Hasidic leaders sharply limit members’ web, smartphone use …

| June 16, 2018

Community in Conflict: Hasidic Jews & Tech Part 2: Many Hasidic Jewish communities in New York and neighboring New Jersey forbid the use of smartphones, social media and technology. Why? The answer may come from a watershed moment in the Hasidic culture, where ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders held a summit in Citi Field to condemn technology

Insular Hasidic Jews struggle to preserve customs as legal …

| June 16, 2018

Community in Conflict: Hasidic Jews & Education Part 1: Some Americans may not realize that Hasidic Jews shun many common secular practices widely accepted across cultural and national borders, including the basics of education. For example, there are several yeshivas, or Hasidic Jewish schools, in the New York area that only teach subjects in Yiddish

Lipstadt: Polish PMs comments tantamount to Holocaust …

| June 16, 2018

When 60,000 Poles took to the streets of Warsaw last November brandishing signs with phrases like clean blood and White Europe streaked across them, it was perhaps a harbinger of events to come. Polish-Israeli relations kicked off to a rocky start in 2018 when the Polish government announced a bill that would make it illegal to accuse Poland of complicity in the Holocaust.



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