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Opinion I led an antisemitism training for workers in a labor dispute with their Hasidic bosses. Here’s what I learned
I often hear the complaint that 'no one is talking about antisemitism' in organizing spaces, and that is simply untrue
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Yiddish World New Hasidic song slams yeshivas that reject students who don’t fit in
The Yiddish rap song is presented from the perspective of a father who wants his son to be accepted for who he is
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Fast Forward Performing hasidic music, these women are transcending gender and the Orthodox-liberal divide
A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate 'Kapelya,' the first recording of hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women
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Fast Forward Suspect in antisemitic subway rant pleads guilty to hate crime
Bradley Werner was caught on video screaming at a Hasidic man that he would not be safe in Manhattan and should go back to Brooklyn
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Yiddish World The church preacher who gave sermons in Yiddish
Joseph Rabinowitz, a 19th century Hasid who found Jesus, hoped that his Christian-Jewish sect would improve the fate of the Jews
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Fast Forward There is no Hasidic ban on tech, but this sect is making an exception for AI
Skverer rabbis issued the decree, calling AI 'a terrible danger'
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Opinion ‘So many broken hearts’: Remembering Michoel Schnitzler, father of Hasidic pop
The Orthodox community is grieving an artist with a big voice and an even bigger heart
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Fast Forward House Speaker McCarthy visits Hasidic communities in Rockland County
'I will always defend you,' Kevin McCarthy promised the Orthodox community on his first NY trip as speaker
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Yiddish World Who was the audience for the rhyming Purim play?
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