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 El Al Barred From Asking Women To Switch Seats For Ultra-Orthodox
El Al airlines cannot ask women to move seats to accommodate a man who does not want to sit next to a person of the opposite gender, a Jerusalem court found in response to a lawsuit filed by a Holocaust survivor in her 80s. In a decision handed down on Wednesday, Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court Judge…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Painted On Hasidic Jerusalem Syngagogue
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Swastikas were painted on the walls inside a synagogue in central Jerusalem. The swastikas were painted on the walls of the Hasidic Lelov synagogue in Jerusalem’s Nachalot neighborhood, as well as on the outside walls of nearby apartment buildings. The vandal or vandals also attempted to set fire to religious books in…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Rabbis and Iran Imams Agree On One Thing: Zumba Is Very, Very Bad
Iran generated headlines around the world last week and sparked a vicious backlash after its government did the unthinkable: they made Zumba illegal. But, as Haaretz points out, the Muslim clerics who hope to purge Iran of “Zumba and any harmonious movement or body-shaking instruction” might find sympathy among their sworn enemies: ultra-Orthodox rabbis. Four…
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Fast Forward 20,000 Hasidic Jews Protest In Brooklyn Against Israeli Draft
(JTA) — An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Jews protested in New York against the conscription of haredi yeshiva students and the arrest of draft dodgers. Most of the participants in the rally Sunday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn were from the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose Central Rabbinical Congress of the U.S.A….
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Life Should Hasidic Moms Have A Dress Code?
Who among us would disagree with the suggestion that we “unite to show our children that there is another way”? Out of context, this suggestion seems as if it might relate to climate change, say. Or just something like basic human decency. Sam Kestenbaum reports that a Hasidic girls school in Crown Heights, Bnos Menachem,…
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Fast Forward Crown Heights School Warns Moms To Ditch Leggings And ‘Loud’ Nail Polish
A Hasidic girls school in Brooklyn is demanding mothers of students appear more “modest” next school year. Some of the things the administration is forbidding? Leggings, denim and “loud” nail polish. In a letter to parents from Crown Heights Girls’ School Bnos Menachem, director Motty Gurary explained the rationale for the changes: to “create a…
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Fast Forward Autopsy Inconclusive On Brother Of Leiby Kletzky’s Killer — Mystery Deepens
The death of the brother of Leiby Kletzky’s killer is still a mystery. An initial autopsy failed to determine a cause of death for Tzvi Aron, whose body was found Friday in his family’s Brooklyn home — the same infamous building where his brother stashed the remains of the slain 8-year-old Hasidic boy in 2011….
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Fast Forward Leiby Kletzky Killer Says He ‘Hopes’ Brother’s Death Not Related To Infamous Slaying
The convicted killer of Leiby Kletzky says he hopes his own brother’s mystery death is not related to the 8-year-old Hasidic boy’s 2011 slaying. “I hope not,” Levi Aron, 40, told the New York Post in an interview at the Sullivan County prison. The corpse of Tzvi Aron, 29, was found Friday wrapped in a…
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