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- What the Institutions Were Buying: A Demand-Side Account of the Jason Arday Appointments
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Category Archives: Hasidim
Report: “Savvy” Hasidic Williamsburg Families Hold A Bulk Of Section 8 Vouchers
Are such hasidim compatible with first-world living? They suck up all the welfare they can, they don’t give their kids a secular education, they generally have an anti-gentile attitude and they feel no loyalty towards the nation that hosts them. … Continue reading
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Jewish security patrol trio accused of beating gay black man likely to avoid prison
Chaim Amalek writes: “Old Cossack joke about America: In America, the Hassids beat YOU! I just want all of your liberal goy readers to know that Judaism is actually very tolerant when it comes to gays. By which I mean … Continue reading
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Snitches Get Stitches
Most Hasidim deliberately educate their children so that they only receive a bare minimum of gentile knowledge, that way they will be more likely to stay within the bounds of Judaism. Most Hasidim in America have an understanding of English … Continue reading
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss Condemns Zionism at UC Irvine
There’s nothing sinister about Haredi (traditional Orthodox) Jews who do not support the modern secular state of Israel. They are being consistent with their understanding of Judaism. Prior to WWII, most Jews were not Zionist aka were not pushing for … Continue reading
Haaretz: A Screenwriter, a Hasidic Mother of Seven, and a Sex Poet
From Haaretz: Marilyn Wennig, 36, uniquely combines the two estranged worlds of an ultra-Orthodox lifestyle with secular Israeli film and literature. A day after Marilyn Wennig was interviewed on Channel 2’s late night news show about the Oscars, she asked … Continue reading
Why Some Hasidic Jews Are Loving Donald Trump’s Campaign
VICE: Chaim Schlaff was born and raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in London. He now lives in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, and describes himself as a “proud legal immigrant.” He is also an enthusiastic Donald Trump … Continue reading
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Why Does This White Neighborhood Have No Diversity?
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NYP: Hasid who hanged herself was forced to marry her first cousin
New York Post: The Hasidic woman who committed suicide four months after her sister also killed herself suffered years of depression following her forced marriage to a first cousin, a family insider told The Post on Monday. Sara Mayer, 31, … Continue reading
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Wedding video – Bas Kol – בס-קול חיים שלמה מאיעס
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An Orthodox View Of Love
Jewish Standard: Both Ms. Brown’s books are written in a child’s voice — a smart, self-aware, limit-testing, often obnoxious little girl, self-centered as happy children often are, secure in her parents’ love and her place in the world. “Hush,” published … Continue reading