richards | May 14, 2016
Hasidic school raided by FBI for amid alleged rabbi sex abuse NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, May 12, 2016, 3:53 PM FBI agents raided a Hasidic school Thursday where a principal was taped forcibly touching two young male students.
richards | May 5, 2016
(Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine) By last spring, the atmosphere at school board meetings had become angry and bombastic. One activist parent had compared board members to Pontius Pilate; behind closed doors, one board member called another a moral degenerate.
richards | May 1, 2016
Rabbi TobaSpitzer Id like to share with you a Hasidic teaching that I talked about 11 years ago on Yom Kippur (just in case any of you have really good memories). Ive decided that after 10 years Im allowed to recycle a teaching! Its good environmental practice, so that we dont have an overflow of rabbinic words clogging up theatmosphere. But seriously, its a beautiful and important teaching, and worthwhile to bring again.
richards | March 31, 2016
Haredi Judaism, Hasidic Judaism, and Orthodox Judaism are all names for different religious movements within the Jewish faith. The three can be looked at as a family, with Haredi Judaism existing as a subset of Orthodox Judaism, and Hasidic Judaism existing as a further subset of the subset
richards | March 28, 2016
James Jackson wasnt interested in selling his home but thanked the black-suited man for his interest anyway. Thats when the man put his hand on Jacksons shoulder and told him he might want to reconsider. Many of his neighbors in the New Jersey shore town of Toms River, the man said, already planned to sell to Jewish buyers like those he represented
richards | February 21, 2016
The Hasidim Last night PBS aired an extraordinary documentary titled "A Life Apart: Hasidism in America." Most people are familiar with Hasidim as the "ultra-orthodox" in Israel. On TV news, you usually see the men in their long black coats, beards and sidecurls on the front lines of some demonstration for expansion into Palestinian land
richards | February 21, 2016
Beginning in the 10th century, Jewish mystics and philosophers wrote commentaries on Sefer Yetzirah, a book about the secrets of creation probably written around the third century. At the same time, Jewish mystics compiled works of heikhalot literature, an early corpus of texts focused on mystical ascents to heaven
richards | February 3, 2016
Wednesday, February 03, 2016 Hasidic Jews Watch "Fiddler on the Roof" For the First Time Bloomingburg mayor, trustee seek re-election Bloomingburgs mayor and a village trustee have filed their paperwork to run for re-election in March. Mayor Frank Gerardi and trustee James Johnson will run again on the Rural Heritage ticket, an independent party that was built on its opposition to developer Shalom Lamms construction of a 396-unit Hasidic townhouse development within the village. The last two village elections were decided in a courtroom, after allegations of voter fraud and religious discrimination led to fierce legal battles
richards | January 15, 2016
Raised ultra-Orthodox in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Abby originally Srully Stein recently began transitioning from male to female.
richards | January 14, 2016
Note: The Hebrew word Hasid means "pious" and is employed in classical Jewish sources to designate one whose spiritual devotion extends beyond the technical requirements of Jewish religious law. The term came to denote an adherent of the popular East European Jewish religious movement whose history and doctrines are outlined below.
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