admin | December 18, 2019
"We thought it was a gang fight," Steinmetz said. Unlike previous times, however, the bursts of gunfire intensified rather than dissipated.
admin | December 18, 2019
A deadly anti-Semitic attack on a Hasidic Jewish grocery store in New Jersey has pushed a tight-knit, deeply religious community into the national spotlight.
admin | December 18, 2019
(JTA) The Song of Names is a heartwarming film about a Jewish violin virtuoso who renounces his faith in the aftermath of the Holocaust, only to rediscover it when he hears a song of remembrance. The violinist, Dovidl Rapaport, is shown in three stages of his life, the last as a Hasid played by Clive Owen. The Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor and Academy Award nominee said he was more than a little surprised to be offered the role
admin | December 18, 2019
One Saturday a few weeks ago, after the end of Shabbat, an audience of almost a thousand women gathered in the synagogue of the Belz Hasidic sect in Jerusalem for a long, intensive evening. The organizers had been worried that the event would not be well attended.
admin | December 18, 2019
This is the pernicious nature of anti-Semitism: It emerges in many different forms, from all sides of the political spectrum. It is impossible to name a single enemy responsible for the apparent recent spike of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States; Jew hatred easily shape-shifts to fit the purposes of many ideologies
admin | December 18, 2019
In some religious institutions, there are many gender-specific traditions and norms.
admin | December 18, 2019
GOSHEN Two Orthodox Jewish men were sentenced on Wednesday to probation for robbing a Hasidic developer in March outside Monroe Town Hall.
admin | December 18, 2019
LOS ANGELES (JTA) Another Jewish community has sustained a bloody attack that left Jews everywhere reeling. On Tuesday, a small enclave of Hasidic Jews in Jersey City, New Jerseyhad their worlds shaken and disrupted during a frightening siege.
admin | December 18, 2019
Photo Credit: YouTube {Originally posted to the Abu Yehuda website} In Israel, we are familiar with the story. A couple of armed terrorists walk into a building and start shooting Jews. A pigua (terrorist attack).
admin | December 18, 2019
Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater
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