ultra-Orthodox

The term "ultra-Orthodox" — the Hebrew equivalent is "Haredim," or "those who fear" God — is shorthand for sects that share loyalty to an eastern European ideal of religious study, large families, modesty, charity and a rejection of secular society.

Modern news seeps into a once-closed Jewish world 2011

The term "ultra-Orthodox" — the Hebrew equivalent is "Haredim," or "those who fear" God — is shorthand for sects that share loyalty to an eastern European ideal of religious study, large families, modesty, charity and a rejection of secular society.

Modern news seeps into a once-closed Jewish world 2011

Born into a Brooklyn family that was “as frum as they come” frum being the name the ultra-Orthodox Jews give to themselves, Shiya is descended from a long line of clerics.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

FaceGlat, the ultra-Orthodox social networking site, is an attempt to offer Haredi Jews the experience of Facebook without all the immodesty.

Rabbi Jason Miller: Orthodox Jewish Version Of Facebook Gets Hacked ... Again Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

If FaceGlat intends to maintain a modest social networking site for its ultra-Orthodox adherents it will need to invest in some strong website security.

Rabbi Jason Miller: Orthodox Jewish Version Of Facebook Gets Hacked ... Again Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

The ultra-Orthodox “refuse to acknowledge kinship” with the less religious majority.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

The New York Times recently ran an account of a Polish neo-Nazi “skinhead” who became an ultra-Orthodox Jew after he discovered that he had two Jewish grandparents.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Of special note is Anat Zuria's moving Israeli documentary Black Bus, a painful and touching saga of two women who escape their repressive ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but endure familial estrangement as a result.

Fern Siegel: New York Jewish Film Festival Fern Siegel 2011

From the viewpoint of a Western or specifically in Matisyahu's case, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish society built largely on order and control, it is easy to become lost in fear at the uncertainty such a journey presupposes.

Gabe Crane: Matisyahu's Spiritual Evolution And What It Means For Us Gabe Crane 2011

From the viewpoint of a Western or specifically in Matisyahu's case, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish society built largely on order and control, it is easy to become lost in fear at the uncertainty such a journey presupposes.

Gabe Crane: Matisyahu's Spiritual Evolution And What It Means For Us Gabe Crane 2011