small group of Hasidic Jews has launched Hasidim For Bikes in response to a recent Daily News article t...
Dateline: 2013-06-13 6:00am -07:00T (72 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Presenting the 'Action Kippah'
LeBron James, your time is almost up.For years, Jewish athletes have been held back by several factors — Saturday games to name one. But the playing field to about to level off. Pretty soon, the list of "Famous Jewish Sports Legends" will be longer than...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 7:30am -07:00T (70 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Poor Heiress Pens Unorthodox Orthodox Memoir
Rokeby is an estate along the Hudson River that was built nearly 200 years ago by relatives of John Jacob Astor, America's first multimillionaire. About two dozen people currently live in various buildings spread out along the 400-plus acres of rolling...
Dateline: 2013-06-11 9:15am -07:00T (67 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Business advice — and kosher food — are on the menu at first New York biz conference for Hasidim
CEO roundtables. Social media marketing sessions. Afternoon prayers? Bring your black yarmulke and your business cards to what is being billed as the city's first-ever, large-scale business conference for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Organized by 34-year-ol...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 6:45am -07:00T (62 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Meeting held to promote ‘common ground’ with Hasidic community
On Parc Ave. in Mile End, there's a library housed in a former Anglican church. Next door to the library are a Greek cleaners and a Japanese sushi restaurant, and there's an Italian children's-wear shop across the street. In this multicultural setting,...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 6:45am -07:00T (70 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Chaya Fried walks 'crooked path' between ultra-Orthodox Judaism and secular life
For the first 18 years of her life, Chaya Fried kept her thoughts and feelings about religion mostly private, staying in line with her family's ultra-Orthodox traditions and following customs she had come to appreciate. ...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 6:45am -07:00T (96 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Israel Looks for Solutions to Its Ultra-Orthodox Men Problem
Israel's army is a subject of fascination to many Americans, primarily because they draft not only male civilians, but women as well. There's a group of Israelis though who, until recently, were actually exempt from conscription: ultra-Orthodox men and wo...
Dateline: 2013-06-09 11:30am -07:00T (62 words)
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Chaptzem Blog!: Anti-Israel Posters Boost N.Y.C. Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Draft Rally
Posters advertising a massive ultra-Orthodox rally scheduled for this Sunday in Manhattan employ highly inflammatory language against Israel and the Israeli army.“The evil rulers in the Holy Land want to incite and seduce young men and teenagers to acqu...
Dateline: 2013-06-09 11:30am -07:00T (63 words)
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