Netflix documentary director apologizes for saying Hasidic Jews were ‘loud and proud’ during Holocaust Heidi Ewing said most Hasidim in Europe were killed partly because they refused to "blend in."
Sense of siege in Kiryas Joel amid FBI raids and scrutiny of yeshivas Even before the raid, there was a growing sense in the insular community that it and its unique way of life were under attack.
Op-Ed: Faigy Mayer’s suicide is a Jewish tragedy, not just an Orthodox one The author of “All Who Go Do Not Return” was shaken but, sadly, not shocked by the death of his friend and fellow ex-Hasid. She wasn’t the first member of the formerly haredi Orthodox community to take her own life.
