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Several media entities refrain from using the term “ ultra Orthodox ”, including the Religion Newswriters Association ; JTA, the global Jewish news service ; and the Star-Ledger, New Jersey ’ s largest daily newspaper, according the New Jersey Press Association.

New Jersey attorney Stephen E. Schwartz, Esq., convinced the Star-Ledger to become the first mainstream newspaper to drop the term.

Several local Jewish papers, including Jewish Week in New York and Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia have also dropped use of the term.

According to Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer, spiritual leader of Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and former executive editor of Jewish Week, this leaves “ Orthodox ” as “ an umbrella term that designates a very widely disparate group of people very loosely tied together by some core beliefs .”