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Netflix series Unorthodox is bringing the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community into the mainstream – ABC News

| April 13, 2020

Updated April 09, 2020 09:14:21 If you've had a moment to collect your thoughts and breathe after bingeing the truly wild documentary series Tiger King, you might've noticed another Netflix series that has been trending this week that's also based on a true story. Unorthodox is a four-part German-American miniseries and Netflix's first offering to be told primarily in Yiddish.

Unorthodox: A young woman’s escape from her suffocating community – The Dartmouth

| April 13, 2020

by Nicole Aboodi | 4/13/20 3:00am Have you ever been invited into a space that feels so uniquely intimate and fragile that you observe it as carefully as possible, hoping to not miss a moment?

More basic than a crisis of faith: Will the virus upend ultra-Orthodox society? – The Times of Israel

| April 13, 2020

Haredi society has been struck uniquely hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

The crumbling structures of Romanias Jewish past – Haaretz

| April 13, 2020

SIBIU, Romania You can almost hear the children clamoring,their voices filling the room with amelngeof Hungarian, Romanian,Yiddish and Hebrew.You can almost see them, clutching notebooks and climbing the staircase, with its Star of David and menorah motifs, on their way to class. You can almost imagine their Sibiu, their Austria-Hungary, their Romania, their Europethatonce was. But this former Jewish school, located next to the citys sole remaining synagogue, has largely been lost to history.Romanias communists nationalized this building in the 1960s, turning it into an apartment complex and stripping it of any meaningful religiosity.

Five Things To Watch If You Loved Netflixs Unorthodox – Grazia

| April 13, 2020

Its quite the side-step from Tiger King, but everyones latest Netflix obsession after bingeing on the lives of Joe Exotic et al - is Unorthodox. If youve not seen it yet, the four-part series is inspired by Deborah Feldmans book, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.

ISSUES OF FAITH: Find beauty in small things during hard times – Peninsula Daily News

| April 10, 2020

ALL THE WORLD is a very narrow bridge. And the main thing to recall is to have no fear, to have no fear at all. Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslevs words are profoundly wise in this time of crisis.

How ‘Unorthodox’ on Netflix got Hasidic Jewish customs right – Los Angeles Times

| April 8, 2020

The Netflix limited series Unorthodox follows Esty, a young Hasidic woman desperate to flee the only world she has ever known for an uncertain future halfway around the world. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Williamsburg in a Satmar community a Hasidic sect known for its extreme religious conservatism and rigidly enforced gender roles Esty (Shira Haas) escapes to Berlin, where she befriends a group of conservatory students and attempts to track down her estranged mother. The series flashes back to explain the circumstances that led her to make such a dramatic break with the past: As a sheltered teenager, she is set up in an arranged marriage with Yanky (Amit Rahav), a young man she barely knows, and is expected to start a family almost immediately

Gov. Cuomo tells Orthodox Jews to abstain from large religious gatherings – The Jerusalem Post

| April 8, 2020

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Orthodox Jewish community to refrain from holding large religious gatherings, saying on Tuesday that the New York Police Department will do what they need to do to enforce his social distancing regulations. I understand religious gatherings, I understand the Jewish Orthodox community

Family of Holocaust survivor mourns over the wrong body – JTA News

| April 8, 2020

(JTA) The family of a Brooklyn grandfather performed funeral rites for the wrong body due to a mix-up but their upset turned to satisfaction for helping out a stranger with no one to grieve his loss.

Coronavirus in NY: Cuomo tells police to break up funerals, social gatherings; fines will be $1,000 – syracuse.com

| April 7, 2020

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