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...Aviv that is the epitome of Israeli gay rights is only a short bus ride from one of the more inflexible Orthodox communities in the country, Bnei Brak. And in all matters connected to religion, gay rights are considered subservient to traditional Jewish teaching, in which male homosexuality is outlawed and lesbians simply do not exist...
...keep quiet, knowing that to speak out will damage their prospects of finding a husband. "The families all want their girls to have a AAA marriage to a religious scholar from a good family, and nobody's going to marry a girl who gets raped," says Ragen. In Bnei Brak, a predominately Haredi city near Tel Aviv, social worker Doron Agasi says one young Haredi man told him that he had molested more than a hundred girls. Agasi, director of the Shlom Banaich Fellowship, the only organization in Israel that treats pedophiles and their victims, convinced the young...
...hard to find positives in such stories. Yet it is better that they come to light than that they remain the dark secret of the Haredi. In Bnei Brak, police say one rapist in ultra-orthodox garb is stalking preteen girls, cornering them in dark hallways or in parks. It took weeks before religious elders alerted the police to the sexual predator, who has yet to be caught. But authorities say it is a sign of changing times that the Haredi children, and their parents, did not endure these crimes in silence...
...Simpsons” (to which it bears a number of striking similarities), and the new wave of Adult Swim comedies which tend to repel all but a select core of viewers after a single episode (“Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and “The Brak Show” are prime examples...
MARRIED. BENZION MEISLES, 19, grandson of the head of the New York-based Bobover Hasidic Jews, and HAIYA ERENTSER, 17, granddaughter of the leader of Israel's influential Vishnitz group; in Bnei Brak, Israel. Many of the 20,000 guests had to watch the union of two of the largest Hasidic dynasties on closed-circuit television. According to custom, the bride and groom had met only three times prior to the ceremony. EXPELLED. ARJUN SINGH, 64, minister turned outspoken critic of the government of India's Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao; from the ruling Congress Party for six years...