simmons | January 7, 2018
Orange County District Attorney David Gross, left, and David Friedman. Three concrete corporations run by Hasidic Jews in upstate New York pled guilty to withholding $780,000 in taxes, the Times Herald-Record reported
simmons | December 18, 2017
Vizhnitz is the name of a Hasidic dynasty founded by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager.
simmons | December 12, 2017
World of Appliances is a small strip mall operation, sandwiched between a Dunkin Donuts and a sushi joint. Four days a week, it sells refrigerators, washing machines and vacuums to residents of a New Jersey suburb.
simmons | November 25, 2017
Under the settlement between Kiryas Joel and the nonprofit group Preserve Hudson Valley, the village agreed to drop an earlier campaign to annex more than 500 acres of land while the group agreed to drop its appeal of the towns approval of the 164-acre annexation. Instead, the village will annex 56 more acres, for a total of 220.
simmons | November 24, 2017
Joe Diangelo, 28, says he was sexually abused at a mikvah, a bathhouse usually used by women for ritual cleansing, when he was 7. He no longer has contact with his family. Coburn Dukehart/NPR hide caption Joe Diangelo, 28, says he was sexually abused at a mikvah, a bathhouse usually used by women for ritual cleansing, when he was 7.
admin | November 22, 2017
Most Hasidic women do not pursue high-profile success in the outside world. They are taught their most sacred role is to maintain the religious sanctity of their home and raise their children. What a woman does in order to enhance her glory is not put herself out as an example to other people in the public domain, but rather in private, in the home, said Samuel Heilman, a professor of sociology at City University of New York and an expert on the Orthodox and Hasidic communities
richards | September 26, 2017
by Lisa Katz Updated September 20, 2017 In general, Orthodox Jews are followers who believe in a fairly strict observance of the rules and teachings of the Torah, as compared to the more liberal practices of members of modern Reform Judaism. Within the group known as Orthodox Jews, however, there are degrees of conservatism
admin | September 20, 2017
Photo: Federica Valabrega/A24 B+ Joshua Z. Weinstein Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus In limited release July 28 Before making the film Menashe, documentarian Joshua Weinstein donned a yarmulke and explored Brooklyns Borough Park, getting to know the stories and personalities of New Yorks Hasidic Jews. That was the easy part of the process.
admin | August 24, 2017
Patch.com After Drowning, Rockland Fights Over Hasidic Ambulance Company Protocols Patch.com After Drowning, Rockland Fights Over Hasidic Ambulance Company Protocols.
admin | August 24, 2017
Menashe is a heartfelt Yiddish-language drama about a widowed Hasidic father trying to regain custody of his son.
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