Posts Tagged ‘ discrimination ’

A world without Orthodox Jews, God as a comedia, and more, in this week's comments selection.
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A member of Jerusalem's "Sikrikim" gang gets beaten, B110 bus company promises to stop discrimination, Chabad scares off a Russian sailing vessel from docking at a U.S. port, and more.


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Will the outrage over sex-segregated buses effect change? Not until Hasidic women begin to speak out about it.
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As a teenager I read an article in Cosmo about how guys with stubble like the red they can bring to a woman’s cheeks during kissing: It’s a she’s-so-tender-I’m-so-tough type of thing. The first time I saw a Chasid, his beard looked vaguely terrifying. I’ve always hated beards, macho like my Dad’s, like Hulk...
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They come, they clean, they leave. Occasionally they’ll be given a few Ostreicher’s chocolate chip cookies and some apple juice in a plastic cup. (“Chas v’shulem, not from my dishes!”) But here’s the human side (and a bit…

Yeshiva boys turning into druglords; a new book advises that attacks on non-Jews will "curb their evil inclination;" a $3 million lawsuit over a beard; and a tefillin bomb-scare causes an emergency landing.
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