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Israel may soon get its first female Chareidi judge!
"Chavi Toker, a senior attorney at the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, is currently listed as a candidate for a judgeship in the Jerusalem Magistrate Court.
"A graduate of the Beis Yaakov Hahadash Seminary in Jerusalem, Toker is the daughter-in-law of the late Rabbi Nahman Toker, dean of the Hevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Givat Mordechai neighborhood. If appointed, Toker would be the first haredi woman to serve as judge in Israel, but not the first female haredi judge in the world. In December 2016, Rachel Freier became the first female haredi judge to serve in the US."
Siberian Synagogue Built by Jewish Children In The Czar’s Army Returned To The Jewish Community
There was a family we knew at shul whose grandfather had been one of the cantonists taken in the Czar's army at around age 12 and sent to Siberia. Most of the grandchildren have since returned to yiddishkeit.
more on the cantonists, including a Jew who spent time at Tomsk, the area mentioned in the post just above where the wooden shul has been returned to the Jewish communtiy
"During the reign of Nicholas I, approximately 70,000 Jews, some 50,000 of them children, were taken by force from their homes and families and inducted into the Russian army. The boys, raised in traditional Jewish villages, were pressured via every possible means, including torture, to accept baptism. Many resisted and some managed to maintain their Jewish identity.
"The Russian Czar is long gone, as is the Soviet Union. Many descendants of the cantonists have outlived their antagonists, and till today proudly maintain Jewish traditions. The stubborn faith proved stronger than any czar or punishment."
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