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thoroughly Jewish Thursday. This is Michael Brown. Absolutely delighted to be with you. Here's the number

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I've got a few news items I want to cover with you, but the main focus and where I want to really

start and things I want to address today have to do with a big controversy.

There's been a lot of news about this in recent weeks.

And I actually know a lot of the details of what's going on.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews are the most religious, and their communities are the most closed.

It's for a couple of reasons.

One is because they live among themselves.

They have their schools, they have their places of business, and they're very, very deeply

communal. So it's very natural

for their communities to be insular. Also, they want to keep out the pollution of the outside world.

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