The Hasidim are first of all Orthodox Jews ... clarinetist or other traditional Jewish instrumentalists. Women dance to these songs at a wedding on their side of the mechitzah (partition between ...

Young Hasidim buttonhole passers-by, asking "Are you a Jew?" They try to persuade Jewish men to put on tefillin (the ritual prayer straps of Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) and give women ...

A fascinating peek into the ‘closet’ of what may still turn out to be modern Judaism's most important religious movement.” —Arthur Green, Rector, Rabbinical School, Hebrew College “The book ...

Hasidic Judaism, a vibrant branch of the Jewish faith ... or entrepreneurship in collaboration with fellow Hasidim (Hasidic people). Central to Hasidic belief is the concept of the Shekhinah ...

This, say some community experts, is why study halls were kept closed and mikvah ritual baths were shuttered (preventing women finishing ... Vishnitzer Hasidim, with origins in the borderlands ...

A fascinating peek into the ‘closet’ of what may still turn out to be modern Judaism's most important religious movement.” —Arthur Green, Rector, Rabbinical School, Hebrew College “The book ...