admin | July 4, 2022
On the Shelf 10 July Books For Your Reading List If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your July list.
admin | June 25, 2022
An insular Hasidic Jewish community in upstate New York officially formed their own town when the calendar rolled over to 2019, becoming the states first new town in nearly 40 years, reports said. The former Village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County officially split from Monroe, NY on New Years Day, becoming the Town of Palm Tree, according to The Times Herald-Record
admin | June 25, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) Lufthansa apologized for kicking identifiably Jewish people off a flight from New York City to Budapest last week after some Hasidic individuals on the plane had reportedly not worn masks on the first leg of the flight. Lufthansa said in a statement Tuesday that it regrets the circumstances surrounding the decision to exclude the affected passengers from the flight. The statement also said that the airline was still reviewing the incident and regretted that the large group was denied boarding rather than limiting it to the non-compliant guests
admin | June 25, 2022
TOWN OF WALLKILL - A Satmar Hasidic group is preparing to sell the 17-acre former Crystal Run Village campus it bought three years ago with plans to convert it into a boys school. Sheri Torah, one of three religious school systems for Hasidic students in and around Kiryas Joel, has signed a contract to sell the empty complex on Stony Ford Road for $2.1 million to a Manhattan-based nonprofit that serves children and adults with special needs, according to court papers filed in Orange County this week.
admin | June 25, 2022
As best as I can tell, the puff-sleeve onslaught began in 2018. The clothing designer Batsheva Hays eponymous brand was barely two years old, but her high-necked, ruffle-trimmed, elbow-covering dresses in dense florals and upholstery printsbizarro-world reimaginings of the conservative frocks favored by Hasidic Jewish women and the Amishhad developed a cult following among weird New York fashion-and-art girls
admin | June 25, 2022
Eat to fix the world. Have you ever seen anyone meditating while eating a sandwich or a salad? I didnt think so.
admin | June 25, 2022
Born in Munich, Germany, to Holocaust survivors, Esther Macner regards this as the single most defining moment of her life. Being a child of survivors colors my life, she says. It is the passion and the fire from which I derive my energy
admin | June 25, 2022
Last week, Drake dropped a dancey new album, Honestly, Nevermind, and unless you live under a gigantic rock, you probably heard all about it. He also released a music video for one of his newest songs, Falling Back. In the video, Drizzy marries 23 different women in a wedding ceremony officiated by Toronto rabbi Ari Sitnik, whose small role made a big splash online.
admin | June 21, 2022
A Hasidic man walks through a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Beatrice WeberJune 15, 2022 In September 2019, almost 1,000 days ago, I filed a complaint with New York City and Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem, alleging that my youngest son, who was 6 years old at the time, was not receiving a secular education as required by NYS law. The New York Supreme Court this past week finally confirmed what Ive known all along: The Education Department is not following up on complaints that the Hasidic yeshivas are failing to provide a secular education, but instead is giving parents the runaround. I am a mother of 10 children, six of them boys, all of whom have attended Hasidic yeshivas where they receive six hours of instruction in basic English and math a week at best, for just five of their elementary school years.
admin | June 21, 2022
When Dvora Lapson, the celebrated dancer, choreographer, and Jewish educator, published Dances of the Jewish People, a spiral-backed compendium of steps and directions, in the mid-20th century, little did she imagine that, in America of the 21st, the Hasidic practice of lifting the happy couple aloft in the air would become the thing to do at Jewish weddings, even among those celebrating what used to be called a mixed marriage. Perched precariously on a set of ballroom chairs, whose wobbly legs are held by equally wobbly well-wishers, their faces flush with drink and physical exertion, the newly married bob up and down. Sometimes, they clutch at either end of a hanky or a cloth napkin, waving it merrily about or bridging the distance between the two chairs.
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