New York Post17d
How New York’s YIVO Institute is keeping Yiddish culture alive
From its perch at the Center for Jewish History at 15 W ... public — Yiddish itself is still spoken in America among many Hasidic Jews, often as a first language. Indeed, according to data ...
New York Post8d
Judge scolds Hasidic students in bizarre scheme to build tunnel under NYC synagogue: ‘Blemish on the Chabad movement’
A Brooklyn judge on Monday berated a rebellious crew of Hasidic Jewish students charged with digging a secret tunnel under a prominent Crown Heights synagogue — even as four defiantly demanded a ...
WKRN-TV4d
Man charged after dressing to ‘appear as an Orthodox Jewish rabbi,’ entering Jewish community center
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — An East Tennessee man faces multiple charges after allegedly entering a Jewish community center dressed to to “appear as an orthodox Jewish Rabbi,” according to the ...
ABC News8d
4 men charged in a Brooklyn synagogue tunnel scuffle are awaiting trial in April
Four members of the Hasidic Jewish community accused of damaging a historic Brooklyn synagogue during a melee over an illegal tunnel are set to stand trial later this year NEW YORK -- Four men ...
WKRN-TV5d
MNPD: Man faces multiple charges after allegedly dressing to ‘appear as an Orthodox Jewish rabbi,’ entering Jewish community center
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man faces multiple charges after allegedly entering the Gordon Jewish Community Center dressed to to “appear as an Orthodox Jewish rabbi,” according to the Metro ...
Daily Mail5d
'Highly-respected' doctor who sexually abused female patients from Orthodox Jewish community 'for his own gratification' is jailed for eight years
A 'highly-respected' doctor who sexually abused female patients from the Orthodox Jewish community has been jailed for eight years. Dr Wayne Sefton Davis, a GP in Salford, carried out the assaults ...
CBS News4d
Rabbi says psychedelics are "elephant in the room" in sacred Jewish text
Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in Connecticut, Kay graduated from Yeshiva, which is Jewish school, as a rabbi. "I was dressed as an Orthodox Jew, but inside my practices weren't fully aligned ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency8d
Lego rabbis, Hasidic coloring books: How toy makers and publishers created an alternative Jewish universe
the books “feature an Orthodox Jewish girl having adventures of the kind that were otherwise normally limited either to Orthodox Jewish boys or non-Jewish girls.” Bernstein is a product of ...
The Times of Israel8d
It’s a mitzvah: LA fires activate Jewish law of saving Torah scrolls from calamity
Chabad Lubavich, the Hasidic-oriented Jewish outreach umbrella organization, has over 5,000 emissaries around the world, some in far-flung locations. In prioritizing the safety of the preschoolers ...
Arutz Sheva7d
Chabad tunnel incident: Judge calls Hasidic students a "shame to worldwide Chabad"
A New York judge strongly criticized the Hasidic students who were charged ... The following month, The New York Times reported that a group Jewish "extremist" students from the Chabad-Lubavitch ...