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News Round Up – Thurs. 8/11/11

News Round Up – Thurs. 8/11/11

By Unpious.com Staff Writer

August 11, 2011 / 1 comment

Challah for thugs, arrested hikers and fire hazards in this week's News Round Up.
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Tags: arrest, challah, hikers, Iran, Kiryas Joel, London, New Square, riots
Posted in News & Media

The Vertle: Victim

The Vertle: Victim

By Unpious.com Staff Writer

June 7, 2011 / Add Comment

Check out the word clouds on this week’s Vertle: “Victim” from Vos Iz Neias and JTA.
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Tags: New Square, Rosenberg
Posted in Briefly Noted, News & Media

It’s All Kosher (No. 1): Trapped in New Square

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It’s All Kosher (No. 1): Trapped in New Square

By The Unpious Posek

June 5, 2011 / 48 comments

A young woman who is desperate to leave New Square asks the Unpious Posek for advice.
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Tags: community, family, loneliness, New Square, teenagers
Posted in Essays, Family, Off the Derech, Opinion, The Unpious Posek, Topics

Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace

By Shulem Deen

June 8, 2010 / 42 comments

Rievi and I sit on rocks near the shallow stream as the water cascades over tangles of rocks, branches, and fallen tree trunks. It is now only Rievi and I, and I cherish each moment.
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Tags: children, community, divorce, family, fathers, hiking, New Square, relationships
Posted in Essays, Family, First Person, Off the Derech, Topics

News Roundup – Thurs. 4/22

News Roundup – Thurs. 4/22

By Berl Blackman

April 22, 2010 / 13 comments

Our esteem for the inestimable Baruch Herzfeld, Williamsburg bike lane advocate and Hasid-Hipster peacemaker, shot up when we read of his penchant for merengue dancing, complete with an article in Tablet magazine showing him with a …


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Tags: accapella, Baruch Herzfeld, Ben Hirsch, exercise, graves, Isaac Breuer, Kal Holzcler, kohanim, merengue, Meron, music, Natan Lewin, New Square, Ohel, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, sefirah, sexual abuse, SOVRI, Survivors for Justice, Vicki Polin, Voices of Dignity, Williamsburg, Yeshiva World News
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News Roundup – Fri. 2/5

News Roundup – Fri. 2/5

By Berl Blackman

February 5, 2010 / 9 comments

The high priest is dead, and the nation mourns as the search for a new kohen gadol begins. The doors to the arei miklat, the cities of refuge, can now be opened. The deceased was High Priest Elazar …


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Tags: autopsy, car accidents, crime, high priest, Jerusalem, Kiryas Joel, Lubavitch, Mea Shearim, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, New Square, Samaritans, Sholom Rubashkin, ZAKA
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