admin | June 24, 2020
Nachum Lamm, known asNorman Lamm, entered the rabbinate just as the second half of the twentiethcentury was getting underway. In 1951 he was ordained at the Rabbi IsaacElchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University (YU), where he hadpreviously earned a degree in chemistry. In 1966 he would go on to complete aPhD in Jewish Philosophy at YUs Bernard Revel Graduate School.
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admin | June 22, 2020
Jacqueline VanDusen is wheely tired. But after pedaling 4,415 miles, the Williamsburg resident has just enough energy for the home stretch of a mission three years in the making: to bike every block in Brooklyn
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admin | June 18, 2020
Videos circulating on social media recently show New York City Parks employees welding shut a playground in the heart of Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We have seen footage of the New York Police Department and NYC Parks Police in Boro Park shepherding Hasidic children out of a park and locking it shut behind them. Meanwhile, tens of thousands are allowed to protest in Brooklyn, while a maskless Mayor Bill de Blasio poses for photo-ops, ignoring the social-distancing guidelines his administration ruthlessly enforces against Jewish children and families
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admin | June 17, 2020
Written by Hannah Tindle, CNN Based on the true story of Deborah Feldman, a Jewish woman who left the Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in search of a new life, the hit Netflix series "Unorthodox" has brought Hasidic culture -- and its female dress codes -- into mainstream focus. One of the most talked about aspects of the show is the clothing, which shapes lead character Esty's (played by Shira Haas) story from beginning to end. The show's costume designer Justine Seymour spent hours on meticulous research, including a week-long stint within the Satmar community in New York
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admin | June 17, 2020
Last year, the journalist Kevin Roose wrote about Caleb Cain, a young, white, twenty-something man who came to sympathize with the alt-right (and then abandon them) simply by watching YouTube videos.
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admin | June 17, 2020
Deborah Feldman grew up in a strictly conservative religious community.
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admin | June 17, 2020
Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe at the Lag BaOmer parade in Brooklyn, New York, May 17, 1987. Photo: Mordecai Baron via Wikicommons
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admin | June 10, 2020
It's hard to imagine many more fertile breeding grounds for the coronavirus than the close, insulated quarters of the summer camps and bungalow colonies of Sullivan and southern Ulster counties. Yet it won't be long before tens of thousands of visitors to those camps and bungalows swell our roads, streets, stores and countryside.
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admin | June 8, 2020
Mishpacha/Twitter Police officers went undercover as Hasidic Jews to monitor protests against racism and police brutality in a majority-Jewish New Jersey town, Mishpacha reported.
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admin | June 8, 2020
Embed from Getty Images Very few people remember the name Lemrick Nelson Jr. today
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