hasidim

Supervisor of Chester, New York, said town is buying up property to keep Hasidics out

Chester Supervisor Alex Jamieson told the local newspaper the Times Herald-Record on Thursday that town residents fear that the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel will expand into the town.

Some Montreal residents wear yellow badges to protest Hasidic school buses

Decades-old tensions in a city borough between Hasidic Jews and their neighbors have flared anew.

The New Yiddish Film ‘Menashe’ Feels Both Foreign and Brooklyn All At Once

Menashe, a new dramatic film by filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein and out with A24, was shot entirely in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park; the language spoken is Yiddish; and much of the tension of the film rises from the strict and complex halacha of the ultra-orthodox. But Menashe is no niche film. The story […]