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Michael Greenberg, 23 Twitter: @MikeJGreenberg www.MakeSomeMiracles.com They are the Backstreet Boys of the Jewish world. Since their YouTube debut last December, the Maccabeats, an a cappella group of Yeshiva University students, have watched their hit single, “Candlelight,” go viral with 7 million YouTube hits, a performance for President Obama at the White House, and coverage […]

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Liana Rosenman, 20 Twitter: @theprojectheal Liana Rosenman was first diagnosed with an eating disorder when she was 12; it had begun, she remembers, around the time she started losing weight for her bat mitzvah. “People were commenting on how great I looked,” she said. “And then it just kind of spiraled out of control.” Rosenman […]

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I am writing regarding Rabbi Avi Shafran’s Opinion piece, “Measured Insularity Does Not A Monk Make” (May 11), which refuted the Opinion piece of Rabbi Eugene Korn on an element of haredi Judaism (“In The Name Of Judaism, Haredim Have Turned Inward,” April 13). Rabbi Shafran explained that haredi Judaism tries to avoid “the effluence […]

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