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June 17,2010: Israel's domestic culture war between religious communities and the secular courts took to the streets on Thursday as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi (European) Jews paralyzed the streets of Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak in a protest march.
Thousands of Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash with Secular Courts - TIME
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The target of their outrage was the imprisonment of 43 couples for refusing to allow their daughters to attend a religious school where they would have to mix with the daughters of religious Mizrahi Jews (a term sometimes conflated with Sephardi and referring to those who hail mainly from the Arab world).
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#1 - Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:33 PM ESTThursday's demonstration was the largest in Jerusalem since ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered in similar numbers in 1999 in a show of strength against the supposed antireligious bias of Israel's Supreme Court. A decade on, the gap between the two entities is wider than ever, with running debates over such issues as the power of religious courts, state subsidies for religious students, religious exemption from military service and access to public roads on the Sabbath.
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Jewish Taliban: Ultra-Orthodox Vigilantes in Jerusalem
Modesty squads are roaming the streets, attacking and brutally beating people who fail to live up to a narrow religious code defining moral purity. People are afraid, and women are being victimized most of all. Is the Taliban resurgent? Well, yes, but that's not what this story is about; instead, this story is about Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem taking the "law" into their own hands and punishing people for failing to adhere to strict religious standards.
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Ultra orthodox are is just a veil on top of extremism. There is no such thing. Truth lies clear of falsehood and does need need adjectives to define it.
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ultra orhodox sounds little too odd. How about something simpler to what some seem to have vaguely coined up in other cases like judeoist for judeo-fascists
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