Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox
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Israel’s Newest Army Recruits: the Ultra-Orthodox

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They weren’t supposed to fight. At Israel’s founding in 1948, the new nation’s leaders agreed that ultra-Orthodox men — known as the Haredim, or God-fearing, in Hebrew — would be spared from mandatory military service. In exchange, Haredi leaders lent their support for…

How Yehonatan Indursky Fled His Ultra-Orthodox Life — and Returned
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How Yehonatan Indursky Fled His Ultra-Orthodox Life — and Returned

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines This wasn’t yet a reconversion, only a crucial dalliance. But on Tinder, he met the woman who would become his wife, a French Jew who had recently moved to Israel and wished to become more observant. “In slow motion,” he said, she helped…

NYC masked man attempts to kidnap Hassidic Jewish boy from father in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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NYC masked man attempts to kidnap Hassidic Jewish boy from father in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

ByNews Polite

A horrifying video shows a masked man attempting to rip a six-year-old Hassidic Jewish boy out of the arms of his father in broad daylight as they walked down the sidewalk together Saturday. The boy’s father was holding hands and walking down the sidewalk with his two sons at around…