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Hasidic Jews Watch “Fiddler on the Roof” For the First Time

“Fiddler on the Roof” is a classic movie all about family, faith, and most importantly – tradition! It follows the footsteps and portrays the lives of families in the Orthodox Jewish community back in shtetl Russia. People always assume the movie is about Hasidim (even though it’s not) so we thought it would be funny […]

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The Wig-Wearing Orthodox HBO Producer

When most people think of celebrity chef and Orthodox Jewish All Star, Jamie Geller, the obvious image that springs to mind is an aproned, spatula-wielding author of several best-selling kosher cookbooks, and most notably, Joy of Kosher. However, Geller’s professional origin story begins not behind a counter, but behind a camera. As a child growing […]

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How I Became an Orthodox Jewish Environmentalist

When I grew up we always sorted trash: our trash, the synagogue’s trash, even the neighbors’ trash! This was the 1980’s – so not only did we sort trash, as these were the days before curbside pickup, we stored everyone’s recycling in our garage and brought it to the recycling center ourselves. We had recycling bins built […]

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Terror Victim, Dafna Meir, Saves Family and is Remembered as a Hero & Other Orthodox Jews in the News

Can Haredi Women Learn to Lean In? – Livia Levine, a management teacher at a Haredi women’s college discusses the cultural and religious norms that prevent (even the women in college studying management) from believing they can succeed in business Candy-Making Holocaust Survivor Believed to Be World’s Oldest Man – The Polish-born Auschwitz survivor, Yisrael Kristal, 112, achieved that […]

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Israeli TV Show “Shtisel” Provides a New Look into the Ultra-Orthodox World & Other Orthodox Jews in the News

Fundamentally Freund: The Stirring Revival of Sicily’s Bnei Anousim – “More than five centuries after the forced conversion to Catholicism of large numbers of Sicilian Jews, followed by the expulsion of the rest, a nascent rebirth is well underway, as growing numbers of Sicily’s Bnei Anousim (“Marranos”) now seek to embrace the heritage of their ancestors.” […]

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