admin | June 8, 2020
Netflix'sUnorthodoxcenters on the harrowing journey of Esther "Esty" Shapiro, a Hasidic Jewish woman from Williamsburg, New York who tries to escape her community with her unborn child. The show is groundbreaking in many ways, partly due to its topic, which has not been examined much, and its use of Yiddish, a language rarely seen in the arts. RELATED:MBTI: 5 Netflix Original Series That ISTPs Will Love (& 5 They Will Hate) There were several moments in this miniseries that were truly spellbinding, particularly if you did not know much about this type of Orthodox Judaism beforehand
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admin | June 8, 2020
A crowd of police in riot gear marched down Crown Heights Eastern Parkway one day this week to applause and salutes from some of the neighborhoods Haredi residents. Another day, amid another Black Lives Matter protest, a Jewish man with side curls offered the throng in Williamsburg a double thumbs-up. Over on Williamsburghs Bedford and Penn Streets, another Haredi Jew handed out water bottles to protesters and police officers alike
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admin | June 8, 2020
The only thing it wants is targets, a George Mason University Ph.D. candidate in computer science, Adam Elkus, wrote of the coronavirus in March. It does not think, he went on, it does not feel, and it lies totally outside the elaborate social nuances humans have carved out through patterns of communication, representation and discourse.
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admin | June 8, 2020
Practicing social distancing during coronavirus doesn't mean you have to give up TV watch parties with your friends thanks to Netflix Party. USA TODAY The Oscar-winning South Korean film "Parasite" (now streaming on Hulu) is only one example of the beauty and potential of non-English language entertainment. With Netflix's recent global expansion, language barriers no longer seem to be an issue for subscribers, as the streaming platform has added several local-language shows, dubbed intoEnglish or subtitled.From the Danish series "The Rain " to Colombian crime drama "Narcos", the international brand offers an impressively diverse array of options from various nations and cultures.
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admin | June 8, 2020
Ten things fans of the Unorthodox Netflix docu-series may not have known about Deborah Feldman, the author behind the novel on which it's based. Netflix's mesmerizing new miniseries,Unorthodox,is inspired by the bookUnorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots.It is a memoir that details the struggles that Deborah Feldman endured as she separated herself from her Orthodox Jewish community in Williamsburg, New York. While the Netflix show is not entirely faithful to its source material, Deborah Feldman's life isjust as interesting as those of Esther "Esty" Shapiro, the character who represents her inUnorthodox.
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admin | June 8, 2020
'); } else { $(".fotorama-caption").addClass("remove_caption"); } }) .fotorama(); NEW YORK, United States (AP) Long before George Floyd, there was Robert Bandy. Bandy was a black Army soldier shot and wounded in New York City by a white police officer in 1943. Amid rumours that Bandy had been killed, Harlem erupted
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admin | June 1, 2020
On the first day, a white woman made a panicked call to 911, because a black man bird-watching nearby in Central Park politely asked her to leash her dog. On the second day, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was arrested and lynched by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, who pressed his knee into Floyds neck for more than five minutes in response to a complaint that Floyd attempted to use a counterfeit bill at a convenience store. A brave teenager, Darnell Frazier, laid bare the truth of what happened by recording it on video.
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admin | May 31, 2020
For years I felt rejected by my Hasidic neighbors. The pandemic changed all that
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admin | May 30, 2020
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admin | May 30, 2020
In normal times, thousands of mourners likely would have lined the streets of the New York hamlet of Spring Valley for the burial of Josef Neumann, one of five men brutally attacked in December by a machete-wielding man while observing Hanukkah at the home of a local rabbi. But Neumann, 72, died in March, during the coronavirus pandemic.
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