Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Neighborhood in Israel Has Other-Worldly Feel
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From the Old Quarter of Jerusalem, Lucia and I hopped a taxi to Me’a She’arim, one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in the city, established in 1874. Walking its streets felt like time-traveling, to an insular Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Eastern Europe 100 or more years ago, certainly before World War II. The Yiddish term for such communities is s…
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