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Defends Yeshivat Noam

As a parent with children at Yeshivat Noam, I found Hella Winston’s coverage of the arrest of a Yeshivat Noam teacher very upsetting (“After Arrest Of Teacher, Questions About Vetting,” May 11). Yeshivat Noam has been a leader in addressing the issue of child safety. I attended a presentation for parents last year at the […]

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Roman Shmulenson, Creating a community of disparate émigrés.

Roman Shmulenson, 34 Part of a Ukrainian-Jewish family that came to the U.S. in 1993, Roman Shmulenson made his first meaningful contact with the Jewish community while studying at a Brooklyn high school the next year. A social worker from the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services who met with émigré teens arranged a […]

Alicia Jo Rabins, Art-rocking the women of the Bible.

Alicia Jo Rabins, 34 Twitter: @ohaliciajo, @girlsintrouble www.girlsintroublemusic.com Growing up, Alicia Jo Rabins never gave much thought to Jewish tradition. She was raised secular, in a mostly non-Jewish section of Baltimore. “It was not a huge part of my life,” she said of Judaism in her youth. Her passion was for poetry, and as a […]

Yehuda Kurtzer, Elevating the conversation.

Could A Haredi Draft Help Israel’s Economy?

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Culture As Sewage

Michelle Sarna, Empowering Orthodox women.

Avram Mlotek, Going back to the future.

Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, Illuminating Mizrachi history

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