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A sign warns people of measles in the Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Williamsburg, which has a large Orthodox population, has been experiencing a measles outbreak since last year that has infected 588 people in New York City.
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A sign warns of measles in the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City, April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A single Orthodox traveler from Israel is alleged to have spread the disease to 39 people after he was misdiagnosed.
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Measles cases have been clustered in parts of Rockland County, N.Y., that include New Square, an all-Hasidic village. (Photo by Uriel Heilman)
A group of Rockland Hasidic rabbis issued a statement in Hebrew urging parents to vaccinate their children to stop the spread of measles.
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Rabbi Eli Yoggev sat for this week's class "because serious topics deserve sensitivity." (Photo by Amanda Krotki, Jmore)
We attempted to cover three topics in this particular class: Women and Orthodox Judaism, LGBT and Orthodox Judaism (except not the T, no time to get into that particular hornet’s nest) and Jews and Non-Jews.
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The Steinsaltz Humash includes a mix of translation and commentary, as well as illustrations, drawings, maps and photos. (Ben Sales)
In 2009, Koren Publishers Jerusalem, an Israeli label, published a competing Hebrew-English prayer book with commentary by Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. Now another prayer book has entered the fray.
Read MoreThe study, by two Orthodox Jewish researchers, surveyed more than 300 participants over a three-year period
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Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, celebrates in his Colorado store after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 in his favor in a dispute with a gay couple, June 4, 2018. (Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
The O.U. stance is significant because Jewish groups across the spectrum have long based their policy positions on a robust defense of religious freedom.
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A small suitcase taken to the Budapest ghetto by a family named Horowitz, holding family photos, postcards and a challah cover, is on display at the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in Brooklyn, New York. (Courtesy of Amud Aish)
Amud Aish is Hebrew for “pillar of fire,” a reference to the flames that guided the Jews at night as they wandered the desert during the Exodus from Egypt.
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Read More“They filmed, and I was openly gay in the film, and Netflix made them take it out and when they told me about it I was like ‘OK,’ but I didn’t get a choice. It wasn’t like I could say ‘no’ or ‘yeah.'” –Etty Ausch
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