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 Williamsburg’s Hasidic Pool Wars Heating Up Again Before Summer
It’s spring in Williamsburg and that means one thing: Hasidic groups and New York City are gearing up for another fight over single-sex swimming hours at public pools. The city originally granted the single-sex swimming hours at two area pools as an accommodation to the area’s Hasidic women, whose code of modesty precludes them from…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Ultra-Orthodox Pilgrims Survive Plane Mayday
An emergency cabin depressurization on a Titan Airways flight left a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews fearing for their lives on March 19. The plane was flying from London to Rzeszow in Poland when a Mayday signal was sent out, the cabin lost pressure, and oxygen masks came down. The ultra-Orthodox Jews were flying to visit…
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Fast Forward Stubborn Stains? Try This Hasidic Trick
I was in the waiting room at my doctor’s office when I struck up a conversation with two Hasidic women. They were only in their thirties, but between the two of them, they had 17 children. They braced themselves when I said I needed to pick their brains on something. “How do I get those…
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Fast Forward Do New Hasidic Circumcision Illnesses Show New York’s Rules Are Toothless?
After New York reported six new cases of herpes contracted by Hasidic infants who underwent a controversial circumcision rite, the city admitted that no action has been taken against any of the mohels involved. In fact, the rabbis have been identified in only two cases — and they were simply warned to avoid carrying out…
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Fast Forward WATCH: The Orthodox Are Wearing Popcorn Hats In Israel
An Orthodox streimel hat made of popcorn seems to have popped up (apologies) as one of the most popular (sorry) costumes in Haredi Israel this Purim. A day after Israeli journalist Sam Sokol published a photo of an Orthodox man in a study hall wearing the classic wheel shaped hat but filled with popcorn, he…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Couple Bares All In Expose About Kinky Double Life
A Brooklyn Hasidic couple says they carry on a sex-soaked double life — meeting women for kinky threesomes and bondage sex while maintaining the outward appearances of a strictly observant ultra-Orthodox family. The couple told the New York Post they hunt for willing sex partners on the Tinder app, swiping right for interludes that sometimes…
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Fast Forward 6 More New York Babies Get Herpes After Undergoing Circumcision Rite
Six babies are said to have been infected with infant herpes in New York City since Mayor Bill de Blasio cut a deal with the Hasidic community that continues to allow ritual circumcisers mouth-to-genital contact. The news emerged Thursday after a newborn was rushed to the hospital two weeks after undergoing the procedure, known as…
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Fast Forward Big Ultra-Orthodox Family Wreaks Havoc On Flight From Israel To U.K.
It was a nightmare at 20,000 feet Monday, as an ultra-Orthodox Jewish clan traveling to a wedding in Britain disrupted a flight. The Hasidic men refused to sit next to women, stood up in the aisles while the plane was in the air and disturbed passengers during the five-hour flight. “They were blocking the aisle,…
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