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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Opinion Secrets of the Schneerson Library
Why does Chabad want the Schneerson Library back so badly? While researching this week’s story recounting the latest twists in Chabad’s decades-long struggle for the library, several people offered various explanations. Somehow, they seemed too speculative to include in the story — but interesting enough to raise here. Rabbi Berel Levin, the chief librarian of…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Orthodox Jewish Baby Dies After Parents Killed on Way to Hospital
The ‘miracle’ has turned to more tragedy. A newborn baby who was delivered by emergency C-section after his parents were killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital has died, a New York police spokesman said. The baby boy died from injuries overnight at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the spokesman said. His…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Baby Survives Crash That Killed Orthodox Jewish Parents Going to Hospital
The “miracle” infant of Brooklyn will forever celebrate its birthday on the anniversary of his parents tragic death. The premature baby remains in serious condition in a hospital intensive care unit after being delivered after his Orthodox parents were killed in a hit-and-run car crash as they rode to the hospital Sunday morning. UPDATE: Tragedy…
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Fast Forward Overflow Funeral Mourns Expectant Couple Killed in Crash on Way to Hospital
Orthodox Jews overflowed a New York synagogue and poured onto the streets on Sunday to mourn the death of a young couple killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived after delivery by C-section. Meanwhile police continued their intensive search for a hit-and-run driver and…
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Fast Forward Cops Hunt for Hit-Run Driver Who Killed Expectant Orthodox Parents
Police began an intensive search on Sunday for a suspected hit-and-run driver and a passenger who fled an accident on Saturday that killed a young couple on the way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived. Investigators launched what a police spokeswoman called “full-on search” for the male driver and female passenger…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Jewish Couple Killed in Car Crash on Way to Hospital To Deliver Baby
A pregnant Orthodox Jewish woman and her husband were both killed in a hit-and-run car crash early Sunday as they drove from their Brooklyn home to the hospital to deliver their first child — but the baby reportedly survived. Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21 years old, of Williamsburg were headed to a hospital in…
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News Hasidic Rebels Find Home in Brooklyn Chabad Congregation
On a freezing Friday night in Brooklyn, a group of 18 Crown Heights residents scurry through the crowds of Jews leaving synagogue and make their way to a second-story apartment on Rogers Avenue for Shabbat dinner. Inside, hippie art and vintage John Lennon photos share wall space with drawings of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the…
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Opinion Instagramming Purim in Hasidic Boro Park
People in Boro Park tend to stick with traditional Hasidic clothing like headscarves, shtreimels, and rekels. But on Purim you’re bound to see people dressed as clowns, princesses and even SpongeBob SquarePants. Here are a few Instagram photos from around the neighborhood that give a sense of what it’s like on Purim in Boro Park.
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