A new hasidic art gallery grows in Brooklyn and is already bucking stereotypes. Can it survive, and what does it suggest about contemporary Orthodox life?
Those who defend ḥasidic yeshivas against increasing state regulation have conjured up an unrecognizable fairy-tale world. But the arguments of the state’s defenders are even worse.
American Pickle and Young Rechnitz
Faith is what you struggle with when you do not have the crutch of easy graving.
In the mega-shtetl of Berdichev.
Past and present fused uncannily in the rabbis’ thoughts.
When Satmar met Bible criticism.
After ignoring violence against Jews, Bill de Blasio blames them for his own public-health failings.
“Get the Ḥasidim!”
Ḥasidic women were patrons, pilgrims, and keepers of traditions.
Nissim Black’s Mothaland and Dunash ibn Labrat.
The “black wedding.”
“Happy is the people who knows the blast.”
Ḥasidic songs, and much else, will be known to the world thanks to his work.