Hasidic
What does Yiddish scholar Samuel Spinner mean by Jewish primitivism?
Writers I. L. Peretz and Franz Kafka both drew inspiration from Jewish folk culture and Hasidism.
GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa frustrated at lack of Jewish support
Sliwa said he’s seeking to make amends with the Orthodox community in his longshot bid for mayor.
Poll: Democrats support secular education requirements at yeshivas
The vast majority of registered Democrats support requirements for secular education at religious yeshivas, according to a new poll commissioned by the advocacy group YAFFED that was released Wednesday.
Ultra-Orthodox anti-vaxxers blame coronavirus shot for Rabbi Twerski’s death
In some corners of Ultra-Orthodox or Haredi social media, the beloved rabbi and psychiatrist Abraham Twerski died not of coronavirus, but of a man-made menace even worse than the virus itself: The COVID-19 vaccine.
On Ultra-Orthodox social media, the messiah is almost here.
On WhatsApp and YouTube, some Hasidic Jews see Biden’s inauguration in apocalyptic terms.
Dr. Zelenko attended Capitol Trump rally and hoped to avoid “too much collateral damage”
“I support anyone who is willing to help people and maintain liberty and spread truth.”
The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Dovid Leitner‘s book includes a telling anecdote about a misunderstanding between the Belzer Rebbe and the German-Jewish hotel owner.
WATCH: A powerful song by a young woman who left the Hasidic world behind
In this music video, Hannah Gee expresses the loneliness of a young woman who’s chosen a very different lifestyle from that of her parents.
In a delightful short film, a Hasidic bookbinder leads a secret online existence
Eli Rosen plays Itzik, a middle-aged man who gets unexpectedly drawn into a passionate affair online.
A Hasidic village’s coronavirus tests went from 34% positive to 4% in a month. The county health commissioner is asking how.
“This is not a typical declination in percent positive rate, which would be more gradual and over a longer period of time.”