Three years ago, she started having flashbacks. Pearl Perri (who was born Penina Reich), now 34, had already survived her arranged marriage, fought a bitter custody battle for her four children, and left her strict Hasidic community in New Jersey.
DetailsIn a fiery speech at a recent event in Lakewood, businessman and noted philanthropist Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz derided a phenomenon which he called “a man-made and self-made problem” regarding education. He called out the schools and asked “do you think these children are stupid?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_QuIJVWak&ab_channel=thelakewoodscoop
DetailsThe Paris kosher supermarket where four hostages were killed in January by an Islamist gunman reopened on Sunday morning to “show that life is stronger than barbarity,” supermarket officials and France’s interior minister said.
She broke free from the iron-tight grip of her ultra-conservative Hasidic community — only to kill herself after years of struggling with that decision.
The top representative body of the Palestinians in the US condemned recent comments by the Jewish radio host Howard Stern as “racist” and “baseless.”
Aryeh Binyamin, the gabbai (administrator) of the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev, reacted sharply to the words of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Monday, after the latter called synagogue supporters “thugs” and “extremists.”
The OU Rabbinic Council has ruled, in accordance with Jewish Law, long-standing tradition, and what it calls the “broader context of Torah values,” that women cannot formally serve as Rabbis.
Every Friday morning for a month, rebbetzin Ariel Pardo has been meeting with three female Jewish students at Brandeis University for deep conversations that wind their way from Jewish ritual to intimacy.
Buenos Aires, Argentina – An Orthodox party has won an outright majority in elections for the leadership of the AMIA Jewish community center here, representing a power shift in local Jewish politics.
An Orthodox Jewish woman was flashed while she was on her Instagram livestream on Saturday night. The story went viral after a Jewish podcast Mislaibeled spoke about it on their Instagram, turning it into a joke. “Someone jumped onto Flatbush Girl’s [Instagram] live last night, just absolutely waving his shlong for the entire world to…
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