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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News Victim of Hasidic Gang Beating: ‘They Just Kept Punching Me’
In a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday, Taj Patterson recounted the horrific beating he says he received in December 2013 at the hands of a gang of 15 to 20 Orthodox Jewish men. “They threw me to the ground, dragged me on my knees, told me to ‘stay on the ground you f—king f——t,’” Patterson said, according…
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Fast Forward Satmar Decree Bars Women From ‘Dangerous’ College Education
— Hasidic rabbis from the Satmar sect reportedly have issued a decree barring women from pursuing higher education. The Yiddish-language decree says college education for girls is “dangerous” and “against the Torah,” and that “no girls attending our school are allowed to study and get a degree,” The Independent online newspaper based in Britain reported…
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Opinion What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Crown Heights
I was 7 years old when I first heard of Crown Heights. At the time, growing up in Los Angeles, my entire world felt Jewish. There were Hollywood Jews who worked in the industry like my parents, Russian Jews down the block from our West Hollywood home and Hasidic Jews on Fairfax. Sure, there were…
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Life These Hasidic Men Are Breaking Boundaries — By Designing Bikinis
Call it an anomaly, but the brains behind the splashy, blinged-out bikini swimsuit line Beach Gal, are two Hasidic men. Barry Glick, 30 and Saul Samet, 34 work out of an office in Boro Park, a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn, designing trendy high-end bathing suits with detachable accessories like beads, seashells and fringes. “It isn’t…
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News EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn Eruv Vandal Caught on Video Surveillance Photo
Surveillance video captured footage that apparently depicts a vandal pulling down a controversial Brooklyn eruv, the Forward has learned. Printed stills from the video are circulating in Crown Heights as police seek those responsible for the repeated vandalization of a controversial ritual boundary used by Orthodox Jews on the Sabbath. The new revelation came as…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Hasidic Rabbi Admits Raping Follower in Secret Tape
JERUSALEM — A rabbi who was extradited back to Israel from South Africa to face sex abuse charges is heard admitting to raping one woman on a years-old recording. The recording purported to be Rabbi Eliezer Berland was aired Tuesday night on Israel’s Channel 2. It reportedly has been turned over to the police. Berland…
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News L Train Subway Shutdown Threatens Livelihood of Brooklyn Satmar Hasidim
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Jan. 3, 2019 that New York’s L subway line will not be shut down for 18 months after all. This will come as welcome news to the Satmar Hasidim who live in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, many of whom use the line. Here’s how the Forward covered the potential…
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Fast Forward Firebomb Attack on Hasidic Luminary’s Grave in Ukraine
– Unidentified individuals hurled firebombs at the gravesite of a Hasidic luminary in the central Ukrainian city of Shpola. The incident in the city located 120 miles south of the capital, Kiev, occurred on Sunday evening, according to Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. Dolinsky wrote on Facebook Monday that the perpetrators intentionally tried to…
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