U.S. Anti-Semitic Incidents Spike 86 Percent So Far in …

| September 26, 2017

In 2016, there was a 34 percent year-over-year increase in incidents assaults, vandalism, and harassment with a total of 1,266 acts targeting Jews and Jewish institutions. Nearly 30 percent of these incidents (369) occurred in November and December

Hasidic Jews and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism – ThoughtCo

| September 26, 2017

by Lisa Katz Updated September 20, 2017 In general, Orthodox Jews are followers who believe in a fairly strict observance of the rules and teachings of the Torah, as compared to the more liberal practices of members of modern Reform Judaism. Within the group known as Orthodox Jews, however, there are degrees of conservatism



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