Yoav Marer commutes from Yeshiva Ohr Somayach, an ultra-Orthodox rabbinical school.

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In 2010, 50 percent of ultra-Orthodox male high school graduates were conscripted.

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Beren, an Orthodox Jewish day school in Houston with 67 students, appealed to TAPPS to reschedule the state semifinal against Dallas Covenant from 9 p.m.

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Snowe, 66, came about her independence through being orphaned at age 9 and sent off to an out-of-state boarding school run by the Greek Orthodox Church.

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Kalaidzhi, who are almost all devout Orthodox Christians, are known to remove girls from school at 15 or even earlier to keep them from mixing with boys.

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The school board is almost entirely made up of ultra-Orthodox Jews who send their children to private schools and are bent on keeping taxes low.

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Public-school parents accuse the board of the 9, 000-student East Ramapo Central School District of cutting teachers, guidance counselors, art programs, all-day kindergarten and the high school marching band, while diverting public resources to favored Orthodox institutions.

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Even before the U.N. approved the partition of Palestine, in 1947, David Ben-Gurion, who believed that the ultra-Orthodox would become secular over the generations, quieted their objections with old-school political deals.

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Among those who went to Sunday school, the proportion dropped to 29%, and among those who attended Jewish day school to 7% although part of the reason may be that the Orthodox, who almost all go to day schools, are the least likely to intermarry anyway because they still see marrying out as a sin.

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