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Teaching Modern Orthodox community about social justice.
The Jewish Week
Rabbi Weiss, executive director of the Uri L'Tzedek Orthodox social justice organization, suggested that the owner join Uri L'Tzedek's Tav HaYosher “ethical seal” program. The rabbi explained the requirements: fair pay, fair working hours, ...

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FAITH & VALUES: Israeli PM urges 'just' replacement of draft law
North County Times
With a July 31 deadline looming, the committee must find a compromise palatable to both to secular and modern Orthodox religious parties, whose followers serve in the military, and to ultra-Orthodox coalition partners, who claim their loyalists are ...


 
Leading Ultra-Orthodox Group, Agudath Israel, Insists Abuse Claims Go To ...
Huffington Post
In contrast, Modern Orthodox rabbis now hold that in cases of child sexual abuse, mesirah does not obligate an alleged victim to obtain permission from a rabbi before going to police. More recently, the Crown Heights Rabbinical Board, a Brooklyn branch ...

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Simi Lampert, Standing up for journalism.
The Jewish Week
The story Simi Lampert chose to publish in The Beacon, an online publication for and by Modern Orthodox college students — about a Modern Orthodox woman's premarital tryst in a New York hotel room — bounded past the Jewish media and made it all the ...

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Israeli PM urges 'just' replacement of draft law
Fox News
With a July 31 deadline looming, the committee must find a compromise palatable to both to secular and modern Orthodox religious parties, whose followers serve in the military, and to ultra-Orthodox coalition partners, who claim their loyalists are ...

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USA TODAY
Ultra-Orthodox hold large NYC meeting on Net risks
Atlanta Journal Constitution
AP NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way. In this photo provided by ...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews plan huge NYC meeting on Internet risksUSA TODAY
The Religious Fanatics Who Want to Protect Men From Women OnlineJezebel

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Wired News
Orthodox Jews Rally to Keep the Internet Kosher
Wired News
... men from New York's Orthodox Jewish community to an anti-internet rally Sunday at Citi Field to protest the “scourge of the internet,” the latest skirmish in the seemingly never-ending battle to keep the unclean horrors of the modern world at bay.
Why Ultra-Orthodox Jews Fear the InternetThe Atlantic
Against the future: inside the Jewish anti-internet rallyThe Verge
What Religious Jews Fear About the InternetFirst Things (blog)

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