admin | June 23, 2017
NYACK - A Nyack Hospital employee is accused of posting offensive comments about Hasidic women on Facebook. Deborah Rosario allegedly accused Hasidic women of not working and hiding behind their religion. She also allegedly said that they shop at Lord & Taylor while her tax dollars pay for their children.
richards | June 22, 2017
Belz is a Hasidic dynasty founded in the town of Belz in Western Ukraine, near the Polish border, historically the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. The Hasidut was founded in the early 19th century by Rabbi Shalom Rokeach, also known as the Sar Shalom, and led by his son, Rabbi Yehoshua Rokeach, and grandson, Rabbi Yissachar Dov, and great grandson, Rabbi Aharon, before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. While Rabbi Aharon managed to escape Europe, most of the Belz Hasidim were killed.
simmons | June 21, 2017
Email a copy of "New Book Explores and Preserves Hasidic Musical Heritage" to a friend Jewish worshippers at the Breslov Hasidic synagogue in Safed. Photo: Yaakov Naumi / Flash90
richards | June 21, 2017
Getty Iran generated headlines around the world last week and sparked a vicious backlash after its government did the unthinkable: they made Zumba illegal. But, as Haaretz points out, the Muslim clerics who hope to purge Iran of Zumba and any harmonious movement or body-shaking instruction might find sympathy among their sworn enemies: ultra-Orthodox rabbis
richards | June 19, 2017
By Rabbi Jack Riemer/JNS.org You dont need to be a scholar of Jewish music to enjoy Velvel Pasternaks new book, Behind the Music: Stories, Anecdotes, Articles & Reflections.
richards | June 17, 2017
Stein was born in Brooklyn and brought up in a Hasidic Jewish community, a conservative Jewish sect that shuns the modern world.
simmons | June 12, 2017
Getty Images Barclays Center (JTA) An estimated 15,000 to 20,000 anti-Zionist haredi Orthodox Jews protested in New York against the conscription of haredi yeshiva students and the arrest of draft dodgers.
simmons | June 9, 2017
https://traffic.libsyn.com/telavivreview/TAR_9-6-17_WEB.mp3 Subscribe To The Podcast Previous Episodes Shulem Deen was raised in an ultra-orthodox sect, the Skverers, considered too extreme even for other Hasidic Jews. He grew up speaking Yiddish in the middle of New York, married in his teens and had five children. Then everything began to change
admin | June 8, 2017
God tells Moses: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. (Leviticus 19:2) This verse clearly sounds like a command; but some leading scholars believe that it is not a commandment for itself. It is, rather, the mission statement of the Jewish faith.
richards | June 8, 2017
When Sarah left the ultra-Orthodox Jewish faith, she became embroiled in a custody battle over her 11-year-old daughter. Her family still in the community refused her access to the girl for several months, she says. Its the most heartbreaking thing to not be able to contact your own child and see if shes okay, to see if shes happy, just nothing zero contact, she told RT
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