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The Schmooze The New Yorker Goes to Brooklyn for ‘Hipster or Hasid’ Cover
This week’s New Yorker cover taps into the visual similarities between two very different types of Brooklyn dwellers: Hasidic Jews and hipsters. The striking image is named “Take the L Train,” referring to the Brooklyn-bound subway line, and features a hipster and a Hasid, back to back, sporting the same long black beard. The Orthodox…
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News Hasidic ‘Evidence Drive’ Seeks to Shame DOE
Got any report cards sent home with no grades assigned for secular subjects? Any textbooks, purchased with government dollars, in which teachers have slapped stickers over unapproved subjects? Hand ‘em over, says an advocacy group pushing to raise the quality of secular education in Hasidic schools. The group, Yaffed, is holding an “evidence drive,” asking…
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News B&H Photo Accused of Anti-Latino Discrimination — Segregated Bathrooms for Whites
The federal government is charging the Hasidic-owned New York electronics store B&H Photo & Electronics with discriminating against its Hispanic warehouse workers — including separate bathrooms. Hispanic workers at the company’s Brooklyn warehouse are forced to use dirty, often broken restrooms, while white workers have access to “superior” toilets, according to the complaint U.S. Department of…
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News Can Montreal Hasidic School Pupils Be Jolted Into Modernity?
At five o’clock in the afternoon, the lights are still on at an elementary school in Montreal. The school looks like any other school. It is a four-story red-brick building with a playground in the front and a parking lot in the back. A curtain in a third-floor window moves aside, and a little boy…
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Breaking News Bloomingburg Settles Suit Claiming Discrimination Against Ultra-Orthodox Voters
An upstate New York village will appoint an election monitor after settling a lawsuit that accused its board of elections of attempting to cancel the voter registrations of some 160 Hasidic Jewish residents. Ten residents of the Catskills village of Bloomingburg, New York, which has a total population of about 420, filed a lawsuit against…
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News FailedMessiah Blogger Quits Muckracking Anti-Hasidic Site
The muckraking Jewish blog FailedMessiah is losing its publisher and sole writer, according to a statement posted February 2. Shmarya Rosenberg, a disillusioned former member of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic sect, has run the site from his home in Minnesota since 2004. The site combined news aggregation with some original reporting, and a was a central…
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Culture Bulletproof Stockings, World’s First All-Female Hasidic Rock Band, Gets Debut Album
They’re labeled as the world’s first all female Hasidic rock band, challenging conventions while still keeping the faith, yet alternative-rock band Bulletproof Stockings is taking more than just the Hasidic world by storm. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and several gigs at secular venues, the group is gearing up to release their debut full length…
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Breaking News Sara Mayer, Hasid Who Committed Suicide, Was Forced To Marry First Cousin
Sara Mayer, the 31-year-old Brooklyn Hasidic woman who hanged herself Sunday four months after her sister Faigy’s suicide, reportedly went into a tailspin after she was forced to marry her first cousin. Mayer never recovered mentally from the arranged marriage five years ago, . She was also the victim of years of both psychological and…
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