“Young Jews don’t need safe space; they need brave space an understanding of what it means to engage with Israel. But we can’t ask them to be advocates until they know something,” said Rachel Fish, founder of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism.
Since it was released just over two weeks ago, the nine-part mini series has been hailed as the successor to last year’s
Unorthodox – the TV hit of the first lockdown – a drama about a young woman’s attempts to flee her arranged marriage in Brooklyn and start a new life in Berlin, based on the true story of writer Deborah Feldman.
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Julia Haart’s My Unorthodox Life has been hailed as one of the binge-watch shows of the year. Such shows, including earlier Netflix drama
Shtisel, have been spawned from the voyeuristic curiosity to pull back the curtain and have a good gawp at one of the world’s most insular communities.
Meet Julia Haart, who went from orthodox wife to fashion mogul at 50
The CEO of Elite World Group only left her life as a Jewish housewife eight years ago – now she s the star of Netflix s latest hit show
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For more than four decades, Haart had no regular access to radio, TV or newspapers
“Let them stare!” Julia Haart laughs as she totters in towering heels and short shorts down supermarket aisles in upstate New York. The 50-year-old looks out of place among the modestly dressed Orthodox Jewish housewives – but it wasn’t long ago that she was one of them.
By:
Caroline Fox
Cider can be a complex drink category, but thankfully, Jimmy Carbone from Beer Sessions Radio has been reporting on the industry since 2011, and is here to guide you through it all. This playlist is designed to be a roadmap, taking you through the ins-and-outs of cider. Starting from the beginning, episodes recorded as early as 2011 are full of experts, here to offer a great introduction into producing, tasting, and creatively experimenting with cider. You’ll watch the cider industry quickly rise in popularity through the years, with more recent episodes diving deeper into specifics, including “place-based” apples, “harvest-based cider,” unidentified apples, and barrel aging. So whether you re interested in learning the basics or diving into the details, Beer Sessions has plenty of in-depth episodes to get you up to speed on the sweet world of cider.
They told her women couldn t join the ambulance corps. So she started her own
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By: Emma Goldberg
Judge Rachel Freier has helped dozens of Orthodox Jewish women in New York City get training and start work as emergency medical technicians. In doing so, she challenged her community s conception of the role women can play in public and professional life.
The test presented itself, as tests so often do, on a completely ordinary day.
Charna Goldsmith was driving with her family on the Belt Parkway. Her attention was pulled in multiple directions at once from her children crying in the back seat to her mental catalogue of errands. The Brooklyn air was heavy with midsummer heat. The parkway, as usual, was congested.