The fight against the exclusively male character of Hatzalah, a veteran EMS service, is led by Rachel Freier, known as “Rochi” among her friends, a Haredi attorney and resident of the predominately ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic [...]
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Imagine you’re a Hasidic Jewish boy of perhaps five years old. By this time, like other Hasidic boys, you’ve already been attending heder, primary school, for two years. Six days a week you rise early. [...]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
By Becky Bratu With my knees bent and my hands holding on to the ledge for support, I looked down from the women’s section of the 770 Eastern Parkway synagogue at the ecstatic men below [...]
Monday, April 5, 2010
By Todd Stone About twenty Hasidic Jewish children sat in a bright red open wagon on Lee Avenue in Williamsburg on Friday. Pulled by two small horses and guided by a muscular man in a [...]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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