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Avnei Eitan

Avnei Eitan is an Orthodox Jewish agricultural community in Gush Hispin, a bloc of religious communities in the southern Golan Heights.

Azi Paybarah

An example of this was when he informed others of congressional candidate David Weprin's statements in an interview for Vosizneias, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish websites in the United States, regarding the marriage equality law which allows gay and lesbian marriages in New York State.

Charles J. Hynes

Hynes has been criticized for alleged reluctance in prosecuting cases of sexual abuse against children in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, which make up a significant segment of Brooklyn.

Dani Shapiro

In a 2011 interview with the Jewish Ledger, Shapiro described being raised in a family with an Orthodox Jewish father and a mother from South Jersey who had grown up in a non-Orthodox home.

Gad Elbaz

Elbaz has performed at the Samuel Scheck Hillel Community Day School; an Orthodox Jewish school in Miami, Florida and at a public high school in Queens, New York.

Gimzo

Today the moshav consists of 140 families with over 700 residents, including ultra-orthodox and orthodox Jewish residents of both Sephardic and Ashkenazi backgrounds who lead a "religious-Zionist lifestyle".

Golders Green Beth Hamedrash

The Golders Green Beth Hamedrash (popularly known as Munks or GGBH) is an independent Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish congregation located in Golders Green, London, United Kingdom.

Hyman Bloom

Bloom was born into an orthodox Jewish family in the tiny Jewish village of Brunavišķi, in the Bauska District of the Zemgale region of southern Latvia, near the town of Bauska and about 45 miles south of Riga near the Lithuanian border.

Isaac Edward Ferguson

Isaac Edward Ferguson, known to his friends as "Ed," was born November 23, 1888 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the son of an Orthodox Jewish rabbi.

Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington is a very diverse neighborhood, containing Ukrainian, South Asian (Bangladeshi and Pakistani), Chinese, Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic, Irish, Polish, Italian, Albanian, Russian, Latino, Mexican, Australian and Caribbean communities.

Larry Yudelson

Although educated within the Orthodox Jewish tradition, his publications include a range of alternative and non-Orthodox Jewish materials.

Meir Zlotowitz

Meir Zlotowitz is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and founder of ArtScroll Publications.

Metropolitan Jewish Hospice

Because Orthodox Jewish patients look to Jewish law (Halakha) and tradition for guidance and answers regarding hospice care, Metropolitan Jewish Hospice created the Halachic Pathway that enables Orthodox Jewish patients to sign a Halachic Living Will if they so choose.

New York City College of Technology

Zev Brenner, an Orthodox Jewish radio host; president and founder of Talkline Communications

Samuel Bookatz

Samuel Bookatz (October 3, 1910 – November 16, 2009) was a prolific painter who defied the demands of his blue collar, Orthodox Jewish upbringing to study art in the United States and Europe.

Tav HaYosher

In 2009, the Tav HaYosher was announced by Uri L'Tzedek as the Orthodox Jewish community's response to these legal and ethical offenses.

The Yiddish King Lear

The husbands of the daughters among whom David Moishele divides his "kingdom" are, respectively a Hasid, an Orthodox Jewish businessman, and an apikoyres (a secular Jew: the word derives from Epicurean).

Torah Judaism

Torah Judaism is an English term used by a number of Orthodox Jewish groups to describe their Judaism as being based on an adherence to the laws of the Torah's mitzvot as expounded in Orthodox Halakha.

Yeshiva World News

It is known for providing news of interest to the Orthodox Jewish community.

Zdenka Rubinstein

Her husband's Orthodox Jewish family believed it unacceptable that their daughter-in-law performed in theatres.


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1971 in Israel

7 August – Yitzhak-Meir Levin (born 1893), Russian (Poland)-born ultra-orthodox Jewish Polish and Israeli politician, an Israeli government minister and a former leader of Agudat Israel.

Aba Dunner

Aba attended Yesodey Hatorah School, completing his high school education at the Gateshead Jewish Boarding School, where his classmates included Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz, Rabbi Matisyohu Salomon, and Rabbi Chaim Kaufman, all of whom went on to become leading figures in orthodox Jewish education in the UK and beyond.

Bais Moshe

Yeshivath Beth Moshe is an Orthodox Jewish Seminary located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Divorce

For couples to Conservative or Orthodox Jewish law (which by Israeli civil law includes all Jews in Israel), the husband must grant his wife a divorce through a document called a get.

Gutnick

Chaim Gutnick (1921–2003), prominent Orthodox Jewish Chabad rabbi in Australia

Haffkine Institute

The Haffkine Institute was established on 10, January, 1899 by Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, an orthodox Jewish Russian scientist from the Pasteur Institute, that assigned him to work in India, then in the throes of major plague and cholera outbreaks.

Howard Apfel

He has written for the Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society and Tradition: The Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought.

Issamar Ginzberg

In December 2013, Issamar was chosen as an Orthodox Jewish All Star by Jew in the City, alongside United States Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Robert Aumann, at an event held in New York City sponsored by the Orthodox Union.

Joshua H. Ritchie

He is the founder and director of the Refuah Institute in Jerusalem, a non-profit orthodox-Jewish center which provides training in therapy techniques, life-coaching, marriage and youth counselling based within the Jewish halacha.

Meyer Seewald

Meyer Seewald is a Crown Heights resident who started an organization dedicated to eradicating child sexual abuse (CSA) within the Orthodox Jewish Community.

Michoel Pressburger

Today, the Schiffschul is a much smaller synagogue serving the local Orthodox Jewish community while also serving as a sanctuary to Jewish refugees from Iran who transit through Vienna.

Michoel Pressburger (Michael Pressburger) is a leading Austrian haredi rabbi who heads the historic Schiffschul synagogue in Vienna's second district where a sizable (Ultra-)Orthodox Jewish community once thrived in the years leading to the Holocaust.

Migdalim

Migdalim was first established on 1984 as a pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turned over to residential purposes in 1986 to non-Orthodox Jewish Israelis.

Mohammad-Reza Bahonar

A student activist was quoted as saying the conference was "shameful" and had "brought to our country Nazis and racists from around the world." On the one hand, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss was invited by Ahmadinejad and gave a speech at the conference concerning Orthodox Jewish Attitude to the Holocaust.

Monsey Trails

Routes originate in Monsey, a community with a strong Orthodox Jewish but somewhat diverse population, and New Square, a homogeneous Hasidic village.

Munks

Golders Green Beth Hamedrash, an Ashkenazi Orthodox Jewish congregation located in Golders Green, London, United Kingdom

Noach Dear

Dear was widely seen as a political rival of Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who represents many of the same constituents that Dear once represented while in office, and comes from an Orthodox Jewish heritage.

Padwa

Chanoch Dov Padwa (1908–2000), Orthodox Jewish posek and rabbinic leader

Pikuach nefesh

A ZAKA delegation, a rescue team made up of ultra-orthodox Jewish men worked in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince soon after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Riverdale Academy

Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy – a coeducational, private Orthodox Jewish day school in Riverdale, The Bronx, New York City

Shalhevet High School

D., and Steve Bailey, Ph.D., the school's founding headmaster, Shalhevet developed a modified version of the Kohlberg-Gilligan "Just Community" template, which it hoped would become a national model for progressive education in an Orthodox Jewish setting.

Shlomo Helbrans

He then settled in Canada, where he was the head of the Lev Tahor settlement of an estimated 45 ultra-Orthodox Jewish families in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, before most members of the group (claiming religious persecution) left for Chatham and Windsor, Ontario in November 2013.

Yehuda Levin

In October 2010, Levin worked with Carl Paladino and prepared an anti-gay statement which Paladino read in part in the Orthodox Jewish community, which made national news.

Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu

In April 2009, Yeshivah Aharon Yaakov-Ohr Eliyahu bought the former Daniel Murphy High School campus, located in the heavily Orthodox Jewish populated Fairfax District.