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With regard to Laura Berkowitz’s letter (“Protecting Kids,” May 11) about Yeshivat Noam’s response to the arrest of a teacher, two things appear clear. First, Berkowitz was unaware of how Yeshivat Noam acted. Second, if she had been aware, she would be commending the school. Yeshivat Noam alerted the parents shortly after it learned of […]

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It was deeply frustrating, though not surprising, to see The New York Times, in its high-profile coverage this past week of abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community, neglect to credit The Jewish Week — or The Forward — for taking the lead in reporting on these issues for years. Though the Times pledges to “deal with […]

The central character in the newest novel by Thane Rosenbaum — lawyer, law professor, author, moderator of an annual discussion series at the 92nd Street Y — is a 12-year-old daughter of divorced parents who shuttles between mother and father via the Brooklyn Bridge. The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, she learns about her grandmother’s […]

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