New York Ends Funding for 2 Yeshivas That Fail to Teach Basic Skills
The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not ...
The Forward on MSN1 天
At a Hasidic Jewish sweat lodge, enlightenment in the all-encompassing darkness
The taxi dropped me off for the lodge on a seemingly deserted street in Southwest Ranches, a neighborhood northwest of Fort ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency9 年
‘Hasidic Rebel’ Shulem Deen on leaving Orthodoxy and losing his children
The author of “All Who Go Do Not Return” speaks with JTA about Hasidic culture, first transgressions and how a new generation of formerly haredi Orthodox Jews is defying stereotypes.
The Forward on MSN3 天
A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency7 年
A Hasidic dynasty began in this Romanian town. Now the Jewish community is barely surviving.
Before the Holocaust, prayers were led here by none other than Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the late founder of the Satmar movement of Hasidic Judaism. The Satmars, who derive their name from this ...
‘Hateful bigot’ attacks Jewish man in NYC lobby with unhinged rant: ‘I want ISIS to ...
As I got closer, I heard the word ‘Jew’ being thrown around, and ‘genocide’ and ‘Israel’ and ‘Palestine,’ and I just knew immediately,” a witness said.
Two NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
New York State is cutting public funding to two Brooklyn Hasidic yeshivas and requiring parents to find alternative schools ...
PBS9 年
SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA
Some surviving Hasidic Jews went to Antwerp, London or Montreal, but most went to Israel and to the United States. Some important rebbes also survived the war and emigrated, with each forming the ...
PBS3 年
INSIDE THE COMMUNITY: A HOLY LIFE
An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...