This is the Forward’s coverage of Hasidic Judaism, a sub-group of Haredi Judaism that adheres to the historical traditions of Eastern European Jews, including communicating in Yiddish.
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Fast Forward This Anti-Semitic Viral Video Resurfaced – Here’s What You Need To Know
Almost exactly a year ago, Quai James became internet infamous when a video surfaced of him taunting a young Hasidic boy on the streets of Brooklyn. The initial clip, which gained over a million views within its first days of hitting the internet, featured him saying, “I’d be crying if I looked like that too,…
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Fast Forward That Hateful Video Mocking A Hasidic Child Won’t Disappear Because The Internet Is Forever
Updated 1:05 p.m. A video of a man taunting a Hasidic boy for his appearance went viral last year, garnering more than two million views on Twitter and Facebook. But the man who created the video, Quai James, quickly and repeatedly apologized, even volunteering at a Jewish soup kitchen. That was supposed to be the…
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Fast Forward Menachem Mendel Taub, Hasidic Dynasty Head Devoted To Holocaust Memory, Dies At 96
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Menachem Mendel Taub, the Rebbe of the Kaliv Hasidic dynasty in Jerusalem, who devoted his life to memorializing the Holocaust and helping fellow survivors, has died. Taub died on Sunday at the age of 96 at his home in Jerusalem. His health had declined since a fall in his home two weeks…
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Fast Forward Yeshivas Escape State Review After Judge’s Ruling
Yeshiva supporters are cheering a decision issued by an Albany judge on Wednesday, which rolls back the controversial new guidelines regulating private school education that state education authorities laid out late last year. The decision, written by State Supreme Court Judge Christina Ryba, comes in a lawsuit brought by the pro-yeshiva advocacy group PEARLS, among…
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Fast Forward The Last Holocaust-Era Rebbe Dies, And A Neighborhood Shuts Down To Mourn
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect. Portugal, who served as the rebbe of the Skulen Hasidic group since his father’s death in 1982, was imprisoned in Romania in…
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Life The Renegade Street Photographer Of Boro Park
On 16th Avenue and 48th, in the heart of Boro Park, Avi Kaye — not his real name — is sitting in his car, camera ready. “He’s going to come out soon,” he mutters. We’re parked outside the Beis Midrash Emunas Yisroel synagogue, waiting for one subject — a regular at this shul, who will…
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Life Why Do Hasidic Men Button Their Shirts The Wrong Way?
On any given weekday, walk into just about any Hasidic synagogue, and you’ll see a rabbi bending over a lectern, dressed in a well-pressed sports jacket for shacharit (morning) prayers. His jacket has been scrupulously tested for shatnez and deemed kosher to wear, but something still seems off — his black buttons are twisted so…
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News Crown Heights Jews Feel ‘Invisible’ As Anti-Semitic Attacks Persist
Just before 1 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, a 22-year-old man was sucker-punched while speaking on the phone in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A few minutes earlier, a 51-year-old man nearby was knocked down and beaten. Neither had anything stolen from them. Both were Jewish. The twin attacks, from the same group of three assailants, make…
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