Leibel is a freelance copywriter living in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and two children.
Leibel Baumgarten
By Leibel Baumgarten
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Life We Hasidim Aren’t Aliens. And We’re Tired Of The Media Acting Like It.
In a recent ‘This American Life’ episode, about the annual West Indian American Day Parade, the show’s host Ira Glass, speaks of the parade-goers in Crown Heights: “Walking up to Jamaicans on the street felt like walking up to people from another planet, people with a general air of hostility, or at least suspicion to…
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Opinion El Al Should Apologize For Smearing The Orthodox Over Shabbat Flight Debacle
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An El Al flight was delayed and ultimately diverted because “Right Wing Ultra-Orthodox Passengers” forced others to acquiesce to their outlandish religious requests. In the most recent example, a November 15 flight from New York to Tel Aviv was so delayed that many passengers were worried they…
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Opinion Yes, Farrakhan Is Still Dangerous. Just Ask Us Orthodox Jews.
If you think Farrakhan is irrelevant, it’s likely because you haven’t been spat in the face or heard your children cursed in the street. Watching the tepid response to the Women’s March Louis Farrakhan controversy, I can’t help but feel despondent. Even with a few voices in the Jewish media speaking out, many see Farrakhan…
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Community Orthodox Trump Supporters Are Not White Supremacists
Since November 2016, members of the media have been finding Nazis everywhere — even in seemingly impossible places. The latest example in the Forward was a piece by Elad Nehorai proclaiming that Orthodox Jews are embracing White Nationalist ideology. Nehorai is a writer I have long respected and admired, both for his mastery of the…
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