If outsiders listen to leaders of the community rather than reformers on the margins, they’ll be more likely to come to agreement. Just look to Israel, where a new precedent was set.
Watch the recording or read the transcript of our columnist’s conversation last week about the hasidic yeshiva controversy.
With its new Yiddish course, the language-learning app Duolingo sparked major disagreements over Jewish identity. One of the course developers joins us to discuss what happened.
After a summer of chaos, wealthy and secular New Yorkers are fleeing in droves. Brooklyn’s Jews aren’t thrilled, but for them leaving isn’t so easy, or so desirable.
De Blasio’s ongoing callousness to Jewish citizens.
The queasy transaction of the ex-Orthodox narrative.
Hasidim in the mist.
And it’s not coming from white supremacists.
Naked prejudice in the Hudson Valley.
The idea that Jews are a rich, powerful, turbo-white elite has plenty of purchase.
Perpetrators don’t have any connection to anti-Semitic movements.
A new golden age, thanks to ḥasidic readers.