Sentences with phrase «by hasidic»

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

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 Sullivan County Board of Elections will be under the watchful eye of the federal government for the next five years and will have to pay more than $ 500,000 as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by Hasidic voters who accused the county of discrimination.

UPDATE1: This is being described as a «community meeting» with some 50 people attending and Lopez was invited by the Hasidic leaders.

One of the shopkeepers» attorneys told the Post, «Frankly, it's very troubling that the commission thinks it's OK for the Four Seasons restaurant to impose a dress code but not a bakery owned by a Hasidic businessman.»

Relevant here is a comment by Hasidic master Rabbi Jacob Leiner of Izbica in his gloss to the Passover Haggadah.

The explosion was reportedly triggered by the Hasidic Jews placing cell phones in the fire as a symbolic rejection of the secular world.

«I got set up by the Hasidics in New York.

Not exact matches

A Hasidic Jew presents problems to any organization since they are bound by a higher set of religious dogma that might not agree with established governmental policies.

The New York Post: Wheel strict: Hasidic schools banning bikes Hasidic schools run by the United Talmudical Academy in Brooklyn are putting the brakes on kids riding bicycles to school, warning parents in a letter that students will be expelled for any free - wheeling offense.

Yet Hasidic life is characterized first of all by its wholly personal mode of faith, and it is only through the action of this faith that a community is formed.

In Potok's The Chosen it is the rigid orthodoxy and ascetic demands of an apparently harsh Hasidic father which create the test faced successfully by Danny (bolstered by the friendship of Reuven).

This model seems more intellectual, personally more reticent, and spiritually more austere than the emotionally exuberant Hasidic masters featured by Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and their successors.

by Maurice S. Friedman, p. 161 f.; Israel and the World, «The Faith of Judaism,» pp. 21 - 24; Hasidism, «Spirit and Body of the Hasidic Movement,» p. 79, «Symbolical and Sacramental Existence in Judaism,» p. 142 f. Cf. Moses, p. 22 f. for Buber's contrast between «technical magic» and «magic of spontaneity.»)

An ancillary fable from the teaching of the Hasidic the master Menahem Mendel of Kotzk, as recounted by Martin Buber in his Tales of the Hasidim: The Later Masters (Schocken).

Yet amid all the casual summer wear, in some neighborhoods more than others, Hasidic men wear dark three - piece suits crowned by black hats made of rabbit fur, and Hasidic women outfit themselves in long - sleeved blouses and nearly ankle - length skirts.

By Dan Merica and Eric Weisbrod, CNN Washington (CNN)-- It has been a year since Matisyahu, the famed Hasidic reggae star, shaved his beard, separated from his devout following of Orthodox Judaism and said he was ready for a «rebirth.»

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.

Although estranged by the conspicuous grandeur of the zaddik (the leader of the Hasidic community) and by the wild gestures of the Hasidim in prayer, when he saw the rebbe stride through the rows of the waiting he felt that here was a leader, and when he saw the Hasidim dance with the Torah, he felt that here was a community.

But as an Orthodox Hasidic Jew «it is absolutely forbidden in my religious beliefs to cut or trim my beard in any way,» Litzman wrote in a March 18 statement to NYPD officials, provided to CNN by Lewin.

One day on reading a saying by the founder of Hasidism about the fervour and daily inward renewal of the pious man, he recognized in himself the Hasidic soul, and he recognized piety, hasidut, as the essence of Judaism.

Even though he has been deeply troubled by the silence of the Lord God of Israel since his Bar Mitzvah in his father's hasidic synagogue in 1934, Arthur Hertzberg has chosen to remain a believer.

A reader forwarded this clipping that covered Andrew Cuomo's meetings yesterday with Hasidic leaders in Brooklyn and directed by attention to the second photo, which shows the AG at the home of Rabbi Zalmen Leib Teitelbuam, who, according to the caption:

Mordechai Hager, who died in March at age 95, founded a Hasidic village called Kaser in Rockland County, where he owned several properties and where Isaac Hager, who goes by the nickname Itzy, was raised.

By an overwhelming majority, voters in the Town of Monroe approved a proposition to allow creation of a new Hasidic Town of Palm Tree.

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.

By virtue of the fact that the the city's other large Hasidic populations — in Crown Heights, Bedford - Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg — are represented by non-Jews, Hikind has at times been a de facto spokesman for Hasidic causes in New York CitBy virtue of the fact that the the city's other large Hasidic populations — in Crown Heights, Bedford - Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg — are represented by non-Jews, Hikind has at times been a de facto spokesman for Hasidic causes in New York Citby non-Jews, Hikind has at times been a de facto spokesman for Hasidic causes in New York City.

At a recent fundraiser for the Bobov Hasidic group attended by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council member David Greenfield told the crowd that de Blasio «did not forget his friends.»

It's appalling that NY politicians (including Andrew Cuomo and Bill DeBlasio) would condemn the the oppression of women by those abroad yet kiss the behinds of Hasidic leaders here in NYS.

The heart of the standoff is a Hasidic housing project proposed by a controversial developer named Shalom Lamm.

Even if Hayworth had gotten 100 % of the Hasidic vote last time, Maloney still would have won by a healthy 6,982 votes.

Wiesenfeld was initially appointed to the CUNY Board by Pataki in June 1999 and was approved by the Senate after a testy public hearing during that focused on his alleged use of objectionable language in describing Hasidic Jews and African Americans.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's deep ties to the Bobov Hasidic group have put him on the defensive, amid a scandal over a nursing home chain run by a prominent Bobov businessman.

Lettre had to make a deal with Orthodox and Hasidic rabbis in 2012 to maintain control of the Conservative Party when faced with a challenge by former party chair Nick Longo, and it is likely the rabbis will be asking for a return on their investment this year.

The clemency came on Clinton's last day in office, after the Hasidic town had overwhelmingly voted for Hillary for Senate — by a margin of 1,400 to 12.

A SoP reader forwarded this sample ballot being handed out in Kiryas Joel, the Orange County village of Hasidic Jews that is routinely courted by elected official and candidates due to the ability of its leaders to deliver large blocs of voters on Election Day.

A SoP reader who has been keeping track of votes in the Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel in Orange County said it looks like the support for the congressman by one of the village's two political factions netted him about 5,000 votes (in other words, more than Maloney's margin of victory — this number has been fixed).

Landlord Moishe Indig and other leaders of Williamsburg's Hasidic community are being questioned by federal investigators in their widening probe into Mayor Bill de...

By overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all - Satmar Hasidic town.

Orange County Legislature votes to allow Kiryas Joel referendum to «secede» from Monroe BY KATHY KAHN By overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all - Satmar Hasidic towBY KATHY KAHN By overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all - Satmar Hasidic towBy overwhelming majority, the Orange County Legislature last week agreed to allow the Town of Monroe to put a referendum on its November 7 ballot to create an all - Satmar Hasidic town.

4) Violation of Local Laws Governor Cuomo, did you by any chance share with our Hasidic neighbors that they are frequently accused of violating numerous laws in Rockland and Orange Counties particularly those to do with housing and zoning laws?

Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer genius, finds himself pursued by Wall Street traders and a Hasidic cabal in this award - winning film.

(During production the cast and crew was often shooed off by grocers and other local Hasidic business owners.)

Those who flout the established taboos often face such harsh consequences as losing their jobs, their homes or custody of their children, so the Hasidic actors who appeared in the film courted peril and banishment simply by taking part.

That's telegraphed both by his wardrobe (is his black, flat - brimmed hat a hipster, an Amish or a Hasidic accouterment?)

Directed by Kevin Asch, from a screenplay by Antonio Macia, the film is inspired by actual events in the late 1990s when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

12:00 M — IFC — Pi Darren Aronofsky's first feature is this fever dream of a mathematician searching for the numeric patterns that will unlock the secrets of the stock market — paranoid, fearful of human contact, and beset by terrible headaches, he's also pursued by Wall Street factions and Hasidic Jews, each seeking the results of his formulas.

«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.»

None of these women are given any inner life outside of their function as catalysts for actions taken by the two main male characters; even when Avigal finally takes control of her own agency in a climactic scene involving a makeshift Hasidic court, it's only as the result of a male's tender touch.