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The notion of 40,000 haredi and chasidic men coming out on a lovely Sunday evening to Citi Field — a sell-out crowd — not to watch a Mets game but to decry the evils of the Internet makes the attendees of this week’s rally an easy target for ridicule to many people. After all, the […]

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Judah Skoff, 32 www.judahskoff.com When Judah Skoff can get away from writing legal briefs, he works on his plays. Splitting time between a legal career — he works for the New Jersey-based firm McCarter & English — and one as a playwright, however, isn’t exactly new to him. “I’ve never done only writing,” Skoff said. […]

Rabbi Boruch B. Bender, 29 www.achiezer.org Five years ago, a member of the Far Rockaway Jewish community developed a minor infection. Her condition worsened in a nearby hospital. Rabbi Boruch Bender, a Far Rockaway resident who was teaching in a Brooklyn yeshiva and had earlier considered becoming a physician, used his contacts to arrange a […]

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