Posts Tagged ‘ hasidism ’

Video: Hasidic Boy Wins Chinese Dance-Off

January 23, 2013
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Hasidic Boy Wins Chinese Dance Contest

However did we miss this? Does anyone know who this boy is, and how he made it to this dance contest in Shenzen, China? We would really like to know.

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Video: Fake Hasids, Real Hasids

January 16, 2013
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Hollywood has long been fascinated with Hasidic Jews. From A Stranger Among Us (1992) to New York I…

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Mitzvah Tantz

August 20, 2012
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The mitzvah tantz is one of  Hasidic Judaism’s most bizarre rituals. It takes place at weddings, when the…

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Chaim Potok and the Rebbe Walk into a Bar.

July 12, 2012
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A farbrengen is a Hasidic spiritual gathering–it can be just a handful…

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Jumping for Joy

June 27, 2012
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In Israel, the NaNach movement, a subset of Bratslav Hasidism,…

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A Tale of Two Crown Heightses

May 29, 2012
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The neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is home to a…

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Real Jewish Ninjas

April 26, 2012
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Yehoshua Sofer is the “Aluf Abir” (Aluf means “champion”)…

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A Christmas Special for Jews

January 17, 2012
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There’s a certain magic to stop-motion animation–the animation technique that…

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Shlemiels and Shlemazels

November 30, 2011
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“A shlemiel,” explains Matthew Menachem Feuer at the beginning…

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The Things We Left Unsaid

November 11, 2011
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Moshe Zvi Marvit is an absorbing writer, the…

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The Earliest Yiddish Poem

November 7, 2011
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When we think of Yiddish, most of us envision…

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Hasidic Chic

October 28, 2011
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For New York Fashion Week back in 1993,…

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