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A married rabbi from New York City has been arrested in Israel for 'rape by deception' after his double life as a secular dating app Romeo was exposed. Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Paryzer, 35, has been criminally charged for using a false identity to get women to have sex with him - with one of the relationships lasting more than seven years. The father of two allegedly used fake names such as Jake Segal to set up online dating profiles on sites like Tinder and Bumble and dated many of the women simultaneously. Two of the women he allegedly fooled filed...

(JTA) — Shira Berkowitz was building a career in Jewish camping when a camp told them not to return. “It got around that I was that was queer, and that that wasn’t appropriate for me to be a program director for girls,” Berkowitz said. “And that was really harmful to my identity. I went back in the closet for a few years.” Berkowitz’s career and personal identity recovered, and they went on to work at Camp Sabra, Missouri’s biggest Jewish overnight camp, which they described as far more accepting. “But I was also very aware that there was almost no...

It only shows him to being a non PC regular guy, lol

The Pseudo-Jews strike again. Another knife in the back. Et tu, Shlomo ? Now, before I get myself in some hot water and get charged with a hate crime or something, I'm going to come right out and say it. I'm Jewish. I eat bagels and lox like it's going out of style. I cry like a baby every time I watch Schindler's List. I call my mother every chance I get, despite the fact that I'm wracked with guilt for hours afterword. I spend every Passover at my Aunt Esther's house and make small talk with relatives I can't...

At least $600 million in Jewish charitable funds have been wiped out by the collapse of Bernard Madoff's Wall Street investment firm, a partial review by The Jerusalem Post revealed Monday. Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Investors, including the medical center, had more than $24 billion in funds overseen by Bernard Madoff. Photo: AP Slideshow: Pictures of the week Yet much is still hidden about what may amount to the most spectacular financial disaster to hit Jewish life since the Great Depression, with unconfirmed losses totaling up to $1.5 billion. Furthermore, the Post's figures do not...

"This, by local standards, is a modest affair. Hundreds of New York bar mitzvahs cost $100,000 or more. Many top the quarter-million-dollar mark. If you're ready to spend that sort of money on a five-hour shindig for an eighth-grader, Pat James is the man to see. " "A few weeks ago, David H. Brooks, the CEO of a body-armor maker, reportedly spent millions on his daughter's bat mitzvah, renting out the Rainbow Room, which sits atop Rockefeller Plaza, and flying in the rapper 50 Cent, as well as Aerosmith, Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks." "There have been bar mitzvahs at...

PEORIA -- The smile never left Jon Scheyer's face even as the pain from his sprained knee, cut fingers and sprained thumb was whisked away by the delirium Saturday night. "This has been a dream of mine since I was a little kid," Scheyer said after leading Glenbrook North to its first state basketball championship with a 63-51 victory over Carbondale before a crowd of 10,110 at Carver Arena. "It is unbelievable. Carbondale thought we were a one-man team, but they found out different [Saturday night]." Scheyer wound up scoring 27 points to give him 134 for the state tournament,...

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--Countries that oppose the U.S.-led war on Iraq have no right to criticize the Bush administration for restricting Iraq reconstruction contracts to companies from companies that supported the war, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. said Friday. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan said, "It's amazing how people who were doing everything possible to derail the success" of the Iraq war now "feel they have the right" to reconstruction contracts. "It just takes so much chutzpah." The ambassador's comments on the diplomatic controversy came during a strong defense of President George W. Bush's foreign policy in the Mideast. Bandar went...