admin | April 13, 2020
When my mom-friends and I were discussing where to do our Passover shopping last weekend, one sheepishly asked, Is it anti-Semitic for me not to want to go to the kosher supermarket because of coronavirus? Yes, I immediately answered
admin | April 13, 2020
Updated April 09, 2020 09:14:21 If you've had a moment to collect your thoughts and breathe after bingeing the truly wild documentary series Tiger King, you might've noticed another Netflix series that has been trending this week that's also based on a true story. Unorthodox is a four-part German-American miniseries and Netflix's first offering to be told primarily in Yiddish.
admin | April 13, 2020
by Nicole Aboodi | 4/13/20 3:00am Have you ever been invited into a space that feels so uniquely intimate and fragile that you observe it as carefully as possible, hoping to not miss a moment?
admin | April 13, 2020
Haredi society has been struck uniquely hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
admin | April 13, 2020
SIBIU, Romania You can almost hear the children clamoring,their voices filling the room with amelngeof Hungarian, Romanian,Yiddish and Hebrew.You can almost see them, clutching notebooks and climbing the staircase, with its Star of David and menorah motifs, on their way to class. You can almost imagine their Sibiu, their Austria-Hungary, their Romania, their Europethatonce was. But this former Jewish school, located next to the citys sole remaining synagogue, has largely been lost to history.Romanias communists nationalized this building in the 1960s, turning it into an apartment complex and stripping it of any meaningful religiosity.
admin | April 13, 2020
Its quite the side-step from Tiger King, but everyones latest Netflix obsession after bingeing on the lives of Joe Exotic et al - is Unorthodox. If youve not seen it yet, the four-part series is inspired by Deborah Feldmans book, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.
admin | April 10, 2020
ALL THE WORLD is a very narrow bridge. And the main thing to recall is to have no fear, to have no fear at all. Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslevs words are profoundly wise in this time of crisis.
admin | April 8, 2020
The Netflix limited series Unorthodox follows Esty, a young Hasidic woman desperate to flee the only world she has ever known for an uncertain future halfway around the world. Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Williamsburg in a Satmar community a Hasidic sect known for its extreme religious conservatism and rigidly enforced gender roles Esty (Shira Haas) escapes to Berlin, where she befriends a group of conservatory students and attempts to track down her estranged mother. The series flashes back to explain the circumstances that led her to make such a dramatic break with the past: As a sheltered teenager, she is set up in an arranged marriage with Yanky (Amit Rahav), a young man she barely knows, and is expected to start a family almost immediately
admin | April 8, 2020
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Orthodox Jewish community to refrain from holding large religious gatherings, saying on Tuesday that the New York Police Department will do what they need to do to enforce his social distancing regulations. I understand religious gatherings, I understand the Jewish Orthodox community
admin | April 8, 2020
(JTA) The family of a Brooklyn grandfather performed funeral rites for the wrong body due to a mix-up but their upset turned to satisfaction for helping out a stranger with no one to grieve his loss.
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