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German airline Lufthansa said Thursday that it has reached a settlement with most members of a group of Orthodox Jewish passengers who weren’t allowed to board a flight in Frankfurt earlier this year after some had refused to wear masks

One of Israel’s most extremist politicians, known for his inflammatory anti-Arab speeches and stunts, is attracting new supporters from a previously untapped demographic.

Violent scuffles between Jewish and Palestinian groups erupted inside the Old City before the parade began.

Violent scuffles between Jewish and Palestinian groups erupted inside the Old City before the parade began.

Thousands of Israeli nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs,” paraded through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in a show of force that risked setting off a new wave of violence in the tense city. The crowds, who were overwhelmingly young Orthodox Jewish men, were celebrating Jerusalem Day -- an Israeli holiday that marks the capture of the Old City in the 1967 Mideast war. Palestinians see the event, which passes through the heart of the Muslim Quarter, as a provocation.

Orthodox Jews accuse Germany's Lufthansa airline of 'antisemitic discrimination' after mass banning from connecting flight in mask row, Hamodia reported.

Police in Lakewood, New Jersey, are investigating a snowplow driver who appears on video to deliberately spray two Orthodox Jewish men with snow, officials say.

For a particular group of Jews, art is typically a form of decor, not commentary. But a new generation of artists is trying to make nonconformist pieces while remaining observant.

The march posed a test for Israel's fragile new government as well as the tenuous truce that ended last month's 11-day war between Israel and Hamas.

Dozens of Holocaust survivors attended a live concert at an Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn in the first large gathering for New York-area survivors after months of being isolated during the coronavirus pandemic.

Orthodox Jewish men give their wives a ‘get’ as the couple is divorcing, which seals the divorce according to religious law City Council candidate Amber Adler, lefr, with Chava Herman Sharabani, who is fighting to get a ‘get’. Photograph: Jordan and Anna Rathkopf On Route 59 in Monsey, New York, an Orthodox Jewish enclave in upstate New York, there is a large billboard that says in big block letters: “Dovid Wasserman. Give your wife a get!” A “get” is a document Orthodox Jewish men give their wi

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Guns, suspected explosives and substantial amounts of drugs were found this month after a narcotics investigation brought detectives to an office suite Alysheba Way in the Hamburg area, according to court records.

Malaysia has procured more vaccines and aims to accelerate inoculations starting next month, a Cabinet minister said Thursday, as the government struggles to contain a worsening coronavirus crisis. Science Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the government has bought an additional 12.8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, bringing the total to 44.8 million doses, enough to cover 70% of Malaysia’s population. Khairy said the vaccines will be delivered over the next few months, allowing the government to increase inoculations to 150,000 a day starting in June.

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When Covid-19 hit New York’s close-knit ultra-orthodox Jewish community last year it barrelled through it like a tornado. Rabbis began dying, elders fell seriously sick, and within weeks half the insular population had already been infected. But the pandemic had a much more unpredictable impact too. With national lockdowns and school closures the traditional Haredi way of life was interrupted, giving many the space for questioning and self-discovery. That led some to do the unthinkable: consider leaving and starting a life outside the community. “I’ve been thinking about it for a while,” said 18-year-old Aryeh, who asked to use a pseudonym as he has not yet left. “But last spring I decided I was definitely going to do it.”

An Orthodox Jewish congregation has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Houston in hopes of preventing the city from enforcing a deed restriction that could put an end to services at the congregation’s current location.

Three sisters — Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper — have accused Leifer of abusing them while they were students at a Melbourne ultra-Orthodox school. But now, 12 long years after she fled Australia, Leifer is on her way back to face her accusers in court,” he said in a statement. Israel has extradition treaties with Europe and nine other countries, including the U.S. and Australia, and routinely extradites citizens accused of serious crimes. Leifer’s lawyers have said they will request she serve any prison sentence in Israel, in line with Israeli law. Malka Leifer’s victims will finally earn an act of justice.”

While the appeal was pending at the Supreme Court, Cuomo lifted restrictions in Brooklyn’s orange areas. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, a conservative, said in a separate opinion that Wednesday’s order was limited to unusually strict restrictions on houses of worship. But the New York restrictions on houses of worship are not tailored to the circumstances given the 1st Amendment interests at stake,” Kavanaugh wrote. Appeals court Judge Michael H. Park, nominated by President Trump, dissented, saying the restrictions discriminated against churches and synagogues. He said the pandemic had led to “previously unimagined restrictions on individual liberty,” adding: “Religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right.”

In the last three years, the Department of Justice has worked to protect the rights of the Jewish community, and of all faith communities, through a variety of initiatives and engagements. In addition to those set out in today’s remarks at the State Department conference, those include the following:Summit on Combating Anti-SemitismOn July 15, 2019, at its headquarters, the Department of Justice held a Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism. During the spring of 2020, United States Attorneys across the country met with Jewish clergy, local non-profits, and branches of national Jewish organizations. U.S. v. Nolan Brewer—The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana charged the defendant for conspiring to attack an Indiana synagogue. As Deputy Attorney General Rosen stated in his remarks at today’s conference, “the United States Department of Justice stands firmly and unequivocally against anti-Semitism.

“He served as a bridge in a broader sense,″ said Chaya Spitz, a protege of Pinter's and CEO of an umbrella organization for Orthodox Jewish charities. For instance, students aren’t taught about human reproduction because the Orthodox community believes the topic is one best handled at home. While some in his Jewish community considered him a dangerous modernist, many in the broader society saw him as a crazy extremist, Cohen said. After seeing the situation for himself, Pinter went back to London and raised 5,000 pounds ($6,500) for the migrants. “When he died I thought, ‘That’s Rabbi Pinter, at least he could look at his wife and say that he did his homework,’″ Glasman said.

ALBANY, N.Y. – A federal judge refused Friday to block New York’s plan to temporarily limit the size of religious gatherings in COVID-19 hot spots. U.S. District Judge Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling after an emergency hearing in a lawsuit brought by rabbis and synagogues, arguing the restrictions were unconstitutional. The restrictions apply in six designated areas in parts of New York City, Rockland and Orange counties, and part of Binghamton. In their lawsuit, rabbis, leaders of synagogues and the national Orthodox Jewish group Agudath Israel had argued that Gov. Authorities didn’t confirm there would be an arrest, saying only they were still investigating the confrontation involving Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for Jewish Insider who has documented the handling of the coronavirus outbreak in Orthodox Jewish communities.

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community speak with NYPD officers on a street corner, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Many neighborhoods that stand to be affected are home to large enclaves of Orthodox Jews. New restrictions in places where coronavirus cases are rising, including several Orthodox areas, led to street protests Tuesday night. Friedman said he hoped the government would understand that Orthodox Jews are not “gathering careless of the pandemic,” but rather returning to cherished customs of communal prayer, celebration and mourning. The Agudath Israel-led lawsuit says the state's new limits “make it impossible for Orthodox Jews to comply with both their religious obligations and the order” imposing restrictions.

Members of the Orthodox Jewish community wait for school busses to collect them in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. All nonessential businesses in areas designated “red zones” in parts of Queens and Brooklyn by Gov. Parents at one Brooklyn school protested that their school had been shut by the city even though it lay outside the area the governor had designated for school closures. In Borough Park, hundreds of men took to the streets Wednesday to protest restrictions for a second night. Overall, the coronavirus has been spreading at a slower rate in New York City than in much of the rest of the country.

Andrew Cuomo warned Tuesday of growing coronavirus clusters in large Orthodox Jewish communities around New York City that he worries could spread uncontrollably if they aren't quickly contained. "The activity in the cluster is very different than what's going on in the rest of the state," Cuomo said during a press briefing in New York City. "These hot spots are five times that number," he said of the positivity rate. Many of the reported clusters are in ZIP codes that "overlap" with large Orthodox Jewish communities, he said. Correction: At least one New York ZIP code has a positivity rate of about 20%.

COVID's spread focused again in Orthodox Jewish communities as principals vote no-confidence in Mayor Bill de Blasio after school opening delays.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday a funeral for an ultra-Orthodox rabbi that drew thousands of mourners in Brooklyn "was absolutely unacceptable," and he warned that police will start issuing summonses or arrest violators at similar gatherings. Police didn't issue any citations at Tuesday night's funeral for Rabbi Chaim Mertz, but that will change, a police spokesperson said. Shea said "probably several thousand people" gathered on one block for the funeral, which was broken up by the NYPD. "That event last night never should have happened, it better not happen again," Shea warned. On Tuesday night, de Blasio sent police to Brooklyn where a massive crowd of people could be seen in the streets attending the funeral.

After five people were stabbed at a rabbi's home during a Hanukkah celebration over the weekend, the Jewish community in New York and around the United States is grappling with how to stem growing anti-Semitic violence. Andrew Cuomo called the attack Saturday night on a Hasidic Jewish community in Monsey, New York, "domestic terrorism" and directed state police to increase patrols in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods across the state. Kelsen has seen increased security over the past few years and said he imagines that the efforts will be doubled after a Hanukkah full of so much violence. Sasson said that her group is multiracial, as is the Jewish community at large, and that many Jewish people wouldn't feel safer with a greater police presence. While community leaders and members wrestle with long-term solutions, showing up for grieving community members is crucial in the short term.

A member of an Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, walks through the neighborhood on Yom Kippur, one of the most important holidays of the Jewish year. (CNN) - Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness. Yom Kippur services conclude with closing prayers and the blowing of the shofar, a ritual musical instrument carved from the horn of a ram. How it began: According to Jewish tradition, the origins of Yom Kippur date back to the time of Moses, after the people of Israel made their exodus from Egypt.