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News In this diverse, changing suburb, liberal Jews are struggling to understand their Hasidic neighbors
Sometimes, when Katrina Hertzberg sees a visibly Jewish person in her neighborhood in Nyack, N.Y. — a woman wearing a wig, say, or a man in a black suit and hat — she thinks to herself, “Oh my God, are we next?” She wonders whether her area of Rockland County, N.Y., is next to receive…
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Books The history of Hasidism: A New History by those who wrote it
Editor’s Note: In 2018, the Forward published this essay raising concerns about female representation in Jewish Studies, focused on a 2017 book about Hasidism. One of its authors responded this month with a broader critique of diversity in the field. The original critics then had another take, and now more of the authors are responding….
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News This N.J. man’s on a crusade against anti-Semitism — and John Bolton might help
John Bolton is perhaps the most in-demand person in Washington, D.C. If he testifies in the impeachment hearing, he could change the course of history. But Bolton may sooner show up in the suburban town of Jackson, N.J., than on the floor of the Senate. That’s because Dr. Richard Roberts — an Orthodox Jewish philanthropist…
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News The release of a mentally ill man charged with hate crimes will test controversial new bail law
A man charged with committing anti-Semitic hate crimes is free after a year in jail awaiting trial, due to a new law that bans cash bail for certain offenses. Orthodox Jews say the law, intended to keep poor people from remaining locked up simply because they cannot afford bail, is the wrong move at a…
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News The reason for this major New York rally is violence against Hasidic Jews. But will they go?
Several of the New York area’s biggest and most important Jewish organizations will hold a rally on Sunday in response to a recent epidemic of attacks on Hasidic Jews, including a machete attack at a Hanukkah party last weekend that left five people wounded, including one in a coma. The event is intended to express…
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Fast Forward In Jersey City A Street Artist Has Painted A Mural Over The Kosher Grocery Store Attacked Last Week
View this post on Instagram A post shared by God Conscious Art (@trueheartart) on Dec 18, 2019 at 3:39pm PST A Jersey City artist has painted a mural over the damaged facade of the kosher grocery store where three people were killed by armed assailants last week. The mural was put up Thursday morning, after…
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News Orthodox Jews Raise $1.5 Million For Family That Owned Jersey City Grocery Store
In just over a week, a crowdfunding campaign for the family of Mindel Ferencz, who was shot and killed in the Jersey City kosher grocery shooting, raised over $1.5 million, primarily from Orthodox and Hasidic donors. The show of support has been remarkable even for the Hasidic world, in which the importance of charitable giving…
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Life Sheitels, Jewels, Stories: Orthodox Holocaust Survivor Women Speak Their Lives
In a sunlit space in Brooklyn’s Industry City — warehouse-style windows, exposed ceilings, Lucite fixtures — forty Orthodox women who survived the Holocaust gathered December 16 for a very chic Hanukkah party. The event was organized by Orthodox jewelry designer and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors Freida Rothman, in collaboration with Nachas Health and Family Network,…
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