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Yiddish World WATCH: A powerful song by a young woman who left the Hasidic world behind
Read this article in Yiddish. Although there have been a number of new Yiddish songs recorded in the past couple of years, it‘s rare to see songs written by women who have left the Hasidic community. Hannah Gee was raised Hasidic but decided early on that this wasn’t the life for her. Yet, in contrast…
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Yiddish World In a delightful short film, a Hasidic bookbinder leads a secret online existence
Read this article in Yiddish. Right from the beginning, “The Binding of Itzik”, a new short film playing in the online Yonkers Film Festival and winner of Best Narrative Short Film at the Berlin Underground Film Festival, treads into uncharted territory. As innocuous piano music plays in the background, the film opens with a computer…
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News A Hasidic village’s coronavirus tests went from 34% positive to 4% in a month. The county health commissioner is asking how.
In the course of about a month, the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, N.Y., managed to drop its rate of positive tests for coronavirus infection by a dramatic 30 points — from 34.2% in the last week of September, to 4.2% this week, according to state data released Wednesday. Town leaders and New York Gov….
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Fast Forward Satmar wedding made ‘family-only’ after NY officials order halt to plans for ‘tens of thousands’ of attendees
(JTA) — The wedding of the grandson of Satmar Grand Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum will be for family only after plans for a reception for tens of thousands of well-wishers drew condemnation from New York officials. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that state health officials had issued a formal public health order putting a…
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Fast Forward Report: organizers of five Brooklyn High Holiday gatherings hit with $15,000 fines
The organizers of five Jewish religious gatherings in the Hasidic hub of Borough Park, Brooklyn, received maximum-allowable $15,000 fines for violating state rules limiting such gatherings to 10 people in areas where coronavirus infection rates are highest, sources told the New York Post. The city said that it handed out $150,000 total in fines in…
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News Why are the Orthodox protesting in the streets? And more of your questions, answered.
Orthodox Jews in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park marched in the streets Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in demonstrations that turned violent and ended with fires in the street and a man in the hospital. Here’s what you need to know. Why are Haredi Jews protesting? Borough Park is one of the neighborhoods where…
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News Hasidic counter-protester critically injured in Borough Park Cuomo-de Blasio protest, now in stable condition
Berish Getz, a Borough Park resident, was beaten to the point of critical injuries during a demonstration that raged until the early morning Wednesday against new state-mandated restrictions imposed on the neighborhood, as well as others home to New York’s ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, communities. He is now in stable condition and is undergoing body scans…
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Fast Forward Orthodox areas drive NYC’s COVID-19 rate to highest level since June, mayor says
New York City’s one-day positive COVID-19 test rate jumped to 3.25%, its highest rate since June, with much of the new cases attributable to zip codes with large Orthodox Jewish communities, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. The high test rate portends a shutdown of the city’s nascent public school reopening plan…
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