27, a young man heaved a large brick at Abraham Gopin, a 63-year-old member of the Chabad
Hasidic community exercising in Lincoln Terrace Park, toward the eastern end of Crown Heights.
Idel address the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, also referred to as Female, within the theosophical structures of many important Kabbalist, Sabbatean thinkers, and
Hasidic masters.
A community of
Hasidic Jews in Beit Shemesh has turned to a distinctly modern strategy to build their new house of worship: crowdfunding.
It is a masterly, bold and impressive treatise that is compelling for scholars as well as for those interested in Hasidim and
Hasidic origins and culture.
A prominent
Hasidic singer from Brooklyn used a racial slur against President Barack Obama at a concert in Jerusalem, a video posted online showed. Mordechai Werdyger, who goes by the name Mordechai Ben David, was performing a song about peace on Dec. 29 when he slammed the outgoing U.S.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met with the two
Hasidic men during a conference of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Tehran to commemorate the Nakba , or "catastrophe," according to political observer Sam Tamiz.
More problematic, however, is Wood's treatment of Hasidism and Yiddishism in Chapter 5: "Encountering the Yiddish Other:
Hasidic Music in Today's Yiddish Canon." Here, the conflict between religious and ethical practice arises.
In Julia Dahl's second mystery starring Rebekah Roberts, the young reporter for a New York tabloid is once again drawn into the closed world of
Hasidic Jews.
There is much ignorance about the insular
Hasidic communities, and fear by the modern, egalitarian province that
Hasidic women are being oppressed.
In this collection of short (one or two-page) Torah thoughts connected to the weekly Torah readings, mostly from
Hasidic sources, each vort is introduced with an explanation of its context and followed by a personal comment or observation from the author.
Seventeen-year-old Chanie Altman lives the protected life of a Lubavitcher
Hasidic girl in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, in 1991.