He's the most popular Hasidic singer—he calls himself the Hasidic Lady Gaga.
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Ms. Ferencz, her husband and their three children were among the first Hasidic Jews to relocate to Jersey City from the large Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, several years ago, Hasidic leaders said.
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The growth of the Hasidic population has sparked fears among non-Hasidic residents that the newcomers will change the character of existing towns.
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After all, most Hasidic Jews would not attend even a tame secular play, much less one with forbidden themes and scenes involving Hasidic characters, they said.
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Roving bands of black youths had attacked Hasidic Jews, killing one, after a car driven by another Hasidic man had accidentally struck and killed a black child.
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In the Jerusalem mayor's race this year, for example, Yossi Daitch, a Hasidic candidate, ran with the backing of the Hasidic party Agudat Yisrael, or Union of Israel.
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" - Jonathan, 33 "Hasidic man made 'eat pussy' sign.
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"Whatever you see, it&aposs not really what people are feeling," said a Hasidic man from Kiryas Joel, an almost entirely Satmar Hasidic community that is one of the strictest.
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Terrell-Paige's comment underscored the divide between the local Hasidic and black communities, as she alleged that members of the Hasidic community were pushing black residents out of their neighborhoods.
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Some Hasidic leaders publicly criticized several of the Jewish organizers, who they say do not support the deeply conservative Hasidic practices, underscoring tensions that exist within the wider Jewish community.
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According to a 2011 study by the UJA-Federation of New York, the Jewish philanthropic organization, just 11 percent of Hasidic men and 6 percent of Hasidic women in and around New York City hold bachelor's degrees, while the poverty rate among Hasidic households stands at 43 percent, nearly twice the figure citywide.
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I could've continued on to a non-Hasidic school (my parents were open to that), but I was very devout when I was younger and wanted to continue with Hasidic schooling.
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Read These Stories Next: Rachel Weisz's Uncontainable Glow Gave Away Her Pregnancy How I Left My Hasidic Jewish Community & Found My Sexuality One Of Us Lets A Former Hasidic Woman Speak For Herself
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Shulem Deen left the Hasidic Jewish community a decade ago.
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While the Hasidic community is reeling, it is also resilient.
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According to a report by Yaffed, or Young Advocates for Fair Education, an organization that advocates for improved general studies in Hasidic yeshivas, an estimated 59 percent of Hasidic households are poor or near-poor.
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"I've done some bloodplay with Hasidic clients," Mistress Rose told me.
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How did you first discover the Hasidic community in Borough Park?
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"We were fighting all the time" when he challenged Hasidic tenets.
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It's run by Hasidic Jews who are amazing and so helpful.
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Her family and the Hasidic community are telling a different story.
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The eulogy was an unusual public act for a Hasidic woman.
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Whatever we consider important traditional Hasidic values, I didn't let go.
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His father, Rabbi Yehuda Yechiel Taub, was a prominent Hasidic leader.
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Ferencz and Deustch were reportedly members of the Hasidic Jewish community.
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Most of the people who attended the party were Hasidic Jews.
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I'm taken aback that this strict Hasidic woman wants me to.
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A Hasidic woman was heckled when she boarded a public bus.
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Join the Hasidic community for early morning prayer and sun worship.
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Alexander Rapaport, who runs soup kitchens in Brooklyn and Queens and often serves as an informal guide for reporters to the insular Hasidic communities, said the number of Hasidic businesses that were reliant on Amazon was surging.
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"He is dressed in Hasidic garb," Chief Boyce said of the victim.
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I compare it for New Yorkers to Williamsburg and the Hasidic Jews.
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My Hasidic high school closed down when I was entering tenth grade.
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Why did you decide to make a film about the Hasidic community?
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By leaving the Hasidic community, I lost virtually everything I'd ever known.
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Yeshiva expulsion – virtual excommunication - would bring intense shame to a Hasidic family.
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Hasidic men, she explained, go to synagogue, to Torah study, to work.
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His "Yasis Alayich" ("Rejoice Over Thee") is played at most Hasidic weddings.
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Some Hasidic parents also blame the absence of science education in yeshivas.
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Mr. Friedman is a Hasidic yeshiva graduate and a father of three.
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Moshe Friedman is a Hasidic yeshiva graduate and a father of three.
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Mr. Resnick frowned, thinking of the Hasidic synagogue just up the road.
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In that instant, a bustling Hasidic neighborhood turned into a war zone.
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We go back to find out why the Hasidic Jews are there.
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Eleven years ago, she became one of the first Hasidic female lawyers in Brooklyn, and last November, she was elected as a judge to civil court, making her almost certainly the first female Hasidic elected official in the country.
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The ultra-Orthodox sects have typically wielded political power by voting as a bloc and by uniting across internal rifts — Hasidic and non-Hasidic, Ashkenazi and Sephardic — to deliver the biggest possible numbers for their candidates and their allies.
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In 2017, Mr. Fried sold the still undeveloped lot to the Greens at Chester, which is owned, at least in part, by Hasidic Jews from Kiryas Joel, a nearby community made up mostly of ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic Jews.
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Check. To help you tackle the particularities of life as a Hasidic Jew?
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"Menashe" is such a film, and the Hasidic community is such a world.
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Orthodox leaders outside the Hasidic enclaves have defended the consequences that schools impose.
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Chaim Schlaff was born and raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in London.
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So instead, the Hasidic hackers hardwired the phone signal into a sound system.
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I am a proud emissary of Chabad-Lubavitch, a movement of Hasidic Judaism.
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There is the Hasidic tradition, with its Zenlike parables and wisdom-working rabbis.
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A decade ago, he left the Hasidic community and is now a writer.
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I was raised in New York's Hasidic community and educated in its schools.
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One Hasidic passer-by, Mordechai Leiby, said the siren served a valuable function.
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Attendees were members of Monsey's Hasidic Jewish community, a subgroup of Orthodox Judaism.
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"God of Vengeance" is the professional stage debut for the five Hasidic exiles.
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The second case stemmed from four days of violence in 1991 in the Crown Heights neighborhood, where bands of black youths attacked Hasidic residents after a car driven by a Hasidic man accidentally struck and killed a black child, Gavin Cato.
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Non-believing Mormons, Hasidic Jews and evangelical Christians find themselves in a similar predicament.
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Hasidic rabbis point to the many men who wear fur hats on the Sabbath.
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"It's now the thing," said Mr. Heilman, an expert on Orthodox and Hasidic communities.
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Rabbis also objected, noting that many Hasidic men wear fur hats on the Sabbath.
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I am not talking about the measles spreading throughout our Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
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The Hasidic community is strong, and as I've said once before, it is resilient.
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"I also have a huge client base out in the Hasidic community," he said.
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Op-Ed Contributor Mr. Deen was raised in a Hasidic family in New York.
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But when it comes to Hasidic yeshivas, this law has gone unenforced for decades.
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The two Orthodox schools chosen for Ms. DeVos's visit were not Hasidic schools, however.
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"Tens of thousands of Hasidic children are being denied a basic education," it said.
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They parked across from the kosher market, which served the area's growing Hasidic community.
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And relatives would be further offended knowing that the actors had grown up Hasidic.
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With members of the New Yiddish Rep almost all over 50, the company has been challenged by the decline of Yiddish, except in Hasidic strongholds in Brooklyn and some suburban pockets — populations that Hasidic guidelines generally forbid to participate in secular theater.
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" Abraham argues that whatever the government allows in benefits, Hasidic families are "doing it legitimately.
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Even those who have left take pains to note the positive aspects of Hasidic communities.
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PART 1 : INSULAR HASIDIC JEWS STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE CUSTOMS AS LEGAL AND SOCIAL PRESSURES BUILD
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Accordingly, the Hasidic world shuts out others, shunning secular influence and creating tightly insular communities.
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More than half of all voters will be Hasidic by 2021, according to one estimate.
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But the total did not include scores of Hasidic newcomers whose residency had been challenged.
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In Williamsburg's Hasidic community, the Road Runners purposely do not put any music or bands.
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The Hasidic community in New York has grappled with epidemic illness in the recent past.
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The arrival of dozens of Hasidic Jews to the predominantly black neighborhood came with tensions.
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But Hasidic sects and ultra-Orthodox Jews prefer to see certifications from their own tribes.
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She stunned her family and friends by leaving her Hasidic community to seek more opportunity.
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All victims were Hasidic, and two of them were in critical condition, the organization said.
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But Orthodox and Hasidic Jews asked the Israeli volunteer group ZAKA to look for more remains.
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There are a myriad of ways that the Hasidic community puts a stranglehold on its people.
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The attackers were dressed as Hasidic Jews, said a law enforcement source briefed by Israeli officials.
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The attackers were dressed as Hasidic Jews, a law enforcement source briefed by Israeli officials said.
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The directors of Jesus Camp and Detropia offer an in-depth look at Brooklyn's Hasidic community.
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"A Taoist (me) gives up his seat so a Hasidic couple could sit together," he wrote.
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In 2013, a Hasidic probationary officer won a lawsuit against the department over the same policy.
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This spiritual nomad meets in this "capital of chameleons" Hasidic Jewish, Croatian, Kurdish and African neighbours.
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Part of the growth is driven by Hasidic custom: women marry young and have big families.
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Hay, a former lawyer, draws inspiration from the modest clothing of Amish, Victorian, and Hasidic women.
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In 2000, a Hasidic woman in Montreal ran for a local City Council seat and won.
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Around that time, the area was racked by racial tension between black and Hasidic Jewish residents.
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The other experience was with a New Age-y, slightly neo-Hasidic, experimental, post-denominational congregation.
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But the only people who are going to know that are going to be Hasidic Jews.
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I had tracked down three elderly Hasidic women in Brooklyn who had grown up in Hungary.
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Chesky Deutsch, a Hasidic Jew and a community activist, spoke with a shooting victim by phone.
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Hasidic community leaders on Wednesday morning identified the two members of their community who were killed.
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All five Hasidic Jewish victims were taken to local hospitals, and two are in critical condition.
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Over the past decade, there have been a spate of sexual-abuse cases within Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn and in Hasidic communities like this one — a square mile collection of large boxy houses with a population of more than 23,000, half of whom are under age 13.
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In 2013, a Hasidic Jewish probationary officer won a lawsuit against the department over the same policy.
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Here we have [Hasidic Jews] who are legal, pay taxes, were born here, so what's the problem?
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Three Hasidic Jews who left the community reveal why they made the decision to cut their ties.
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In Brooklyn, for instance, posters blamed "mothers with smartphones" for teens who have strayed from Hasidic life.
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At 17, as is customary in the Hasidic community, a marriage was arranged and she became engaged.
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For example, Alexander explains, the Hasidic world and the Haredi world have very specific rules about education.
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A majority Hasidic Jewish community in the Williamsburg neighborhood is suing the city over de Blasio's order.
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The scene was tense, as we walked painstakingly slowly through throngs of staring Hasidic children in Brooklyn.
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Hasidic Williamsburg suffers alarming rates of childhood lead poisoning, ranking as the riskiest spot Reuters found citywide.
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Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn and nearby Rockland County have been at the center of the measles outbreak.
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That violated the terms of her religious divorce agreement, which required her to raise the children Hasidic.
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He achieved fame and adulation, but like the warrior monk or the Hasidic master, he sought perfection.
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A group of Hasidic men attacked Mr. Patterson, a black student, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
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Chesky Deutsch, a community activist in the Hasidic community, would agonize over how to soothe frayed emotions.
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A young Hasidic scholar who'd had nothing to do with it was stabbed to death in revenge.
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At least two of those killed were members of Jersey City's Hasidic community, according to news reports.
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Joshua Z. Weinstein, the director, shot the film in Yiddish and often in secret in Hasidic neighborhoods.
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The third Tuesday in March coincides with the anniversary of the death of an obscure Hasidic rabbi.
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This preceded another assault Monday, when twin Hasidic Jewish boys were reportedly punched in their apartment building.
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The outbreak in Rockland County has been traced to an annual Hasidic pilgrimage from Israel to Ukraine.
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Video Watch: Community in Conflict: Hasidic Jews & Education Kobre, who is not Hasidic, told Fox News in a recent interview that quite simply, to Orthodox Jews, there is no need to surf the Internet or explore a marketplace of ideas, because the truth is right there in the Torah.
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Kiryas Joel was founded in the 1970s by Joel Teitelbaum, the grand rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic sect.
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For 20 years, the center has blocked off female-only hours to accommodate the area's large Hasidic population.
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Well, there's not much of that during Mile 213, which passes through the Hasidic Jewish enclave of Williamsburg.
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" The marathon, Robbins writes, runs "counter to the Hasidic community's strict interpretation of the commandment of tznuit, modesty.
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Lev Tahor, which translates to "pure heart" in Hebrew, is an offshoot of an anti-Zionist Hasidic sect.
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There are about 83 Hasidic yeshivas in New York City, with the remaining 38 spread throughout the state.
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With all the competition on Amazon, Hasidic Jews are learning to game the system and its algorithms. Mrs.
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The Hasidic community is one where everyone knows everyone, and where one person's woe is the community's affliction.
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Leaders of the Satmar Hasidic sect, which has its urban base in the Williamsburg neighborhood, endorsed Mrs. Clinton.
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Agnon's prose recalls the style and the archetypes of the Bible, the Talmud, medieval commentators, and Hasidic folktales.
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Three of the Hasidic men gave chase and, within minutes, prosecutors said, a larger group confronted Mr. Patterson.
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Considering these travails, it is surprising that she chose a Hasidic life, rather than being born to one.
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Maybe that's because Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn don't register for these activists as prototypical victims of violent prejudice.
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"They did it to themselves," Ms. Wingate said, referring to the Hasidic people who have refused to vaccinate.
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ZAKA's project leader, Ilan Berkovich, said the project would go on unless the Orthodox and Hasidic communities said otherwise.
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Walk around New York City for a day and you're likely to encounter a member of the Hasidic community.
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Growing up in a highly insular Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, I had little knowledge of secular culture.
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Watch: Community in Conflict: Hasidic Jews & Backlash Video She went to the meeting with the Vaad with her husband.
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In many Hasidic enclaves, such as this one in Brooklyn, signs warning about smartphones and the Internet are common.
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Our journey along Bedford Avenue continues northward out of Hasidic Williamsburg through Puerto Rican Williamsburg and into hip Williamsburg.
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Hasidic community, none have bothered with Yiddish, usually preferring to have their characters speak in English, often with accents.
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Henny Kupferstein, a former Hasidic Jew, told me she was raised with very strict rules about cutting her nails.
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An outwardly tetchy Caribbean lady helps a Hasidic Jewish woman choose the perfect pear, carefully sizing each one up.
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Shortly afterward, she married a Hasidic man, David Freier, and became a legal secretary to support his Judaic studies.
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He liked to point out that Hasidic and other Jewish music is subject to influences from the surrounding culture.
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Three FBI agents were also attending services, masquerading as Hasidic Jews in order to arrest Shorr and the Fleischers.
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But when it comes to doing business, Hasidic Jews have become enamored with a distinctly 21st-century company: Amazon.
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And if we have any chance at beating it, we must do it together -- standing beside our Hasidic brethren.
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There were discussions on sidewalks and over backyard fences about dog ownership — unfamiliar to Hasidic families — and child rearing.
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Two Hasidic Jews were killed in a shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, last month.
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Growing up in a very conservative Hasidic community, Mr. Fishman read only religious texts and spoke nothing but Yiddish.
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Jacob Desser, 25, a Hasidic Jew, said he was attending the rally as a result of the recent attacks.
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Levovitz is the founder of Jewish Queer Youth, an nonprofit serving LGBTQ+ youth from Orthodox, Hasidic, and Sephardic homes.
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Some denominations, such as the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, sharply decry the practice and do not charge for admission.
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"You can eat it anytime," Chiya Yosopov, owner of the snug Noribar at the corner of 13th Avenue and 54th Street in Borough Park, said as he scribbled down takeout orders through a telephone headset and from groups of bewigged Hasidic women and bearded Hasidic men with ritual fringes hanging below their shirts.
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Hundreds of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims flock annually to Mád to visit the Baroque synagogue and the newly restored rabbi's house.
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And he says, 'I'm not gonna ask that guy, am I?' then points out his windshield to a Hasidic man.
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The discovery has opened old wounds for New York's Hasidic community, which was rocked by Leiby's kidnapping and gruesome killing.
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It's one of the poorest towns in America—all Skverer Jews, one of the most extreme sects of Hasidic Jews.
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I was walking through a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn with another parent I'd just met at a child's birthday party.
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All this, while Hasidic households with very modest incomes collect millions in federal benefits, often because of large family sizes.
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"The Hasidic community is the canary in the coal mine of [the issue of] religious freedom in America," he said.
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Of the more than a dozen Hasidic rabbis and yeshiva officials Fox News reached out to for comment, none responded.
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The filmmakers also follow Luzer, a former member of the Hasidic community who is now an actor in Los Angeles.
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These notes were not defiant in any meaningful way, but would almost certainly have raised some flags with Hasidic elders.
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In 2000, a mob angry over the murder of an elderly Hasidic man stormed the station house demanding better protection.
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The stabbing highlights the violence facing many Hasidic Jews, whose Judaism is often made visible by their clothing and hair.
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The victims were all Hasidic Jews and were sent to local hospitals, according to the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
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And I have written about the injustices within my community of birth and other Hasidic communities, and my journey out.
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In Crown Heights, where the Lubavitch Hasidic community is centered, some election districts also showed a majority of Trump votes.
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The leadership of the Hasidic community argues that the issue is exaggerated, an attempt by outsiders to malign their community.
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Some in the Hasidic community, an important voting bloc in New York, called on lawmakers to revisit the bail law.
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The victims are Hasidic Jews, the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley Region said in a tweet.
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Lately, she has found herself among other Hasidic exiles, speaking Yiddish and struggling with the strict rules of Orthodox Judaism.
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The victims of the attack in Monsey, which is about 35 miles from New York City, were all Hasidic Jews.
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The epicenter of the measles outbreak is only miles away from the Brooklyn Museum in the Hasidic-Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg.
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You have your more religious bungalow colonies and your less religious bungalow colonies, your Hasidic bungalow colonies and your Sephardic ones.
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For example, there are several yeshivas, or Hasidic Jewish schools, in the New York area that only teach subjects in Yiddish.
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New York City's Hasidic community—which votes in blocks and is therefore politically powerful—is often left to its own devices.
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The two wanted to keep in touch after camp, but Leah and Sara lived in two different Hasidic enclaves in Brooklyn.
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According to many Hasidic voters and political commentators, Trump has sparked an undeniable interest in parts of this culturally isolated world.
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Popular in certain Orthodox and Hasidic sects, upsherin involves waiting until a boy turns three before he gets his first haircut.
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IN WILLIAMSBURG, an eclectic neighbourhood in Brooklyn, the bathing times at a public swimming pool are dividing hipsters from Hasidic Jews.
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The pool has no male-only hours, and some Hasidic men swim during the hours that are open to all genders.
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Since klezmer music, as Mr. Statman explained, is "really Hasidic vocal music played instrumentally," Rabbi Shenker's tunes also influenced klezmer performers.
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"For Hasidim, Yiddish is not about culture; it's about using language in a utilitarian way," Mr. Rapaport, the Hasidic translator said.
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An advocacy group called Young Advocates for Fair Education charged that Hasidic boys are being trapped in a cycle of poverty.
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Yet the tone of the debates over growth in some areas where Hasidic families have been moving has been more intense.
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It permits Hasidic sellers to deal with the public invisibly — almost entirely by mail, by email or through package-delivery firms.
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Hasidic leaders and their supporters complained that the response to the violence by City Hall and the police had been inadequate.
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When she had her last baby, Gitti said, her Hasidic neighbors pitched in, taking care of her children and preparing meals.
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Ten years ago, at age 33, I left the Hasidic community and sought to make my way in the secular world.
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And since Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox families typically have six, seven or more children, that's a lot of grape juice.
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The two attackers killed a police officer, a market employee and two Hasidic Jews before being shot dead by the police.
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Abe often helps register members of the Hasidic community to vote, and Brooklyn politicians tweeted their condolences about his son's death.
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The stabbing victims were Hasidic Jews, the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley Region said in a tweet.
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Once he had reconstituted his Hasidic tribe in Israel, Rabbi Taub devoted himself to exhorting the Hasidic world and those outside it to remember the approximately six million Jews killed by the Nazi regime during World War II. "He was the ultimate Holocaust survivor," Rabbi Boruch Oberlander, chief of the Orthodox rabbinate in Budapest, said in a telephone interview.
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This unusual mix has proved immensely popular: Mr Schmeltzer has released over ten albums and is known as the "Hasidic Lady Gaga".
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The Hasidic officer, Fishel Litzman, was allowed to return to work with a beard of around 1 inch, according to Syed's lawyer.
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Related: Why Some Hasidic Jews Are Loving Donald Trump's Campaign Lewandowski also questioned Fields' account of being beaten at the Occupy protest.
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One of VanArsdale's more recent clients is a Hasidic Jew who broke from his religious community in order to explore his sexuality.
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It is, by choice, an intensely isolated and insular group, in which a Hasidic family with 10 children doesn't raise an eyebrow.
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Stein was born in Brooklyn and brought up in a Hasidic Jewish community, a conservative Jewish sect that shuns the modern world.
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That decision was put on hold after Dov Hikind, an assemblyman representing another Brooklyn neighbourhood with large numbers of Hasidic Jews, complained.
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The imaginings by my tormentors of me as an Orthodox Jew in wide-brimmed hat and Hasidic garb were, of course, laughable.
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"Who is really controlling the Borough Park police station?" asked Joe Levin, a Hasidic private investigator who has clashed with the shomrim.
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All around me the Hasidic women bobbed, chatted and did water aerobics with pool noodles, and I didn't ask them a thing.
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Betrothed to the son of a wealthy family, a young Hasidic woman, Leah, becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead lover.
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Concern over the spread of coronavirus in Hasidic communities had already been raised by a series of large weddings held this week.
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He studied at a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944, when the Germans occupied Hungary and deported tens of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz.
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He studied at a Hasidic yeshiva until 1944, when the Germans occupied Hungary and deported tens of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz.
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We have a lot of Hasidic neighbors, and there's one family down the streets with kids who had never touched a dog.
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Vacant homes nearby have been bought for Hasidic tenants, while a boys' yeshiva, a ritual bath and a kosher store have opened.
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The probe also looked into the possibility that pardons for some Hasidic Jews were linked to donations to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.
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Since then, the number of speakers has dropped to several hundred thousand — mostly ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews and a few devoted Yiddishists.
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Helped by the music and video producer Daniel Finkelman and other members of the Hasidic world, Mr. Weinstein worked to establish contacts.
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The group, also known as Yaffed, has accused it of stalling to avoid alienating Hasidic leaders who control important blocs of votes.
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Moishe Ferencz owns the supermarket, a symbol of the growing Hasidic community in this northeastern New Jersey city of just under 300,000.
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There, things proceeded like a Hasidic People's Court, with the judges — three rabbis — dressed in traditional all-black garb, facing the litigants.
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Two of the victims found in the market — Moshe Deutsch, 24, and Mindy Ferencz, 31 — were part of the local Hasidic community.
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About five years ago, she and her husband were among the first Hasidic Jews to relocate to Jersey City from Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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But most inmates are Jewish — many of them orthodox and Hasidic — and many are doctors, lawyers, accountants and businessmen who committed fraud.
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Just outside the public library where Mr. de Blasio held his news conference, some Hasidic mothers raised concerns about the emergency declaration.
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Franck Allais drew controversy for installing a yield sign with the silhouette of a Hasidic man in an ultra-Orthodox London neighborhood.
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When we pull up to the lodge, there are five Hasidic Jews, straight decked out and holding up huge signs out front.
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The site, which also contains the nearly 22018-year-old grave of a prominent Hasidic rabbi, Mordechai Twersky, currently houses around 2100 people.
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A few years ago, a slick pamphlet called "The Vaccine Safety Handbook: An Informed Parent's Guide" became ubiquitous in Hasidic enclaves of Brooklyn.
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The film is about a Hasidic father who, due to religious tradition, loses custody of his son after the death of his wife.
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The film follows the journey of three people — two men, one woman — in the various stages of leaving their Hasidic community in Brooklyn.
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Women in ankle-length skirts push strollers on crowded sidewalks and Hasidic boys with spiraling side curls dart through the streets in bunches.
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It was at that moment, years ago, when Yoni and I knew we were going to make a film about the Hasidic community.
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Ewing and Grady recognize that much of the Hasidic community's control over its members stems from the strict mandates regarding appearance and dress.
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In these schools, the classes mixed boys and girls together, one of many ways being Modern Orthodox differs from being ultra-Orthodox/Hasidic.
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In one, a Hasidic bride, in a veil that obscures her face, is flanked by women in high-necked dresses and head scarves.
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Early in the morning, he said, while walking home alone, he was set upon by a group of 15 or 20 Hasidic Jews.
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The worst spot – with recent rates nearly triple Flint's – was in a Hasidic Jewish area with the city's highest concentration of small children.
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" On the day of the primary, the first poll results showed her losing a Hasidic neighborhood, "something like 200 to 1,'' she said.
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But Mark Abramson, who spent this Purim taking photographs in two very different Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn, said he also experienced something deeper.
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Mr. Getz said the weddings were influenced by the teachings of "extremist leaders" and did not represent the Hasidic community in New York.
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Proposed fur ban: A bill to ban fur sales has polarized New Yorkers, pitting animal rights activists against black pastors and Hasidic leaders.
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After the meeting, anti-vaccine organizers sent a robocall to Hasidic homes, urging people to persuade their rabbis not to support the measure.
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Starring Israeli actress Shira Haas, the show is loosely based on Deborah Feldman's 2012 memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.
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In 2015, the mayor eased rules on a circumcision ritual that was infecting some Hasidic babies with herpes, though he eventually changed course.
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Amazon has also opened the door for many Hasidic women whose time is consumed taking care of their large families to become entrepreneurs.
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Frimet Goldberger is an award-winning journalist who frequently writes about the Hasidic community, why she left and how to better understand it.
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The comment came after a shooting at a kosher market in Jersey City claimed four lives, including two members of the Hasidic community.
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But the families from Hasidic sects based in Brooklyn say the mostly black residents of the neighborhood welcomed them when they settled in.
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With adequate homes hard to come by in Lakewood, Orthodox and Hasidic families have been buying properties in nearby Toms River and Jackson.
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She and Chaya both said they had to lean on their Hasidic neighbors because they no longer lived among parents, siblings and cousins.
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In the attack in November, a Hasidic Jewish man was stabbed and slashed as he walked to synagogue in a New York suburb.
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They drove about a mile, stopping in a Hasidic neighborhood where dozens of young ultra-Orthodox families have relocated to in recent years.
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He wore an eighteenth-century tricorne, a deerstalker, a round Hasidic kolpik, an Afghan pakol with a peacock feather tucked into its folds.
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In the Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, some customers noticed the absence of the usual Latino immigrant employees at their local stores.
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The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley region tweeted that five patients — all Hasidic — had been taken to local hospitals.
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The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley region said all of the victims targeted in the attack were Hasidic Jews.
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Malmo's sole Hasidic rabbi has reported being the victim of more than 100 incidents of hostility ranging from hate speech to physical assault.
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But Hasidic Jews are prey to the same misinformation that has affected others, and some ultra-Orthodox rabbis have come out against vaccines.
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A group called Parents Educating and Advocating for Children's Health, or Peach, has also released an anti-vaccination handbook directed at Hasidic Jews.
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The three subjects of One of Us are at different points in their journey away from Hasidic Judaism when we first meet them.
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Cato was black, the car was driven by Hasidic Jews, and the crash set off three days of riots in Crown Heights, pitting the neighborhood's Hasidic population against its African American and Caribbean residents — a culmination of long-simmering suspicions that Jewish residents had reserved preferential treatment from the city in many areas, from housing to medical services to police protection.
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He added that his client was being blamed for the actions of other Hasidic men because "they all appear and look the same," suggesting at one point that the DNA identified as belonging to Mr. Herskovic could have come from another Hasidic man, because people who are part of the "same substructure of the culture" could have similar DNA profiles.
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Bindell, who now lives with her daughter in Venice, California, isn't Hasidic anymore, but she appreciates the void that immersive, communal practice once filled.
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They realized they had a precious jewel of comedy in their hands and they responded like a 47th st Hasidic appraiser with a mamezitser.
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"For those who were born and bred into the Hasidic community and never questioned the basic tenets or oppressive lifestyle, it works," Goldberger said.
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For more than 22.5 years, Williamsburg has been home to Hasidic Jews, many descended from Eastern Europeans who settled there after surviving the Holocaust.
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For more than 70 years, Williamsburg has been home to Hasidic Jews, many descended from Eastern Europeans who settled there after surviving the Holocaust.
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His mother, the former Sarah Feig, and his maternal grandfather, Dodye Feig, a Viznitz Hasid, filled his imagination with mystical tales of Hasidic masters.
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Adhering to the strictest interpretation of Jewish law, the Hasidic man did not want to sit beside a woman who was not his wife.
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The daughters, each of whom is married to a rabbi with distinguished Hasidic pedigree, are Tziporah, Malka Chana, Hinda, Chava Reizel, Golda and Bracha.
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He is venerated by large sects like the Satmar and Viznitz Hasidim as the spiritual leader who established Hasidic culture and philosophy in Hungary.
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Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization for Hasidic groups, released a statement reinforcing that Orthodox rabbis and leaders are in favor of vaccination.
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Critic's Pick A young Hasidic woman's flight from her marriage and community makes for a modern-day period piece with a striking star performance.
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Critic's Pick A young Hasidic woman's flight from her marriage and community makes for a modern-day period piece with a striking star performance.
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Tens of thousands of Hasidic men crammed the thoroughfares of Borough Park, Brooklyn, for the funeral for Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, a revered Orthodox rabbi.
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He pulled out two knee-length dresses with high necks, more modest versions of racier cuts, that are best-sellers with his Hasidic customers.
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The number of children in Hasidic schools grew more rapidly than any other group, more than doubling between 1998 and 2013, the census found.
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An attacker wielding a machete wounded five Jewish individuals gathering in the home of a Hasidic rabbi to light candles at around 10 p.m.
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The alleged attacker entered Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg's home before stabbing five Hasidic Jews as they lit the candle for the seventh night of Hanukkah.
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Set in a Hasidic neighborhood in Borough Park, Brooklyn, the story finds the title character (played by Menashe Lustig) working in a small supermarket.
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The town has fought proposed development at the site since 1985, when Wilbur Fried, a non-Hasidic developer, first sought to build houses there.
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The five people injured inside the rabbi's home were all Hasidic Jews, the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley Region said.
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As a Hasidic Jew, she spent her childhood with eight siblings in the Yiddish-speaking and largely insular Satmar sect in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
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Since then, the developers have claimed that town and county officials explicitly said they do not want Hasidic families to move into the community.
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For decades, this community of Hasidic Jews, about 21.9 miles northwest of New York City, lived an existence that was insular, but also expansive.
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Hyperallergic was not able to confirm if any were Hasidic — the sect to which B&H's owners and many of its Jewish employees belong.
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Etty isn't the only one of the subjects whose movement away from the Hasidic community comes with the steep cost of losing her family.
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Tel Aviv attack Two Palestinians, dressed as Hasidic Jews, opened fire in an upscale market in Tel Aviv, killing four Israelis and wounding several others.
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Jacobson, however, pointed to a flier he alleged was photoshopped by Infowars staff to show his face on the body of a Hasidic Jewish man.
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New York (CNN)As one of the holiest Jewish celebrations of the year arrives, families in the Hasidic section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, face a dilemma.
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A sign at the entrance of the Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel in New York informs visitors of the dress code and gender separation rules.
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Hasidic communities&apos tech limitations are not just in small towns like Kiryas Joel and New Square that are situated far from big cities, though.
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In December about 10 Hasidic women, mostly in their twenties and thirties, sat in tiny orange chairs in a kindergarten classroom in a local school.
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Ms. Weinstein had been a member of the Hasidic sect known as Gur, Israel's largest, and she came from a distinguished family within the community.
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I remember seeing conservative Hasidic Jewish men lining the perimeters of the parade route, holding signs that simply said "בושה" (shame, disgrace) in huge letters.
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In Borough Park, for instance, the consistently high birthrate can be partially attributed to the large Hasidic community, whose members tend to have more children.
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Born Gusta Wolf to a Hasidic family, Ms. Berlinski has fond memories of growing up in Oswiecim, where about half the 12,000 residents were Jewish.
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I quickly made a mental note to not try to feed it at his house again; this isn't how the Hasidic Jews do things. Ha!
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Moshe Friedman, a Hasidic yeshiva graduate and father, argues in an Op-Ed essay that much of his community's anti-vaccination sentiment stems from disinformation.
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Prosecutors blamed the attack on the Shomrim, a Hasidic group that patrols Williamsburg, a neighborhood where tensions between orthodox Jews and blacks have long simmered.
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"My Hasidic sons are 22011 and 22004 years old, but they cannot read or write English past a second-grade level," states this Opinion writer.
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Born in Krakow, Rosa was almost the sole survivor of her father's Hasidic family, escaping Auschwitz and coming to America in a children's transport program.
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Some state politicians were facing pressure from their Orthodox Jewish constituents who considered the probe an attack on religious liberty and the broader Hasidic community.
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A Satmar Hasidic man is seen loading a grocery cart full of saran-wrapped sandwiches and other food items onto a checkout counter's conveyor belt.
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It was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Award and joined her earlier book, "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust," as among her major contributions.
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Those who died at the kosher supermarket in Jersey City included a Hasidic woman who was its co-owner, a worker and a rabbinical student.
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In recent years, education activists, among them former Hasidic yeshiva graduates, have pushed aggressively to bring the yeshivas into compliance with the state's education laws.
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I do not have custody of them — I lost it when I left the Hasidic world, and so I have no control over their education.
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A woman holds candles in Brooklyn in solidarity with the victims of an attack on a Hasidic rabbi's home in Monsey, New York, Dec. 28.
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The ultra-Orthodox population has surged in recent years as Hasidic families from Queens and Brooklyn, priced out of their neighborhoods, moved to the suburbs.
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But perhaps nothing compares to a kosher pizza war, pitting 21st-century foodie-ism against the decidedly 19th-century world of an insular Hasidic neighborhood.
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A Hasidic man convicted of gang assault in the beating of a black student in Brooklyn was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison.
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Four blocks away from the Gretsch, on the edge of a Hasidic Orthodox enclave sits an 2475-story former pasta factory known as 2475 Kent.
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A mass stabbing at the home of a Hasidic rabbi in Monsey, N.Y., during a Hanukkah gathering has left five people wounded, including two critically.
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In recent months, Hasidic neighborhoods have been the targets of a slew of anti-Semitic hate crimes, and Jewish leaders reported another one on Thursday.
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Samuel Heilman, a distinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York and an expert on Hasidic life, said that Amazon allows Hasidic men and women to avoid face-to-face transactions, liberating them from the strict rules of gender separation that govern their community: A man does not have to worry about spending too much time selling to a woman and vice versa.
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We sat down with Weinstein to discuss how he first met Menashe, going undercover in Hasidic communities, and the terror of the shoot's first two weeks.
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In towns that have fought Hasidic Jewish political power, the saying that they don't want to be "the next East Ramapo" has become a familiar mantra.
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However, if one does choose to leave the community, they risk being an outcast in not just the Hasidic community but the secular community as well.
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Watch: Community in Conflict: Hasidic Jews & Education Video With money earned as a baby sitter, Aaron even bought an iPad -- a window onto the wider world.
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He said his wife tolerates his criticisms of Hasidic restrictions, but does not share most of his views and doesn&apost want to leave Kiryas Joel.
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The answer may come from a watershed moment in the Hasidic culture, where ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders held a summit in Citi Field to condemn technology.
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He also said he has often seen Hasidic men in public libraries going on the internet or reading books that are forbidden by their religious leaders.
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But a significant number of people in the Hasidic community suffering from very real mental health problems are regularly referred to these life coaches for treatment.
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Eitzah became involved with Leah's grandparents, her principal, and even the man who was helping her father sort out his divorce in the Hasidic court system.
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Responding to the radio alert, several members of the Brooklyn South Safety Patrol, a Hasidic watch group, hopped into their vehicles and headed toward the scene.
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The notion is not an invention of the Hasidim, Allan Nadler, the director of Jewish studies at Drew University and a scholar of Hasidic practice, explained.
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After Ms. Weinstein walked out on her Hasidic life, her ties with her old community and her family, including six of her seven children, were severed.
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It was one of the first collections of religious melodies by an ultra-Orthodox musician, and it prompted other Hasidic dynasties to record their own melodies.
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McFadden does not see the Hasidic Jews walking in Williamsburg, the crayoned signs taped onto a playground fence or the sun-dappled stretch of Museum Mile.
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Although the Chabad community may seem like a relatively modern Hasidic Jewish sect that is integrated into American society, this perception is far from the truth.
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But there has not been a female ultra-Orthodox judge for centuries, certainly not within the Hasidic movement, which was founded in 210th-century Eastern Europe.
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"When he first came over from Warsaw, he tried many denominations looking for that passion, that intensity, that fervor of his Hasidic youth," the rabbi said.
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The actor Jeff Wilbusch leaves the most poignant impression in a moving series of monologues about his painful adolescent separation from his Hasidic family in Israel.
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The video was posted Wednesday by the Rockland County Republican Party and featured a warning of a "takeover" by Hasidic Jews, NBC 4 New York reported.
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This was difficult because Hasidic yeshivas use a tax exemption granted churches that does not require them to file financial documents with the Internal Revenue Service.
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Hasidic families began migrating from New York City to suburban communities in the 1970s, hoping to create the sort of cohesive community some recalled from Europe.
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The Jewish author Deborah Feldman, who fled what she describes as crushing treatment in her Hasidic community in Brooklyn, now writes and lectures about her experiences.
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Staged scenes were planned for later in the shoot — portraits of a mirrorhead doorman, a mirrorhead homeless man, a mirrorhead Muslim walking alongside a Hasidic Jew.
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They point to outliers, successful entrepreneurs — the Hasidic-owned electronics store B & H Photo Video in New York City is often touted — as examples of success.
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On Saturday, an attacker wielding a machete wounded five Jewish individuals gathering in the home of a Hasidic rabbi to light candles at around 10 p.m.
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A vast majority of Hasidic men would never appear in a movie, let alone appear in a scene with a woman who was not a relative.
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New York is combatting anti-Semitism with a new ad campaign featured in Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish print and digital outlets, in addition to social media.
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Three people, two of them Orthodox Jews, were killed at the market, which was at the center of a growing Hasidic Jewish community in Jersey City.
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The "openness" of futures for children born into closed Hasidic, Amish or strict Muslim communities is different from children born into typical Upper West Side households.
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The attack unfolded in the town of Monsey, a hub of Hasidic life in Rockland County's heavily ultra-Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City.
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The surge in the ultra-Orthodox population has been driven in part by Hasidic families from Queens and Brooklyn, where there has also been an outbreak.
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The state and county health departments sent a pair of epidemiologists to New Square—both of them male, out of deference to Hasidic customs of gender separation.
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The truth was, I had been living for years as nothing more than a tool for my husband and the Hasidic community — a vessel to bear children.
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A pamphlet directed at Orthodox communities helped fuel the fear of vaccines In Hasidic Williamsburg, bearded men walk hurriedly in long frock coats crowned by black hats.
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Watch: Community in Conflict: Reporter's Notebook Video "There were issues years ago -- there are hooligans in every community," Rabbi Joseph Kolakowski, who is Hasidic, told Fox News.
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Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sects typically see technology and electronics as doorways to destructive behavior and forbid their practitioners from having such things as television, smartphones, and computers.
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Unsurprisingly, given the sensitive nature of the story and the Hasidic world's tendency to avoid engagement with outsiders, most of the community refused to speak with me.
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If it were any other election, it might be surprising that a candidate like Trump is popular in communities as conservative as Hasidic Jews and evangelical Christians.
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Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism, was renowned as an exorcist (which may explain Matisyahu's turn as a dybbuk-rebuker in The Possession).
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Eventually, Mr. Patterson said, three Hasidic men grabbed him, pinned him against a chain-link fence and started beating him as perhaps a dozen more surrounded them.
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Then he headed to Stamford Hill, a traditionally Hasidic Jewish community, where he wove around men in towering fur hats, capturing snatches of their conversations in Yiddish.
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Tznius, or modesty, has taken on a renewed focus in recent years, Hasidic Jews and religious experts say, as the wider world encroaches on their insular community.
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The rabbi, wrapped in a prayer shawl, sometimes completely covering his head, Hasidic-style, used a direct and personal tone, tinged with a rhetoric of self-help.
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The measles outbreak that led to a state of emergency in New York's Rockland County began far away: in an annual Hasidic pilgrimage from Israel to Ukraine.
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In New York, people like Shoshana Bernstein, a Hasidic mother in Monsey, worry about the potentially deadly consequences of listening to anti-vaccine proponents like Dr. Palevsky.
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Critics said he moved too slowly to declare a public health emergency that would have required vaccinations after a measles outbreak spread through Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn.
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Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.
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Bernstein said, mentioning a Hasidic friend who sells needlepoint designs, another who sells strictly kosher gluten-free and other health foods, and a third who sells Judaica.
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With a Talmudic twist of logic, some Hasidic entrepreneurs take on a non-Jew as a presumptive partner, attributing profits made on the Sabbath to that person.
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For the dozens of Hasidic Jewish families who had settled in Jersey City over the past few years, the JC Kosher Supermarket served as a community hub.
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Similar moratoriums enacted in southeastern Orange County have been seen as efforts to block the incursion of the growing Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel to the south.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City has pledged to increase police presence in neighborhoods of Brooklyn with large Hasidic populations, including Williamsburg and Borough Park.
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The ultra-Orthodox communities in New Jersey and Rockland County have grown as Hasidic families from New York City, priced out of their neighborhoods, have relocated there.
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The large majority of cases have involved unvaccinated children in Hasidic Jewish communities, where immunization rates were sometimes far lower than the state average of 2300 percent.
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The large majority of cases have involved unvaccinated children in Hasidic Jewish communities, where immunization rates were sometimes far lower than the state average of 2300 percent.
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He had concealed his face with a scarf when he burst into the home in this Hasidic community in the New York suburbs at about 10 p.m.
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In recent years, the area's ultra-Orthodox population has surged as Hasidic families from Queens and Brooklyn, priced out of their neighborhoods, have moved to the suburbs.
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The Monsey attack could have been much more serious for another victim, Naftuli Frank, said Mayor Israel Spitzer of New Square, another Hasidic enclave in Rockland County.
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At the other end of the spectrum are Hasidic Jews, for example, who may refuse to watch television or read a newspaper unless it's an Orthodox publication.
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"You have fanatics in every group," said Avi Kagan, an accountant who is Hasidic, and who like others stressed that there is no religious edict against vaccination.
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Rabbi David Niederman, the president of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, said a city bus driver tried to refuse service to a Hasidic woman in Brooklyn.
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Partway through the film, Ewing and Grady finally show her face for the first time; through Etty we encounter Footsteps, a support group for former Hasidic Jews.
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The dress itself (which will haunt you for days) is a replica of the traditional Hasidic garment worn by the character Leah in the Yiddish play The Dybbuk.
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The issue comes up, however, in regard to interest, wrote Rabbi Yehuda Shurpin for Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, one of the largest Hasidic movements in the world.
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Chavie Weisberger was raised in a Hasidic family — an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect — and "was groomed for the ultimate level of success, which was marriage," she tells PEOPLE.
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Both were raised in Chabad, the Hasidic movement famed for its determined outreach to secular Jews, and the couple moved to Jerusalem to open their own Chabad house.
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That is because Hasidic communities have been outgrowing their enclaves and pushing to establish outposts in new towns, leading to pitched battles all over the New York region.
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By extension, that meant questioning the fundamentals of Hasidic Judaism, which views many of the staples of modern life as toxic, and the outside world as morally compromised.
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She dutifully followed the traditional path of a young Hasidic male in her strictly gender segregated community, attending a Yeshiva in upstate New York, and becoming a rabbi.
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Hasidic communities follow a strictly conservative interpretation of Judaism, mandating that adherents dress in the style of their ancestors, maintain strict standards of separation by gender, and more.
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Netflix's One of Us, about three young people trying to make their way in life after leaving Hasidic Judaism behind, is laden with a familiar sadness and longing.
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Yet the sobering takeaway of this production is that the cultural walls that separate the black and Hasidic communities here are so insurmountable as to preclude such identification.
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"I was born and raised in what I now call a religious cult," she told me of her childhood as part of the Belz Hasidic Dynasty in Brooklyn.
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Ocean County is a refuge for people who leave New York City because it's too liberal (cops and Hasidic Jews), and that side voted for Trump 65–32.
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That night, he gave a talk that during a Hasidic gathering that would be broadcast via a phoneline to 1,000 people in the Israeli village of Kfar Chabad.
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New Soviet laws outlawing religious discrimination granted Chagall, born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal to a Hasidic Jewish family, full rights and citizenship for the first time in his life.
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On April 2, tens of thousands of black-hatted and black-garbed Hasidic men from every major sect crammed the thoroughfares of Borough Park, Brooklyn, for his funeral.
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Like his father, Rabbi Portugal was famed for the melodies he composed to accompany passages in Psalms and holiday prayers, some of which are regarded as Hasidic classics.
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After all, who would have thought that, in 2018, one of the hottest labels would be one that is primarily inspired by traditional Hasidic, Amish and Victorian garb?
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Without a firm grasp on English, it is extremely difficult for Hasidic Jews to find work outside their low-income neighborhoods, where the predominant spoken language is Yiddish.
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It isn't often that Hasidic Jews trend in the mainstream news, and it's even rarer for violent attacks to be the reason this ultra-Orthodox community makes headlines.
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Most Hasidic Jews speak Yiddish at home, and nearly a third of students in Jewish schools in New York City speak limited English, according to the Education Department.
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"We're not looking to push out anybody," said Mordecha Feuerstein, a volunteer for a Hasidic organization that helps people find new homes in affordable places like Jersey City.
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Across the state, there are dozens of Hasidic yeshivas, with tens of thousands of students — nearly 60,000 in New York City alone — whose education is being atrociously neglected.
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He is a singular presence in the briefing room: a young Hasidic Jew with side curls tucked behind his ears and a skullcap embroidered with his Twitter handle.
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Bringing together copious, diverse and sometimes dissonant references (spanning Hasidic masters, George Eliot, Zizek and Beckett, among others), Zornberg gives a new tour of the life of Moses.
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When the siren goes off at the busy intersection of Myrtle and Bedford Avenues, those in the traditional garb of Hasidic Jews quicken their steps to get home.
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Reagan kept in touch with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch Hasidic movement, throughout his presidency, even declaring his 80th birthday a National Day of Reflection.
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In 2006, a State Supreme Court ruling upheld a rabbinical court decision blocking one Hasidic-owned bus company from copying another's route schedule from New York to Washington.
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The supermarket caters to a small but steadily growing community of Hasidic families who have moved to Jersey City in recent years from the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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"My wife watches it — off the record," said one communal leader in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York's largest Hasidic neighborhood, smiling mischievously and asking not to be identified.
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Hasidic leaders said they feared not only a rise in anti-Semitism but an invasion of their cloistered community by the authorities under the guise of public health.
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Some suburbanites are concerned about the changes to their neighborhoods caused by new enclaves of high density developments intended to accommodate the often large size of Hasidic families.
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The film's revelations are two-pronged: They uncover much about the Hasidic community, while also more broadly exposing how insular groups keep people in and everyone else out.
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The traditional Hasidic dress Landau used for the project was created to replicate an outfit worn by young bride Leah in The Dybbuk, a 100-year-old Yiddish play.
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Women play a big role in Hasidic communities, but they are shut out of certain important matters handled exclusively by the men, both in life and in the film.
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Jensen's favorite Rose Wood routine involves Wood, who at one point considered rabbinical training, dressed as a member of the Hasidic tradition, dancing and breaking matzahs on her head.
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"Usually we view ourselves as a body with a soul, but the prohibitions [of Shabbat] remind us that we are souls with a body," explains Hasidic Rabbi Ozer Bergman.
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Ancestors of today's Hasidic Jews did not wear black coats and fur-lined hats in Levantine deserts, nor did the Plain Indians ride horses before the arrival of Europeans.
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I had naïvely thought that in the company of their own gender, the Hasidic women, who in public cover their elbows and knees and hair, would dress less conservatively.
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And Judge Freier felt she could do all that was expected of her as a Hasidic woman — and be a judge, a paramedic and a voice for change, too.
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In 2006, a Hasidic group petitioned a Montreal Y.M.C.A. to frost its windows — the sweaty flesh inside the gym, visible from the sidewalk, was too much for Orthodox Hasidim.
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Raised in Hasidic communities in Europe, Rabbi Hager was so intent on avoiding carnal and materialistic lures that he deliberately took off his glasses while walking down the street.
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The neighborhood is culturally lively, too, with Hasidic Jews filling the blocks approaching Bedford-Stuyvesant to the south, and a Puerto Rican and Dominican population concentrated in the north.
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He told lecture audiences how to identify which Hasidic group is singing by whether "yadi-dadi" or "bim-bom" or "yama-mama" is repeated in wordless tunes or passages.
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Alone among the grand rabbis of the Hasidic world, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Taub had no ample beard, just a few short wisps of facial hair framed by long sidelocks.
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In fact, the judge, Eric I. Prus, eventually ruled that she should lose custody of her children, largely because she had lapsed in raising them according to Hasidic customs.
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The ad invokes the Hasidic Jewish community in the county, which has been developing homes and places of worship with little regard for zoning restrictions, according to local leaders.
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Kiryas Joel, a village in a corner of Orange County that is home to more 20,280 Hasidic Jews, gained its independence from the Town of Monroe on Nov. 22020.
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The expansion of Hasidic communities in New York's Hudson Valley, the Catskills and northern New Jersey has led to predictable sparring over new housing development and local political control.
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Menashe Lustig plays the title character, whose wife's death endangers his custody of his son (Ruben Niborski) — a rule in his Hasidic community requires a mother in every household.
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It was a modest storefront, but the JC Kosher Supermarket had become a hub, a symbol of the roots of a newly formed Hasidic Jewish community in Jersey City.
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On Saturday night in Monsey, N.Y., a man with a large knife burst into the home of a Hasidic rabbi, stabbing and wounding five people who were celebrating Hanukkah.
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Schwartz told me he'd been served a kosher RPG at a wedding in the Hasidic Lubavitch community, its preparation approved by a mashgiach, a supervisor of Jewish dietary law.
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And Orthodox Jews in New Jersey and New York followed the situation on Yiddish-language social media groups, said Yosef Rapaport, a Hasidic community leader from Borough Park, Brooklyn.
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Starting in 1906, Buber published translations and adaptations of Hasidic legends, which caused a sensation among German Jews, who had long looked down on what they considered ancestral superstitions.
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At 19, Ms. Weisz entered into an arranged marriage, but she opted for divorce after four years because of her increasing differences with the strict Hasidic way of life.
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The businessman, Moishe Indig, is a prominent rabbi and leader in the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg who was on the Village Voice's 10 Worst Landlords list in 2010.
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They often conducted religious classes and gained inmate followings, as did a Hasidic rabbi from Brooklyn who got caught up in mortgage fraud before the 2008 housing market crash.
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It caters to a small, but growing, number of about 100 Hasidic families who have arrived in recent years after being priced out of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.
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On Saturday, a man armed with a knife stormed the home of a Hasidic rabbi in Monsey, N.Y., during a Hanukkah gathering and wounded five people, including two critically.
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One of Us isn't just about Hasidic Judaism; it's an empathetic look at the difficulties that come when we start to question the very commitments that form our identity.
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There have been more than 400 cases of measles confirmed in New York City since October, the New York Times reports, with the majority occurring in the Hasidic Jewish community.
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The proceeding was attended by six Hasidic Jewish men who sat in the front row of the courtroom, dressed in the traditional dark garb of the Jewish ultra-Orthodox faithful.
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A Taste of Jewish New York: Borough Park Tour (Sunday) Participants in this tour will get an insider's look at the customs of the Hasidic residents of Borough Park, Brooklyn.
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"A Stranger Among Us" and "A Price Above Rubies" cast blonde bombshells (Melanie Griffith and Renee Zellweger, respectively) to play outsiders who come into conflict with tightly-held Hasidic traditions.
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In their latest film, they have combined both of these focuses to provide an in-depth look at Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community, transcending their previous achievements with gorgeous visual storytelling.
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In stores, Hasidic cashiers leave change on the counter when dealing with female customers so they don't have to make physical contact with a woman who is not their wife.
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As you meet different representatives of the black and Hasidic communities that clashed so destructively during one violent August in Brooklyn, the chasm that separates them gapes wider than ever.
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Disturbed by Mr. Patterson's plight, Michael Lesher, a New Jersey lawyer, wrote an opinion article for The Forward last month urging Hasidic Jews to finally speak out against the shomrim.
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The female-only hours at the Metropolitan Recreation Center, a two-decade-old accommodation for the area's sizable Hasidic population, will be reduced to four hours a week from six.
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Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, called the exemption "deeply troubling" and said she believed it was motivated primarily to privilege the Hasidic community.
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Yes, sushi, which you won't find in most 20th-century Jewish cookbooks, let alone the Torah, has become a runaway hit in the city's Hasidic and other Orthodox Jewish precincts.
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"They are being responsible and sitting home, so they don't endanger others," Rochel Butman, the director of Chabad of Westchester, a Hasidic Jewish outreach group, said of her quarantined neighbors.
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Councilman Chaim Deutsch of Brooklyn said that he opposed the ban for several reasons, including that many Hasidic Jewish men wear hats made of fur, known as shtreimels or spodiks.
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In Virus Hot Spot, Lining Up and Anxious at Drive-in Test Center Defying Virus Rules, Large Hasidic Jewish Weddings Held in Brooklyn Fix Everything Wrong at 23 Subway Stations?
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In 2015, the Anti-Defamation League called out an ad put out by the group as "highly offensive" and "inappropriate" for its portrayal of Hasidic Jews, according to The Forward.
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In East Ramapo, there were legal fights after Hasidic voters, who generally do not send their children to public schools, elected a majority of members of the local school board.
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Bernstein, like many other Hasidic merchants, hires search engine optimization specialists to generate the key words that will get their businesses high on Amazon's product lists and in Google searches.
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I am a former member of the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, populated by Satmar Hasidim, the sect to which the two Jewish victims in the Jersey City attack belonged.
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Mayer Schiller, a Hasidic rabbi who in the 1990s coached Yeshiva University High School to six consecutive league championships, is recognized as the progenitor of the yeshiva floor hockey scene.
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Hasidic Jews had begun arriving in the largely African-American neighborhood of Greenville in Jersey City about five years ago, as part of a broader expansion into areas outside Brooklyn.
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One heavily Hasidic district of Brooklyn, South Williamsburg, has, over the last decade, shown dramatic increases in using public income support such as cash assistance, Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid.
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The video, which is more than two minutes long, accuses Aron Wieder, a prominent Hasidic legislator, and his "bloc" of "plotting a takeover" of the county by redrawing voting districts.
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In Saheem Ali's revival, the piece is handed over to Michael Benjamin Washington, who performs verbatim monologues based on interviews with African-Americans and Hasidic Jews as well as others.
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Yosef Rapaport, a Hasidic community leader, said that his nephew, Shimon Goldberger, had described to him being at prayer services at a synagogue next to the kosher market around noon.
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He was slow to issue fines when some yeshivas flouted health department orders to bar unvaccinated children from classrooms, even as a measles outbreak took hold in Brooklyn's Hasidic communities.
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The video, which is more than two minutes long, accuses Aron Wieder, a prominent Hasidic legislator, and his "bloc" of "plotting a takeover" of the county by redrawing voting districts.
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Another one shows Clinton's reaction to a Hasidic newspaper photoshopping her out of the iconic photograph from the White House situation room during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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The theory was that he'd got it from another Israeli, who had travelled to the city of Uman, in Ukraine, for the Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage known as the Hasidic Burning Man.
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But there was a moment of awkwardness in May 2016, when the couple attended a barbecue organised by the kindergarten, which is affiliated to the Chabad Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Jews.
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A decades-long battle between Monroe and K.J. ended in a referendum vote in November allowing the Hasidic village to secede, with a settlement giving it more than 200 annexed acres.
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The Satmar Hasidic leaders, a council known as the Vaad -- wanted him to understand they knew he was on the internet, even though he was posting messages under a fictitious name.
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Happily, these classics have not totally fallen by the culinary wayside; they, along with other Eastern European Jewish traditions dating back 250 years, have been preserved by the global Hasidic community.
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According to court testimony of a Sullivan County election commissioner, some new Hasidic voters in Bloomingburg didn't seem to know what street they lived on or what county they were in.
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The revelations in One of Us are two-pronged: They uncover much about the Hasidic community, while also more broadly exposing how insular groups keep people in and everyone else out.
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There have not been any polls of Hasidic voters ahead of the primary election, so much of the evidence of support for Trump within these communities so far has been anecdotal.
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The office area in the front is painted a garish taxicab-yellow, with posters of hockey players on the wall and a framed photo of the late Hasidic rabbi Menachem Schneerson.
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On the airplane that was to take him to an Israel darkened by the Arab-Israeli war in 1973, he sat shoeless with a friend, and together they hummed Hasidic melodies.
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In Borough Park, one of the most heavily Hasidic neighborhoods in New York, dickeys are a hot item: Fitted into a sweater, they can make even a cowl neck look demure.
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For his part, Mr. Lamm filed a federal lawsuit accusing the village and the town of religious discrimination in trying to block his project, to prevent an influx of Hasidic Jews.
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A group of Hasidic men — some of them members of the Shomrim, a local neighborhood watch patrol — chased and attacked him after receiving an erroneous report that he was vandalizing cars.
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Bucharest had become a kind of Hasidic Casablanca, with desperate refugees, including the grand rabbis of Skver and Bobov, seeking documents that could take them to the United States or Palestine.
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"My employer also inserted my face onto the photo of a Hasidic Jewish man and circulated that picture around the office," Jacobson alleges in documents also obtained by the Daily Mail.
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Mr. Katz lived down the block and the reason why his name was Mr. Katz was not because he had lots of cats, it was because he was a Hasidic Jew.
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A repeated motif throughout is a Hasidic story, in which a rabbi cautions a would-be heretic student that he can never truly enjoy the forbidden pleasures in which he partakes.
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But in 2013, one of his most famous investigations — that of David Ranta, an unemployed drug addict convicted of murdering a Hasidic rabbi — unraveled over allegations that he had been framed.
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When his mother was hospitalized with breast cancer a few years later, he was introduced to the rabbi at Chabad of Flatbush, a synagogue belonging to a branch of Hasidic Judaism.
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One of the six valedictorians this year with 4.0 G.P.A.s was Rochel Hecht, a young woman who fled a deeply Hasidic family that had objected to her desire to educate herself.
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She struck pay dirt on a nude beach in Jacob Riis Park in 1980, when a Hasidic Jew, dressed in black hat and overcoat on a scorching summer day, unexpectedly appeared.
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Bernstein's husband had been selling camp labels in a Brooklyn variety shop but it failed and now he drives a bus for a Hasidic yeshiva and helps out with the cooking.
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Men like Mr. Felder, beholden not so much to his Hasidic constituents as much as to their leaders who promise him votes, would like to pretend that this problem doesn't exist.
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The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley region said on Twitter that five patients, all of which are Hasidic Jews, were transported to local hospitals for their injuries.
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The vast majority of those in MetLife Stadium were Orthodox men, many from Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox sects, and their dark suits and hats gave the stadium a charcoal cast.
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Chesky Deutsch, a local Hasidic activist, said that up to 100 children ranging in age from 7 to 10 had been trapped in a yeshiva school next door to the market.
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In Saheem Ali's revival, Deavere has handed the piece over to Michael Benjamin Washington, who performs verbatim monologues, based on interviews with African-Americans and Hasidic Jews as well as others.
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So it has a bereft widowed Hasidic cantor named Shmuel (Geza Rohrig) team up with Albert, a dumpy, mildly grizzled community college biology professor — and complete stranger — played by Matthew Broderick.
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In the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in upstate New York where I have been photographing for the last year, they host the largest Lag BaOmer celebration outside of Israel.
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But despite spending an afternoon baking matzo and speaking to Jewish leaders in a yarmulke, Cruz still faces an uphill battle with the Hasidic and Orthodox voters in New York City.
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But not everyone thinks the tonsuring route is best: Hasidic Jewish women, for example, are a large consumer of hair, but choose not to wear hair that is tied to another religion.
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Sick children have been told to stay home, poorly vaccinated schools and daycare centers have been closed, and even a Hasidic wedding with a sick groom was shut down over the holidays.
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He liked to say he was a product of intermarriage — that of his paternal great-grandparents — between two great traditions of Judaism: the cerebral Lithuanian tradition and the more emotional Hasidic tradition.
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Hasidic residents and leaders say that bigotry is at the root of the battles -- many of which have ended up in court, which often have ruled in the religious community&aposs favor.
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Hasidic leaders or developers with ties to them then buy up nearby homes, gain control of the local school board, ultimately gut public school budgets and divert funds to private Jewish schools.
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"Some of the most knowledgeable and vocal opponents of the eruv are our Jewish residents" who aren&apost Hasidic, said Friis, who founded the group Citizens for a Better Upper Saddle River.
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When Stephen McAllister took command of the 22012th Precinct in 13, a crowd of Hasidic men, many from the shomrim, stood in line for hours at the station house to welcome him.
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Big City Last year, on a Turkish Airlines flight bound for Istanbul from Tel Aviv, Jo-Ann Mort encountered an agitated Hasidic man who had been assigned the seat next to hers.
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She was raised ultra-Orthodox in Monsey, N.Y., as part of a family of revered rabbis — her grandfather is the founder of the Hasidic sect to which she formerly belonged, Emunas Yisroel.
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She was instrumental in shaping the prosecution of Lemrick Nelson Jr., who was eventually convicted of violating the civil rights of a Hasidic scholar killed during the Crown Heights violence in 1991.
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Andrew Cuomo called the attack Saturday night on a Hasidic Jewish community in Monsey, New York, "domestic terrorism" and directed state police to increase patrols in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods across the state.
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But in 2013, one of his most famous investigations — that of David Ranta, an unemployed drug addict convicted of murdering a Hasidic rabbi — suddenly unraveled under allegations that he had been framed.
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"The dealers, the brokers — predominantly Hasidic Jews — would line up to see my father, and then me, every day and show the stones and jewels they had to sell," Mr. Siegelson recalled.
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In the 1970s, a group of Hasidic students patched together a working international phone system that could broadcast a talk by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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One of the victims was critically injured The five people injured inside Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg's home were all Hasidic Jews, the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley Region said.
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While Hasidic anticrime patrols had at times been a source of tension with black residents, there are no indications that those patrols were involved in attacks after the death of Gavin Cato.
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During a rehearsal break, the five actors discussed going "off the derech" — or O.T.D. — an expression that uses the Hebrew word for path and refers to leaving the Hasidic religion and lifestyle.
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We caught "Annie Hall" at The Kent (the scene where Annie's anti-Semitic grandmother imagines Woody Allen's Alvy Singer as a Hasidic Jew drew gasps from Orthodox folks in the Sunday crowd).
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But while those tensions were once buffered by yeshiva walls and eruvim, the symbolic perimeters around Hasidic enclaves, the outbreak of measles, which is highly contagious, cannot be kept to such boundaries.
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As Hyperallergic previously reported, the pro-union employees, who largely comprise a Hispanic community, have described years of discrimination based on their race from managers, the majority of whom are Hasidic Jews.
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A Satmar rabbi, Hillel Handler, stood and suggested that the measles outbreak was an anti-Hasidic conspiracy concocted by Mayor Bill de Blasio, as a cover for diseases imported by Central American immigrants.
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Joshua Weinstein, a non-observant Jew who co-wrote and directed the film, secured access to shoot among them by casting Menashe Lustig, a Hasidic actor and YouTube star, in the lead role.
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Spoken almost entirely in Yiddish, the movie follows its eponymous character, a Hasidic Jew living in Borough Park, Brooklyn who's trying to retain custody of his boy following the death of his wife.
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" Video The residents of Monroe, N.Y., another town north of Manhattan where the suburbs meet rural upstate, refer to tensions between themselves and Hasidic residents by just an innocuous pair of initials: "K.
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The spokesman for the event, Rabbi Eytan Kobre, told reporters at the time that the internet and smartphones posed "the most difficult spiritual challenge" for Orthodox Jews, not just those who are Hasidic.
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As a result, many Hasidic communities have developed rules specifically banning the possession of electronic devices, making exceptions only under special circumstances – like, say, needing these tools in order to run a business.
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They'd both grown up in the same Hasidic Jewish neighborhood, where they were taught to follow the orders of their respective rebbes down to how many stitches they could have in their socks.
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At the time, Lamm's spokesperson Michael Fragin said allegations of impropriety reeked of anti-Semitism and that the business proposal was little more than a sales pitch designed to appeal to Hasidic buyers.
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Those men, Aharon Goldberg, an Israel-based rabbi, and Shimen Liebowitz, a member of Satmar Hasidic community in Kiryas Joel, New York, were accused of conspiring to kidnap and murder the intended victim.
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Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, regarded as perhaps the leading composer of Hasidic prayer melodies, whose music flavored the religious life of Orthodox Jews and influenced popular klezmer bands, died on Sunday in Brooklyn.
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Opponents of Mr. Lamm's development, known as Chestnut Ridge, said it would dramatically alter the sleepy pastoral character of the village, creating a locale congested with Hasidic newcomers and no longer as diverse.
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The mother of Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize-winning author and teacher, and his grandfather were Viznitz Hasidim, and Mr. Wiesel, though he was not Hasidic, had a deep knowledge of Viznitz melodies.
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When, during World War II, the Germans occupied Hungary — Grosswardein was now within its borders — the Hager family made its way to Bucharest, Romania's capital, with the help of a Hasidic smuggling network.
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A Hasidic mother who lives in Rockland County and participated in the call told The New York Times that none of her three children were vaccinated, and all of them recently had measles.
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The new Town of Palm Tree, which will officially come into existence in 2020, derives its name from Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Hasidic leader who founded the village of Kiryas Joel.
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One drawback to working with Amazon is the inability of Hasidic business owners to answer customer queries and complaints on holy days, which can lower customer ratings since Amazon rules require prompt replies.
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Neighbors clustered below, whispering in English and Yiddish about how hours before some had watched helplessly as an early-morning blaze tore through the home in the largely Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community.
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"Practice" visits a Hasidic gathering in Ukraine where men meet prospective wives, and follows a married Japanese couple at the Mara Kannon Shrine in Yamaguchi, where phallic statuary is said to promote fertility.
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"We have about 100 families," said one Hasidic resident who answered the phone at the small synagogue next door on Tuesday evening and asked to be identified by only his first name, Mark.
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According to United States Census figures, the all-Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel, an hour north of New York City, is the poorest in the country, with median family income less than $18,000.
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Monsey, near the New Jersey state line about 35 miles north of New York City, is one of several Hudson Valley communities that has seen an influx of Hasidic Jews in recent years.
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The man accused of going on a stabbing rampage at the New York-area home of a Hasidic rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration was indicted on Friday on six counts of attempted murder.
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This year, Welch's Manischewitz demonstrated that it really meant business by turning out juice with an additional kosher certification from a panel of exacting rabbis from the rigorous Hasidic and ultra-Orthodox communities.
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The most recent attack occurred inside a Hasidic rabbi's home in a New York City suburb, when a man wielding a machete stabbed at least five people who had gathered for Hanukkah celebrations.
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My mother became Hasidic when I was 12, after years of only desultory High Holy Days observance (my parents were divorced), and I was sent to yeshiva high school and Orthodox summer camps.
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Over her short cuddling career, there have been quite a few Indian men, often with families back home, and Hasidic Jews, who are all but banned from touching women who are not their wives.
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So here's a fun confession: my favorite Thursday night activity is to get high, dress up in my most modest ensemble, and gorge myself on cheap, stodgy Jewish food in Hasidic neighborhoods after dark.
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The majority of Hasidic voters he's spoken to have said they plan on supporting Trump, although Kornbluh says that he has also found support for Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz within the community.
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He wore a skullcap to Brooklyn to talk to Hasidic Jews in Borough Park after his opponent, Jerry Brown , the former and current governor of California, had upset Jews by appearing with the Rev.
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The brutal beating of Mr. Patterson in a primarily Hasidic neighborhood drew comparisons to previous attacks on black men in white ethnic enclaves, like one that occurred three decades ago in Howard Beach, Queens.
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On a snowy day in January 2014, the charred remains of Menachem Stark, a Hasidic landlord from Brooklyn, were found in a trash bin at a gas station in Great Neck, on Long Island.
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Another Hasidic man, 29-year-old Yankel Rosenbaum, was fatally stabbed, and a teenager, who the police said possessed a bloodstained knife and whom the mortally wounded man identified, was arrested near the scene.
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Health officials expressed growing alarm on Wednesday that the coronavirus is spreading quickly in tightly knit Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn, saying that they are investigating a spike in confirmed cases in recent days.
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The wedding, held in South Williamsburg at a venue that also houses a religious school, was one of several large Hasidic weddings in recent days, said Mordy Getz, a local businessman and community activist.
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Yet Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, the grand rabbi of the tiny Skulen Hasidic sect, a slender man with a broad, snowy beard and long white sidelocks, was revered throughout the growing ultra-Orthodox world.
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A woman I know works as a physician at Maimonides Medical Center, in heavily Hasidic Borough Park in Brooklyn, and often sees adult male patients who can barely communicate to her what ails them.
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On Sunday, members of the Hasidic community said they took some solace in the way people at the Hanukkah party did whatever they could to repel the attacker, with some throwing furniture at him.
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One outspoken Hasidic advocate, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, set up a phone line where people can call in to hear recordings of him sermonizing about the issue in colorful Yiddish, and leave their own messages.
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He is a member of Chabad Lubavitch, a Hasidic sect, who lives near the Old City, and says he rises at 3 every morning and makes his way to the Western Wall by 4.
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A thread emerges early in "One of Us," a documentary about three Hasidic Jews who have left that community, and it's that leaving doesn't only mean severing a spiritual connection; the toll is complete.
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Inmates periodically hold an informal vote to elect a "gabbai" to run the shul, which is currently led by a Hasidic man from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who is locked up for arson and corporate fraud.
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But many who support vaccines say they worry that the city is missing the mark by not addressing the crucial issue: the misinformation flooding Hasidic communities that tells them to be wary of vaccines.
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"Being a religious Jew, you also get used to having a minority viewpoint," said Alexander Rapaport, the CEO of the Masbia Soup Kitchen Network in Brooklyn, and a public face of the Hasidic community.
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A painting by the Ukrainian artist Emmanuel Mané-Katz, for $20,000 to $30,000, signed and dated 1935, Mr. Greenstein said, was "the finest teenage Hasidic youth" that he had seen in his 34-year career.
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"I think that the Hasidic community is primed for submission," Mistress Blunt told me, noting that her Orthodox and Catholic clients are the ones who most often bring religion to the forefront of their sessions.
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While all three characters are compelling — each story is more heartbreaking than the next — the point that One of Us drives home is that women in the Hasidic community have far less recourse than men.
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The father of five was summoned to a meeting with leaders of his ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish sect in Kiryas Joel, N.Y., a village of some 22,000 about 50 miles north of New York City.
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For the past 20 years the Metropolitan Recreation Center pool has blocked off certain hours for female-only swimming in consideration of the local Hasidic Jewish population, which abides by strict rules pertaining to modesty.
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It is set within the insular world of Jerusalem's Hasidic Jews, and also in a dream world of the director's own devising, a place where faith, skepticism and lust entwine in disturbing and surprising ways.
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In addition to the obscure Hasidic melodies, he published some 200 collections of better-known Yiddish and Israeli folk songs, spirited klezmer tunes, Sephardic melodies, cantorial classics, sorrowful songs of the Holocaust and other music.
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She needed Jewish music so that a few friends of the groom who were yeshiva students could dance at the wedding, and she knew Mr. Pasternak's name from records of Hasidic music he had arranged.
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She began writing newspaper columns, about topics ranging from neo-Nazis and the rise of Donald Trump, to why she decided to become a German citizen even though she'd been raised as a Hasidic Jew.
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The outbreak in New York is centered in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic community, and children might be exposed to infected relatives at family gatherings for the holiday of Passover, which starts Friday night.
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