Rockland County police searching for white Ford F-150 truck in connection to recent attacks on Hasidic Jews – CBS New York
admin | July 19, 2022
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De Blasio quits crowded race for Congress in heavily Jewish district – Forward
admin | July 19, 2022
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability at City Hall on April 13, 2021. Photo by Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office By Jacob KornbluhJuly 19, 2022 Hours before former Mayor Bill de Blasio abruptly dropped out of a crowded Congressional primary in Brooklyn, he spent the evening fielding questions from a dozen Orthodox voters about Israel, yeshiva education and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Hasidic neighborhoods.
Jewish group sues Long Island beach town over turning its worship land into a lifeguard center – Washington Times
admin | July 19, 2022
A Jewish group is waging a fight in federal court to keep the officials of a beach community on Long Island, New York, from turning their worship and outreach property into a lifeguard center. The village of Atlantic Beach has other options for building the lifeguard center closer to the beach but chose to take the property in violation of the Jewish groups constitutional rights, the federal lawsuit alleges
Progressives Have Abandoned Haredi Children – Jewish Currents
admin | July 16, 2022
(This article previously appeared in the Jewish Currents email newsletter; subscribe here!) PICTURE THIS: Its the end of the annual state legislative session in New York, a time when backroom deals are made to get legislation passed. Special interests, lobbyists, and activists of all stripes are descending on Albany to cajole lawmakers into acting on their priority issues. One legislator representing a Hasidic community in Brooklyn introduces a last-minute bill that, if enacted, would give Haredi yeshivas near complete autonomy on determining their curriculum, torpedoing the states ongoing efforts to enforce minimum education standards in yeshivas that fail to instruct their students in basic subjects like math, English, social studies, and science.
At this Yiddish music festival, tradition is everything and nothing J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
admin | July 16, 2022
The dance workshop was in full swing, but catastrophe was afoot: Nobody understood how to make a four-pointed star. Im referring to a folk dance pattern that, as one of the less competent dancers in the room, I am ill-equipped to properly describe. Suffice it to say that there are eight people standing in a square, and four of them are supposed to put their arms into the center and pivot clockwise (or was it counter-clockwise?), swinging each of the remaining four dancers in turn.
How American Jews (stayed) white | David E. Bernstein | The Blogs – The Times of Israel
admin | July 14, 2022
Among progressives, there is a bitter debate over whether American Jews whose ancestors immigrated to the US from Europe should be deemed white (and thus beneficiaries of white privilege), or non-white, given their vulnerability to antisemitism, including violence from white nationalists who deem them to be non-white. I believe that this debate misses the mark; it tries to fit antisemitism, which has myriad origins, most of which have nothing to do with whiteness such as Jews being Christ-killers) into the American black-white paradigm. This reaches an absurd apex when people assert that the Nazis killed Jews because they thought Jews werent white, as if the Nazis didnt have their own bizarre racial hierarchy one that didnt match that of the Jim Crow South
At a Yiddish music festival in bucolic Massachusetts, tradition is everything and nothing – Forward
admin | July 14, 2022
Audience members jump up to dance during a concert at Yidstock. Photo by Ben Barnhart The dance workshop was in full swing, but catastrophe was afoot: Nobody understood how to make a four-pointed star. Im referring to a folk dance pattern that, as one of the less competent dancers in the room, I am ill-equipped to properly describe
This couldnt happen anywhere: How coverage of the shooting failed Highland Park – Forward
admin | July 10, 2022
A memorial site near the scene of the shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images Elad NehoraiJuly 07, 2022 The first moments after finding out about a shooting in my hometown felt like living in slow motion.
Meet the mind behind the hilarious mashups of Hasidic dance and hip-hop – Forward
admin | July 4, 2022
By Louis KeeneJune 29, 2022 Hasidic Jews dont tend to blast hardcore rap music at their festivities let alone dance the hora to it. But thats exactly what appears to be happening in a series of viral videos like this one: Its a simple editing trick, of course in the original video, filmed in 2016 at a wedding in Israel, a live band is playing a Hasidic tune. But the near-perfect synchronization of bass and bochurs has been eliciting fresh delight with each new mashup.
Orthodox women who built businesses, friendships online are being told to sign off – The Times of Israel
admin | July 4, 2022
JTA Shaindy Braun and her wig business had nearly 40,000 followers on Instagram, amassed over nine years, when she abruptly announced her departure from the social media platform.
