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Is the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Outreach movement "brainwashing" students?

By a concerned Jewish mother Our family practiced Conservative Judaism. My son graduated valedictorian from high school and went on to the University of Pennsylvania where he was accepted into the Wharton school of business. This was the school of his dreams and economic and finance were his career... More

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