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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather Dec. 26 around a sign that reads in Hebrew, 'Women are asked not to linger in this area' outside a synagogue in Beit Shemesh, a town in central Israel. Women and men are segregated in many ways in ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather Dec. 26 around a sign that reads in Hebrew, 'Women are asked not to linger in this area' outside a synagogue in Beit Shemesh, a town in central Israel. Women and men are segregated in many ways in ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

Opposing views split Israeli Jews

By ETHAN BRONNER
and ISABEL KERSHNER

The New York Times

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JERUSALEM – A few months ago, the Israeli Health Ministry awarded Channa Maayan, a pediatrics professor at Hebrew University, a prize for a book she had co-written on hereditary diseases common among Jews.

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