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Culture How Hasidism Still Manages To Thrive
Hasidism: A New History By David Biale & 7 co-authors Princeton UniversityPress, 896 pages, $45.00 In 1770, a young man of 18, later to be known as Solomon Maimon, traveled from Nesvizh in Lithuania to the court of Dov Ber, the foremost leader of the budding Hasidic movement, in the Polish town of Mezerich. As…
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Life These Incredible Photos Show What Hasidic Life Is Actually Like
Joshua Haruni spent years documenting life in Israel’s Hasidic communities — from the Rebbe’s office to the tisch’s with thousands gathered to sing, from cheder graduations to the moments in the kitchen on Friday afternoon. Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, life editor, spoke to Haruni about his forays into this community. This interview has been edited and condensed…
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News New York Stalls On Yeshiva Education Reform — And Activists Demand Answers
In 2015, New York City announced it was launching a major investigation into secular education standards at yeshivas. Three years later, no such report has surfaced. Now, activists are calling on the city’s public advocate and comptroller to investigate the city itself for failing to address what they say are widespread educational shortcomings in the…
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News Elite Hasidic Girls School Scrambles To Keep Lid On Sex Misconduct Scandal
The principal of a prominent all-girls’ yeshiva in Brooklyn promised change after the school was rattled by an allegation of sexual misconduct by students against a long-time employee in May. But in a letter sent to parents and in a phone interview with the Forward, the school’s longtime principal denied that any misconduct actually took…
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News Is A Private Community In Suburban New York Targeting Hasidic Jews?
The first Hasidic couple to move to Highland Lake Estates alleges that on their first night in the new house, the head of the community’s homeowner’s association shined the headlights of his car into their home for twenty minutes. Other Hasidic families say they woke up to find their mailboxes vandalized or destroyed. Once, the…
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Life Meet The World’s Only Hasidic Bagpipe Player
Not every bagpipe-playing altar boy considering joining the priesthood grows up to be a Hasidic Jew — but Ian Sherman did. Ian, known today in many circles by his Hebrew name Ephraim Eliyahu, was born to a Scottish Catholic mother and an Eastern European Jewish father, and was raised in Goshen, New York. Brought up…
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News NYU Hospital Accuses Hasidic Group Of ‘Counterproductive’ Role With Patients
NEW YORK (JTA) — One of this city’s largest hospitals has accused a Hasidic group that visits sick patients of lying about the hospital’s policy to limit access by volunteers to patient floors and rooms. Dr. Andrew Brotman, senior vice president and vice dean for clinical affairs at NYU Langone Health, said a claim by…
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Fast Forward Advocate For Secular Education In Yeshivas Received Death Threats
The founder of a group advocating for improved secular education in ultra-Orthodox schools says he received a death threat last week, following months of harassment on social media. “I want to tell you that I will kill you soon with God’s help, and very soon you will be dead and your blood will be spilled,”…
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