Posts tagged "ultra-orthodox Jews"
Sex Abuse Scandals and Ultra-Orthodox Jews: Is the Internet the Problem?
By Ayala Fader The digital age has caused a crisis of moral authority among ultra-Orthodox rabbinic leadership as they work to keep the secular world -- and sex abuse scandals -- at bay.
Pashkevil-joy
03 January 2006 Joel Greenberg of The Chicago Tribune, surveys the admonitory posters, or pashkevils, which cover the walls of ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem, warning the haredim against movie-watching, “media of all kinds,” and tight clothes, even as much of secular Israel begins to view the screeds of the ultra-Orthodox as a burden on mainstream society.
