admin | May 5, 2020
Controversy erupted on Tuesday night after thousands of people in Brooklyn marched in a funeral procession, in violation of social distancing rules, honoring a late rabbi affiliated with the Satmar sect of Haredi Orthodox Judaism (sometimes referred to as Ultra-Orthodox).
admin | May 5, 2020
Mayor Bill de Blasio personally helped disperse a crowded Hasidic funeral in Williamsburg on Tuesday night, sending thousands of mourners scattering on Bedford Avenue before issuing a stern warning on Twitter to "the Jewish community, and all communities." Something absolutely unacceptable happened in Williamsburg tonite [sic]: a large funeral gathering in the middle of this pandemic, de Blasio wrote.
admin | May 5, 2020
On Tuesday, throngs of Hasidic Jews (specifically Satmar, which is one of many Hasidic sects) gathered to witness the funeral of a deeply respected rabbi from their community who died from COVID-19. Roughly 2,500 people came to the funeral, standing shoulder to shoulder, in violation of the states social-distancing guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Sadly, this was not an isolated incident
admin | May 5, 2020
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a majorstreamingplatform. In 2014, documentarians Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady stumbled upon a small article about the New York City-based organization Footsteps, which assists those looking to leave an ultra-Orthodox religion (including both Hasidic and Haredi groups in the Jewish faith). The filmmakers are well known for their ability to earn the trust of cloistered communities (from the Christian extremists of Jesus Camp to the tight-knit creative denizens of Detropia), and they had long been intrigued by the ultra-Orthodox community that makes up dense pockets of NYC, but had never found a way to crack its insular world.
admin | May 5, 2020
[This briefing has ended. For the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak in the New York area, read Fridays live coverage.] Gov.
admin | May 5, 2020
Photo credit: Anika Molnar/Netflix From ELLE In the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox, audiences witness a transformation. The four-episode series follows the character Esther "Esty" Shapiro (played by Shira Haas), a young woman growing up in the Hasidic Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism, the Satmar group was founded after World War II by Holocaust survivors who believed the Holocaust was punishment for assimilation.
admin | April 26, 2020
The woman who inspired Netflix hit Unorthodox has revealed that she was forced to sell her eggs to make some quick cash after fleeing Williamsburgs Satmar Hasidic community. Writer Deborah Feldman entered an arranged marriage at 17 years old and left the ultra-orthodox Jewish sect when she was 23 with her 3-year-old son in tow
admin | April 26, 2020
Netflixs new limited seriesUnorthodoxis a fantastic new TV show to binge. Based (loosely) on a 2012 memoir authored by Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox is told in four episodes. The critically-acclaimed series is about a girl raised in a Hasidic Jewish community
admin | April 24, 2020
The four-part Netflix series Unorthodox is the latest in a growing mini-industry of books and television programs depicting the inner working of the Hasidic community to an apparently vast market of fascinated observers. It has justly been praised for the attention to detail paid in accurately depicting clothes, haircuts, furniture, Hebrew accents and, in a particularly ground-breaking move, the Yiddish language. Not every detail is perfect, but I a Hasid born and raised was genuinely impressed by details like the plastic-covered rococo chairs, the foil-plastered Pesach kitchen, and the size of the Rebbes gartel that accurately conjured up my world
admin | April 24, 2020
Masbia Soup Kitchen has partnered with Mordy Getz, the owner of Eichlers Judaica Bookstore, to offer free groceries to any Boro Park family which has lost a breadwinner to coronavirus. The novel coronavirus has devastated tight-knit Hasidic communities in New York
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