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US / Antisemitism

Justice Department Reaches Agreement with New Jersey Town after Accusations of Religious Zoning Bias

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Toms River, which was accused of placing unreasonable burdens on its growing Orthodox population, will modify its zoning code to reduce the “minimum acreage” for a house of worship from 10 acres to two.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Lakewood Man Loses Bid to Change Guilty Plea in $200 Million Ponzi Scheme

By JNi.Media

Between February and March of 2012 the two "Facebook victims" wired millions of dollars to an account set up by Weinstein and a co-conspirator.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Scaring Us Straight

By Harry Maryles

If not scared by God be scared by man; Hopefully ethics will integrate into lives for proper reasons

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / US / News Briefs

Funeral Begins from Lakewood Yeshiva Student Aaron Sofer

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Sofer, who may have died from dehydration after falling in a ravine while hiking, is being buried in Beit Shemesh.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Reason These Boys Were Kidnapped Is...

By Harry Maryles

Looking for a spiritual cause of a tragedy is a time honored tradition in Judaism.

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Wrong Stuff - Focusing on Minutiae

By Harry Maryles

It seems like now more than ever Frumkeit has replaced sincerity as the primary focus of the right.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Extremism in Defense of Tznius

By Harry Maryles

One measure for living a "normal" life is Halacha, and the other is societal standards.

NY / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism

FBI Arrests NY Rabbis for Beating Husbands Who Refuse Divorce

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Many Jewish women suffer as “agunahs,” unable to re-marry because their husbands refuse them divorces. Four Jews, two of them rabbis, allegedly took the law into their hands and beat husbands until they agreed.

US / News Briefs

Fox that Attacked Lakewood Girl Infected with Rabies

By Jewish Press News Desk

New Jersey officials have confirmed that the fox that attack a four-year-old Lakewood girl last week had rabies, but the family already was set decided not to take any chances and began a series of injections against the disease. “Foxes are normally afraid and shy of people and its behavior, attacking someone without provocation, certainly […]

Jewish / US / News Briefs

Fox Shot Dead after Attacking 4-Year-old Girl in Lakewood

By Jewish Press News Desk

A fox attacked a four-year-old girl in Lakewood, New Jersey on Saturday and later was shot dead when it tried to attack a policeman and an animal control officer who were called to the scene. The dead fox is being tested for the rabies, and the girl suffered light scratched on her arm, leg and […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

The Kolko Case: A Stain on Lakewood

By Harry Maryles

We are a people whose mandate is Torah observance in all matters - between man and God as well as between man and his fellow man.

Emes Ve-Emunah

Lakewood’s $10 Million Coup

By Harry Maryles

I, of course, have no problem with such a library. But is this what the State of New Jersey had in mind in approving $10 million dollars to Lakewood?

Emes Ve-Emunah

Merging the Orthodox Streams

By Harry Maryles

Imagine a Moetzes that included a broader spectrum of rabbinic leaders. And a population of educated Jews that can make a decent living in all fields – including the field of Torah study.

Felafel on Rye

Why Help Build America When We Can Help Build the Land of the Jews?

By Tzvi Fishman

It is no secret that American Jewry is being decimated by assimilation. The longer the Jewish community remains in America the more the assimilation will grow. So I ask – what’s the point in working to strengthen something that is destined to dwindle out and end? The exile is a curse which is not supposed to continue forever.

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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