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Washington Jewish Week     Update from previous post Rabbi Chaim Herzel Kranz confirmed that Friedman had prayed there "for a few days,...

Haaretz A Haredi-owned Jerusalem restaurant will be restricting the working hours of waitresses in order to receive the strict mehadrin k...

NYTimes Turning the tables on an advocacy group that has long supported victims of pedophile priests, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Churc...

haaretz The Haifa Magistrate's Court on Sunday sentenced a pediatrician who distributed pedophiliac images on the Internet to an 18-m...

A Bochur in the Mir writes: The provocatzia hasn't ended? Tonight I had the unfortunate but enlightening experience to watch ...

  Rabbi Eliyahu Falk writes in the supplement to his book on Modesy page 38. It should be noted that in the merit of mesiras nefesh for Tzn...

Haaretz Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans is trying to get me to repent and become religious. To this end, for the past four months he has been spendin...

Time Anonymous has turned its attentions from corporations to pedophiles with the news that the hacktivist group has taken down multiple ch...

Haaretz The Israel Prison Service plans to test a treatment program for prisoners convicted of political corruption, according to the head ...

NYTimes  Updating this post Prosecutors are investigating the death of a newborn boy who died in September after contracting herpes throu...

  PURIM61.htm  Rav Kook then quoted the Talmudic statement in  Sanhedrin  99b that Timna wanted to marry into the family of ...

USA Today  Foreigners convicted of sexually abusing children in Moldova will be mandatorily castrated, according to new legislation introdu...

NYTimes From sundown on Friday until the sun sets on Saturday, many observant Jews refrain from certain activities, including pushing ele...

"These are for the benefit of the public - it is proper to clean one's ears prior to hearing Parshos Zachor"