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.

September 16, 2018 10:52 am

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.

March 7, 2018 1:19 pm

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 […]

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