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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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• Jonestown cult ended in mass suicide of 909 as Jim Jones' devoted followers drank cyanide-laced "Kool Aid"
• Church of Scientology staffer in Quebec City earned $70 for nearly 39 hours of work, document shows
• Scientology Founder's Risque Letters to Encinitas Pal Up for Auction at Christie's
• NXIVM: Judge denies bail for founder of alleged sex cult tied to Allison Mack
• Mock Suicide Drills, Child Labor and Armed Guards: Inside Jonestown in the Days Before Mass Poisoning
• Gay Christians 'being forced out' by evangelical churches
• New York Officials Launch Investigation After Inside Edition Exposed Child Labor in Commune

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