simmons | May 17, 2017
Most native New Yorkers go to extreme lengths to avoid Times Square, but for one young Hasidic couple this weekend, the iconic tourist trap became the site of a dream come true. Both the bride and groom hail from prominent rabbinic dynasties Hadassa Halperin of Toronto is a 20-year-old relative of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The 23 year old groom, J.J.
admin | May 17, 2017
With the opening of the wedding season, one can award the original wedding ceremony of the year (thus far) to a young ultra-Orthodox couple who chose, for the first time in history, to perform a Jewish wedding ceremony in the heart of the most visited area in New York, Manhattan, in the center of Times Square. The famous New York Square has now seen it all: Times Square, the beating heart of New York City, was aflutter this week when a Hasidic couple chose to perform their wedding ceremony there.
admin | May 15, 2017
Chris McKenna Times Herald-Record @ChrisMcKenna845 SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE It didn't take Jeff and Elizabeth Baum long to find a buyer for their house once they decided it was time to leave Worley Heights. One by one, a cascade of neighbors already had made the same decision, selling their homes to eager Hasidic couples and investors from nearby Kiryas Joel or Brooklyn in the midst of a real-estate frenzy
richards | May 15, 2017
The number of Hasidic children in Montreal being educatedat home has jumped dramatically over the past two years, following a crackdown by the Quebec government onultra-Orthodox Jewishschools. There are currently 705Hasidic childrenregistered to be supervised by the English Montreal School Board
admin | May 15, 2017
A delegation of Hasidic Jews and discussed with them issues including the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and combating child sex abuse. The pontiff held a 45-minute audience at the Vaticanon Mondaywith the group, which was led by Rabbi Edgar Gluck. A video on the Yeshiva World News website and also posted to YouTube shows the pope swaying to the music as members of the delegation dance and serenade him with the song Long years shall satiate him.
admin | May 15, 2017
The group visited the Vatican to discuss certain issues, chiefly the rise of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe. The rabbi, together with his son Zvi Gluck also discussed the issue of child abuse.
richards | March 13, 2017
New York Times An Incisive Play About Hasidism , With Actors Who Lived It New York Times As a Hasidic Jew, she spent her childhood with eight siblings in the Yiddish-speaking and largely insular Satmar sect in Borough Park, Brooklyn. She had little knowledge of secular theater, film and television, which are frowned upon as sacrilegious.
richards | March 13, 2017
James tucked his side curls behind his ears and tore off his yarmulke as he left the hotel. Waiting for him in the parking lot in her car was a sultry brunette stranger, and they were both eager for their first date at an Italian restaurant in Omaha, Neb. They hit it off.
richards | March 12, 2017
Singing satirical songs while cross-dressed in Hasidic costume, Pepi Littman was once a controversial star of the Yiddish theater. Littman faded into obscurity after her death in 1930
richards | March 10, 2017
Heres a story youve been waiting all year to hear. Its from the nineteenth century and concerns Reb Chaim Soloveitchik of Volozhin, a city in what is now Belarus. Reb Chaim later moved to Brest, called Brisk by Jews, and was the grandfather of Rabbi Joseph B.
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