admin | June 16, 2021
As the first person from the Hasidic community to come out as transgender, Abby Stein is a pioneer. Stein recounted her experiences in the book Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman.
admin | June 16, 2021
Before Andrew Yang announced his bid for New York City mayor in January, upending what until then had seemed like a fairly stable Democratic primary field, the favorite candidate for Orthodox Jewish support throughout the five boroughs was, by most accounts, Eric Adams, the brash and outspoken Brooklyn borough president. Adams, a former police captain who is building his campaign around a public safety message amid an uptick in violent crime across the city, has maintained long-standing ties with Orthodox leaders, particularly in Queens as well as Hasidic enclaves of Brooklyn like Borough Park and Crown Heights, a neighborhood he represented as a state senator from 2007 to 2013
admin | June 14, 2021
The religious congregation that purchased the former Pace campus in Briarcliff Manor has yet to divulge its plans, but has been scoping out the site and recently obtained documents from the village with historical details on the property and its buildings. Yeshiva Viznitz Dkhal Torath Chaim, the Monsey-based Hasidic Jewish congregation that obtained the 37-acre parcel in March for $11.75 million, is in initial communication with the village. Everything is in a very preliminary basis of sharing information, Village Manager Philip Zegarelli said
admin | June 14, 2021
The country passed an amendment this week to ban its fashion industry from using fur. The legislation, which goes into effect in six months, would make Israel the first country in the world to do so. Using the skin and fur of wildlife for the fashion industry is immoral and is certainly unnecessary, Gila Gamliel, the countrys environmental protection minister told theJerusalem Post.Animal fur coats cannot cover the brutal murder industry that makes them.
admin | June 1, 2021
A brick shattering a window of a kosher pizzeria on Manhattans Upper East Side. Jewish diners outside a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles attacked by men shouting anti-Semitic threats. Vandalism at synagogues in Arizona, Illinois and New York
admin | May 23, 2021
The victims were hospitalized in an ambulance. Investigators from the Uman District Police Department have launched a criminal probe into an act of hooliganism in which two citizens of Israel who are members of the Hasidic community were wounded in Uman
admin | May 23, 2021
Most American Jews have likely moved on from thinking about the tragedy at Mount Meron on Lag BOmer three weeks ago. But thats not the case for those of us whose family members went to celebrate and instead ended up witnessing a tragedy beyond what anyone could have ever imagined. A couple of days after 45 Jews lost their lives and many others were injured at Mount Meron, I wrote an article about being the mother of a son who was there.
admin | May 23, 2021
By PETER WOLF (re: Dont call me a racist Im not, April 22) This is my response to Alvin Gordons response to my response to Mr. Gordons Point of View did I leave anything out?
admin | May 23, 2021
May 19 (UPI) -- Four sailors have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Navy from forcing them to shave in violation of their religious beliefs.
admin | May 23, 2021
Maybe its because my wife is a therapist. Or maybe its because my favorite religious literature is the writings of Hasidic masters. Both psychology and Hasidic thought aim to understand how our inner thoughts and impulses drive our perceptions of the world
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