The couple belonged to a close-knit ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, which is home to the largest community of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250, 000.
Schwartz bucked opposition from both the IDF and the ultra-Orthodox establishment and founded the crucial unit which brings ultra-Orthodox youths into the IDF in large numbers for the first time.
Stories about ultra-Orthodox misogynists make it politically costly for the Likud and Israel Beiteinu to sit in the same government as ultra-Orthodox parties such as Shas and United Torah Judaism.
Domestically, disagreement with the ultra orthodox about serving in the army remains a contentious issue dividing the Israeli society, as does the genuine integration of the Arab minority into Israeli society, let alone the recent economic downturn, and the ever-growing gaps between rich and poor.
And so, with our national discourse suddenly dominated by stories describing the demise of Israeli democracy, women's rights and the rule of law at the hands of modern Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews, we need to consider who benefits from the stories.
Orthodox (and certainly ultra-Orthodox) children almost all attend Jewish day schools, at least at the elementary level.
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But ultra-Orthodox Jewish factions have been excluded from government for the first time in a decade.
Brooklyn is home to the largest community of ultra-orthodox Jews outside Israel, more than 250, 000.
Israeli analysts believe Netanyahu will, in fact, succeed in building a coalition, likely without the ultra-Orthodox.
Police said the suspects have been charged with "intending to attack" the two ultra-Orthodox men.
It is has been difficult to prosecute cases of abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community.
For now, Mr Nachman continues to spurn the ultra-orthodox Jews who have peopled much larger settlements.
These durations are unprecedented in Jewish history and unmatched by ultra-orthodox communities outside Israel.
The Glaubers were members of Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community - the largest in the world outside Israel.
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The event at Citi Field isn't the first time the ultra-Orthodox community has grappled with the Internet.
Mr Netanyahu was forced to give up his alliance with the ultra-Orthodox parties: Shas and United Torah Judaism.
The Brooklyn, New York, car crash devastated an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and sparked a manhunt for those responsible.
This is especially true of ultra-Orthodox communities close to the 1967 border such as Beitar Ilit and Modi'in Ilit.
The deaths brought heartache to the Glaubers' close-knit, ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.
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Mr Annan condemned Tuesday's attack on an Israeli bus near the entrance to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish settlement of Emmanuel.
He has also demanded reform of a law under which ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students can defer their military service.
It has been difficult to prosecute cases of abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community.
Netanyahu's Likud party has traditionally aligned with the ultra-Orthodox factions as coalition partners.
That is why increases in government subsidies to ultra-orthodox communities in Israel have sharply increased the duration of yeshiva attendance.
They said the group of adults and children started throwing snowballs at the two Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men as they passed by.
In recent decades the country has seen a relentless growth in the numbers, power and political self-confidence of its ultra-Orthodox citizens.
While Jews regularly practice circumcision as part of their religion, metzitzah b'peh is limited to a relatively small number of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
For now, those parties are maintaining a common front, signaling that Netanyahu has to make a choice between them and the ultra-Orthodox.
The fact that the ultra-Orthodox bus lines were inaugurated with the support of the Kadima government in 2007 is beside the point.
For the ultra-Orthodox parties, it is also acceptable, since it preserves, for the moment at any rate, the Orthodox monopoly over marriages.
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