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 Ukraine Nationalists Destroy Hasidic Pilgrimage Tent City
Ukrainian nationalists destroyed a tent city erected by Hasidic Jews in Uman, ahead of the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage. “On Shabbat, when they knew we wouldn’t be able to respond or activate the communication device, they simply knocked down the fence, pushed the light poles and security cameras and caused damage estimated at half a…
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Fast Forward Hasidic Coast Guard Pilot Hurt in Crash — Lauded as Hero
A Hasidic pilot for the Coast Guard crash-landed his Cessna airplane in New Jersey on Thursday after encountering engine trouble, bringing it down in a recreational field and sustaining serious injuries. The pilot, Jack Rosenberg, was one of two pilots on the plane, which was doing routine patrols over the Hudson River when its engine…
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Fast Forward Did London Hasidic School Teach Pre-Schoolers About Evil ‘Goyim’
A Satmar Hasidic school in a London borough apologized for using the term “goyim” on worksheets following a newspaper report that its preschoolers were being taught that non-Jews are evil. An article published Tuesday in the Independent newspaper, a major British daily, focused on a worksheet on the Holocaust used by the young students at…
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Fast Forward Meet Google’s Hasidic Consultant — No Degree Required
(JTA) — When Issamar Ginzberg enters his Jerusalem office on a sweltering summer day, he’s wearing a long black coat tied at the waist and a black hat. His long, scraggly beard and sidecurls, or payos, offer no relief from the heat. The office — thank God — is air conditioned, and Ginzberg offers kosher…
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Life The ‘Shidduch Crisis’ Has Led to an Orthodox Obsession with Female Beauty
“We usually don’t take a car,” the yeshiva boy says to the driver, an older Irish man with a hearty laugh and a dapper straw hat. “But the lady was inappropriately attired (he winks at his date), in her heels I mean, so we had to…” The yeshiva boy’s date cuts him off and leans forward to the…
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Opinion Does Gothamist Have a Hasidic Problem?
The popular New York City-centric news site Gothamist has been nominated six times for the prestigious Bloggies award, and was dubbed a “Best of the Web” by Business Week and “Blog of the Year” by Wired magazine. The New York Times once that it “reflects everything worth knowing about this city.” You’d think a publication…
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox Mom and I Want City To Probe Brooklyn Yeshivas
Faigy Mayer took her own life on July 20, . Despite its geographical proximity to her birthplace, she was light years from her roots. Faigy was born into a Hasidic family in Brooklyn and didn’t mince words about her former life in what amounted to a suicide note posthumously published soon after her death. In…
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Culture How Judy Brown Learned To Love Her Little Brother
Judy Brown used to say her little brother was “crazy as a bat.” Nobody in her community or even in her family understood the boy who terrorized baby sitters and flapped his hands in the air. Even Brown wished he would go away. If Hashem performs miracles, she wondered, why couldn’t He “cure” her brother?…
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Yiddish די „ייִדישיסטישע ישיבֿה“ איז אָפֿן פֿאַר נײַע תּלמידיםThe Yiddishist Yeshiva is open for registration
אין דעם אייגנאַרטיקן לייענקרײַז לייענט מען חומש מיט רש״י אויף לשון־קודש און ייִדיש־טײַטש.
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