richards | March 10, 2017
Richard J. Bayne Times Herald-Record @RichardBayne845 BLOOMINGBURG Opponents who had come to Thursdays Planning Board meeting prepared to speak against a temporary community center at the controversial Chestnut Ridge development shouted protests at the board chairman when he abruptly canceled the meeting because he couldnt get a quorum.
richards | March 6, 2017
Between 1911 and 1950, there were hundreds the exact number is the matter of some debate of Yiddish films produced, mostly in Eastern Europe and America. It seems safe to say that over the past few years, there have been more Yiddish-language films than at any time since World War I.
richards | March 5, 2017
Latest brochure touts residential rental properties in South Blooming Grove and homes for sale in Woodbury Published Feb 23, 2017 at 1:57 pm (Updated Feb 23, 2017) A new 20-page real estate brochure distributed widely within the Village of Kiryas Joel and other Hasidic enclaves in New York offers a primer on buying property and obtaining mortgages. The publication also details single-family rentals in the Village of South Blooming Grove and homes for purchase in Woodbury
richards | March 5, 2017
Joy and its expression through song and dance have been important values of the Hasidic movement since its beginnings in the second half of the eighteenth century. The idealization of music reflected an innovation in Jewish culture, in contrast to the general attitude of the Ashkenazic rabbinical establishment.
richards | March 5, 2017
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Published: February 27, 2017 4:09 PM CDT Updated: February 27, 2017 4:09 PM CDT In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, elementary school girls get out of school in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. Followers of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum began coming here from Brooklyn in the 1970s, hoping to create the sort of cohesive community some recalled from Europe, with large families a big part of it.
richards | March 2, 2017
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. When I got married, I decided to speak Yiddish to my children, and not just any Yiddish, but my husbands heymish Yiddish; in other words Hasidic Yiddish.
richards | February 28, 2017
February 27, 2017 at 4:09 pm | By MICHAEL HILL In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, elementary school girls get out of school in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. Followers of Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum began coming here from Brooklyn in the 1970s, hoping to create the sort of cohesive community some recalled from Europe, with large families a big part of it.
richards | February 26, 2017
Photo Credit: courtesy, Ramapo Police Department Residents of the Hasidic village of New Square were horrified Tuesday night to find the words GET OUT and large Nazi swastikas were painted in black on a fence that borders the community on Polnoya Road. The six-foot fence separates a school in the village from a rehabilitation facility in New City, on the other side
richards | February 26, 2017
Menashe is part of a community where not being strict about the rules gets your kids thrown out of school, being unmarried is frowned upon and the religious leader decides the fate of the people. Menashe is a Hasidic Jew living in New York, a man who wants to retain custody of his young son at all costs, despite being single, not particularly well-employed and an outcast.
richards | February 25, 2017
Workers roll matzah dough into thin, round discs at the Satmar Bakery in Brooklyn.
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