Sentences with phrase «hasidic jewish»

A special public - school district set up to serve students with disabilities from a Hasidic Jewish village in New York State represents an unconstitutional government establishment of religion, a state judge has ruled.

JF: [The studio] definitely felt a limitation to the upside of what they can make commercially on it, moreso than it was a Hasidic Jewish gunfighter that it was a western.

Director Joshua Z. Weinstein discusses how he created an authentic portrait of Hasidic Jewish life in his narrative feature debut, Menashe.

The title character (Menashe Lustig) is a widower in Brooklyn whose refusal to quickly remarry has made him an outcast of sorts in the Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, causing him to fight for custody of his son (Ruben Niborski) from his smarmy brother - in - law (Yoel Weisshaus).

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One of Us Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady — who directed the controversial 2006 documentary Jesus Camp — turn their cameras on New York's Hasidic Jewish community.

His is a life lived in a specific community, namely the Hasidic Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where the film was shot.

In Joshua Z. Weinstein's Yiddish - language drama, Menashe, we follow the title character, a Hasidic Jewish widower who, defying the Orthodox Jewish practices of his Brooklyn's massive community, struggles to regain the custody of his 10 - year - old son, Rieven (Ruben Niborski).

, female police officers who work in the sector of Outremont were told by their boss that while interpellating a Hasidic Jewish man, they must let their male colleague do the job.

Frankly, it sounds like a perfectly Allen-esque plot, and with the story taking place all under the roof of the hasidic Jewish community, it's no surprise he's taken a shine to the project.

Capital New York reported Friday that the donations appear to have ties to a developer in the heavily Hasidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County.

Days after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed legislation that would have made it more difficult for a Hasidic Jewish village to expand, the governor allegedly received campaign donations from the community.

The sergeant allegedly «frequently bragged about his relationship with the commanding officer and the Hasidic Jewish community.»

New York's Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner has chosen a Hudson Valley Hasidic Jewish village to lead the review of a request for it to annex 500 acres of adjacent land.

There is a public comment session scheduled for Tuesday evening in a Hudson Valley Hasidic Jewish village concerning the proposed annexation of more than 500 acres of land to the village.

Raitport's candidacy had been described as a «test [of] the tea party's ties to the district's Hasidic Jewish community.»

A state Supreme Court justice has rejected two legal challenges to a Hasidic Jewish village's expansion in Orange County.

And the district's sizable Hasidic Jewish population has dueled Los Sures for decades over control of the local subsidized housing stock, and might not want to see somebody from the organization parked in their State Senate seat.

«I don't want [children] brainwashed into thinking homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't,» Paladino said to applause at a meeting with Hasidic Jewish leaders in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

A public comment session on the Hudson Valley Hasidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel's controversial annexation proposal was held Tuesday evening — despite calls from some elected officials and area residents to postpone the session because of inclement weather.

The New York state environmental commissioner has selected a Hudson Valley Hasidic Jewish village to lead the review of a request annexing just over 500 acres of land in the Orange County town of Monroe.

Orange County officials are holding their own review of a controversial annexation proposal from the Hudson Valley Hasidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.

A Hudson Valley county plans to sue over a proposal to allow a fast - growing Hasidic Jewish village to annex 164 acres of adjacent land.

The Orange County executive held a public forum last night as part of the county's parallel review of the controversial annexation proposal from the Hasidic Jewish village of Kiryas Joel.

The New City lawyer, Cornell, won the race handily, 5,549 votes to 4,314, despite strong support for Wolfe in Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities in Ramapo.

The Sullivan County Board of Elections will appoint a monitor to review challenges to voter registrations to settle a lawsuit filed by Hasidic Jewish residents in what legal experts call an unprecedented agreement in New York state.

The leader of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg is a powerbroker in the Hasidic Jewish community who can deliver a huge bloc of votes for his chosen candidate.

Religion News Service: Orthodox rabbis laud conviction of Hasidic man on sexual abuse charges The world's largest group of Orthodox rabbis is lauding the process that led to the conviction of a Hasidic Jewish man on Monday (Dec. 10) on sexual abuse charges, and called on all segments of the Jewish community to cooperate with police in such cases.

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His visit to Crown Heights the following year, 1977, inspired him to move there and to join the Chabad Lubavitch, a Hasidic Jewish sect predominant in the neighborhood.

Not exact matches

I'm also affiliated with the Jewish Renewal movement, and in Renewal, we frequently use Hasidic metaphors — which in turn draw on kabbalistic metaphors — of raising up the sparks of divinity in creation in order to heal creation's brokenness.

In addition to his many translations and recreations of Hasidic tales and other Jewish legends, Buber edited and wrote introductions to a selection of the parables of Chuang - Tse — Reden und Gleichnisse des Tschuang - Tse [Leipzig: Insel - Verlag, 1914], a book of Chinese ghost and love stories — Chinesischen Geister - und Liebesgeschrchten [Frankfurt am Main: Rütten & Loening, 1911], a book of Celtic sayings — .

It is true that the chair belonging to Nachman of Bratslav (1772 - 181 I), a beloved Hasidic leader, is now to be found at the Bratislaver Yeshiva in Jerusalem, but Moses» grave is lost to Jewish tradition.

I looked for some connection between contemporary group process and the Jewish - Christian tradition of small group confession and mutual pastoral care, especially as manifested in Jewish hasidic and Christian pietistic groups of the 18th century.3 But even at that point I began to recognize the potential self - deception of my own antinomian temptations.

Consider how Martin Buber's studies of Hasidism evoked rather good feelings from well - educated, middle - class Jews toward the Hasidic tradition (relieving the prejudice that the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, had raised against the Hasidim) Consider also that very few of these folk seriously contemplated taking up a Hasidic lifestyle.

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men pray next to the body of Rabbi Abraham Jacob Friedman of Sadigura Hasidic dynasty during his funeral on January 01, 2013.

Footsteps is a Jewish organization that helps Hasidic Jews wishing to leave their ultra-orthodox community become integrated members of secular society and work through the profound difficulties of leaving behind their past and, in most cases, being disowned by their families.

CNN: Beardless Matisyahu stills rocks hard, with dreidel mirror ball He may be clean shaven, but Orthodox Jewish reggae star Matisyahu still has the energy, passion and talent as when he donned a traditional Hasidic beard.

Ringel, who's the first Hasidic staffer in the Mayor's office, is expected to serve as a Jewish Liaison in the Community Affair Unit under Commissioner Marco A. Carrion, sources tell YWN.

Therefore, DioGuardi has made it his personal effort to reach out to the Jewish community in form of meeting and greeting Community Leaders, Editorial Board staff and Jewish voters in a half a dozen Downstate Counties, in addition to running ads in more than a dozen Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic News venues.

A smooth - talking bankrupt real estate investor, Stern, 40, is a member of the tight - knit Satmar Hasidic community in Monsey, N.Y., who helped local politicians win office by directing tens of thousands of his allies» dollars to campaign coffers and rallying the Orthodox Jewish community's support, sources said.

The government license plates on his SUV are registered to Kiryas Joel, a Jewish enclave in Orange County that's exclusive to people of Hasidic faith.

«They always appoint a liaison to the State Police, and that person's job is to handle all Jewish - related affairs in the areas where Hasidic families reside... but why is the Catholic priest or my reverend or my pastor not part of the State Police like this guy?

The school board is predominately made up of Hasidic Jews who send their children to private Jewish schools, also known as yeshiva's.

The sad thing is that our local community in New Square is described in Wikipedia as a place where «four Hasidic men created a nonexistent Jewish school to receive $ 30 million in education grants, subsidies, and loans from the U.S. federal government.

At issue is which warring faction of a Brooklyn - based Hasidic sect called Satmar will operate four Jewish summer camps in Wawarsing this year.

«Menashe» has a Hasidic producer, Danny Finkelman, described by Weinstein in the press notes as both a «key gatekeeper» to the Hasidic communities depicted in the film and one of the film's «Ultra-Orthodox Jewish advisors.»

«I called it the Hasidic Eraserhead when I first saw it, and we are making every prudent effort to market the film to both Jewish and young art - savvy audiences.»

The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.