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Leah Aharoni

A scene from the Netflix series “Unorthodox.” Source: Screenshot.

Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ degrades Chassidic Jews into caricatures

This supposedly romantic story of a young woman running away from the tyranny of a Chassidic “cult” is just another play-out of the secular Jewish aspiration to break with thousands of years of Jewish tradition.

Leah Aharoni

April 30, 2020

A Women of the Wall prayer service at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Dec. 1, 2016. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Let my dad pray at the Western Wall

Leah Aharoni

January 5, 2017

Click photo to download. Caption: A Women of the Wall prayer service. Credit: Women of the Wall.

Women of the Wall should lead through action

Leah Aharoni

October 8, 2013

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