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 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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News Her Journey From Hasidic Rabbi To (Happy) Transgender Woman
Abby Stein is almost certainly the only ordained Hasidic rabbi who is also a woman. Stein wasn’t female when ordained, of course. She was a young man, soon to be married to a woman also from the strict Satmar community in which they were both raised. While Stein – then named Yisroel and nicknamed Srully…
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News It’s Chabad vs. Lithuanian Jews in Fight Over Holocaust Funds
Holocaust restitution money is supposed to heal wounds. But the Lithuanian government’s payment of $40 million to the country’s small Jewish community has reopened a decades-long dispute between Lithuania’s Jewish leadership and a Chabad rabbi from Boston. Arguments over the money have swelled into a debate about who better represents Lithuanian Jewry — a Hasidic…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Wild Melee Erupts Between Hasids and London Traffic Cop
A wild brawl erupted between a group of Orthodox Jewish men and a London traffic officer after the cop allegedly ran over a man dressed in traditional Jewish clothing with his moped. “He revved up his bike and drove straight towards him at full speed,” a witness told The Sun. The witness said the traffic…
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Fast Forward Mystery Hasids Swap Hats and Dance With Senators Lindsey Graham and Al Franken
On the way to a Senate vote yesterday, Lindsey Graham stopped a group of Hasidic Jews to compliment their hats. What ensued was a general swapping of fedoras, to judge by a photo that Graham’s Senate colleague Ben Sasse posted on Twitter. On the subway to the vote, Lindsey literally struck up the conversation with…
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Fast Forward Bloody Pig’s Head Carved With Swastika Dumped at Ukraine Pilgrimage Synagogue
– Unknown individuals broke into a synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Uman, sprayed red paint on the walls and left behind a pig’s head with a swastika carved into its forehead. The attack occurred on Tuesday night, DS News reported. The synagogue is part of the Ohel complex, built near the gravesite of the…
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