Sentences with word «hasidic»

Legal action may be the next step in the controversy over the transfer of the Orange County town of Monroe to the neighboring Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel.

Set amidst a deeply religious community of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, Potok's novel challenges us to consider the nature of vocation, and the tensions that exist between an individual's calling and his or her commitment to a particular faith community.

Hasidim was the result of approximately two years spent with insular Hasidic Jewish communities in Brooklyn and the Catskills.

She represents a burgeoning bloc of Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but they belong to the rare faction that is anti-Zionist.

We also got our first glimpse of him in full Hasidic Jew get up.

The legislation would give county planners a say in proposals like one from the Orange County Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel.

Here's some footage of Carl Paladino meeting with Hasidic rabbis in Williamsburg earlier today, reading from remarks that his campaign says were prepared for him in advance by Orthodox supporters.

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.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo's campaign issued a scathing statement slamming his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, for telling Hasidic leaders in Williamsburg today that young people shouldn't be «brainwashed» into thinking homosexuality is a «valid» lifestyle option.

On Friday, March 24, the federal investigators interviewed the mayor regarding his relationship with Moishe Indig, a Williamsburg community board member and leader of the Aroni Satmar Hasidic sect, according to The New York Times.

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.

«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 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.

Governor Cuomo, we are delighted to know that you have an intimate and ongoing dialog with our poor Hasidic neighbors who happen to be living throughout one of the richest States of these United States.

Additionally, Clarkstown has a looming problem associated with a growing Hasidic population in neighboring Ramapo where the East Ramapo Central School District has essentially been raped.

Cops doled out fewer tickets to bad drivers in Williamsburg's Hasidic neighborhoods because the de Blasio administration covets their votes and needs to keep them happy, a source told the NY Post.

At noon, Young Advocates for Fair Education holds a press conference to release a report on the status of secular education at New York's Hasidic religious schools, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Richard came into contact with this tightly knit, highly insular, and extremely pious Hasidic group when he received his first pastorate in a largely black and Hispanic Lutheran congregation.

It detours into romantic seriocomedy when Fioravante plays masseur for an isolated Hasidic widow from Williamsburg (the gorgeous, touching Vanessa Paradis).

«There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts.

p. 399 f.; Martin Buber, Ten Rungs, Hasidic Sayings, trans.

While Sebastian Lelio reveals the austere manners and mores of the close - knit, cloistered community, his heavy - handed, one - sided, melodramatic depiction of sadly repressed, oppressed Hasidic women in frumpy, dark clothes follows Natalie Portman's «New York, I Love You» and Renee Zellweger's «A Price Above Rubies,» among others.

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.

CNN is reporting that the two terrorists were disguised as Hasidic Jews prior to the shooting.

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.

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.

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

It is a work of kitchen - sink realism told from an unusual perspective: an insular Hasidic community.

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

They have seen memories of Hasidic culture or a bridge between New York and his native Cologne, where he splits his time.

«Hasidic life in Borough Park has many similarities to how my great grandparents lived outside Warsaw,» Weinstein has said, emphasising his desire to achieve «a better understanding [of] myself and my ancestors» and allowing an «audience of outsiders» to «share moments of their everyday lives that are rarely seen».

When I heard there was a new romance about Hasidic Jews in Montreal premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, I was instantly...

«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?

There is a fine Hasidic tale of a rabbi who went to a place in the forest, lit a candle, said a prayer, and told a story.

CNN: Hasidic child sex abuse allegations Areas of Brooklyn, New York feel like a trip back in time.

The prayer was complete with lots of head bobbing which is typical of Hasidic prayer.

«While this targeted request was unconstitutional on its face, Plaintiffs and other Hasidic Jews nonetheless came forward and attested to their residency.

When Mr. Wiesenfeld — who previously served in a number of public offices, including a stint as George Pataki's executive assistant for New York City — was nominated to the CUNY Board in 1999, the Post reported that he had once referred to blacks as «savages» and had called Hasidic Jews «thieves.»

None of them will discuss any policy that might threaten the interests of Rockland's Hasidic leadership.

The people of Brooklyn are used to making history — and they did it again this year after voting in the country's first Hasidic Jewish woman, Rachel Freier, to serve in public office.

There is a marvelous story in Hasidic Judaism about a man lost in the forest.

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.»

Nearly half of the passengers on my overnight flight to Israel were dressed in traditional Hasidic attire — a dark three - piece suit and black hat, with long curly locks of hair known as «Payos.»

The visibly «Orthodox» supporters in the photo are hasidim, most likely Satmar hasidim, since Satmar is the largest hasidic sect and is based in Williamsburg, in the heart of Velazquez's old and new districts.

In the case of Holy Rollers, a news item about a drug bust involving Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn, New York inspired a novice producer to believe that this could be the springboard for a film... and he was right.

But his most important — and seemingly most unlikely — backer may have been Abraham Wieder, mayor of Kiryas Joel, an insular Hasidic enclave in New York's Orange County.

If you want to see genuine community life today, however, as a contrast to current theories, you could find it among Hasidic Jews and in many cases ultra-Orthodox Jews, who live in insular societies, teach fellow Jews or serve as merchants to their own religious folks, and rarely mix in the outside world.