Sentences with phrase «with hasidic»

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?

«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 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:

GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino made another foray to Brooklyn today to meet with Hasidic leaders, but did not manage to sit down with Rabbi Yechezkel Roth, who reportedly cancelled at the last minute, according to a source familiar with schedule.

The caption read: «A police officer scuffling with a Hasidic man yesterday on President Street»

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.

So at best, if he really did exist, he would have been fairly dark - skinned, bearded, with dark hair and dark eyes, not unlike the pictures of Hasidic Jews at the Wailing Wall.

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.

Hasidic teaching is like psychoanalysis, writes Buber, in that it refers one from the problematic of external life to that of the inner life, and it shows the need of beginning with oneself rather than demanding that both parties to a relationship change together.

I have wept with salt - faced abandon as four women prayed over me; I have walked through a «fire tunnel»; I have seen a woman bob in Hasidic fashion over the Bible app on her smartphone.

Singer's pessimism reminds one of the Hasidic story of the sentinel who was hired to sit outside the city gate and to come running with the news of the Messiah's arrival.

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

CNN: Q and A with Matisyahu: «Hasidic reggae superstar» sans the Hasidim 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.»

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.

I'm a christian but I lived in a Hasidic community for a long time and I would argue that sects of Judaism have just as much problem with social standards as anyone else.

This accorded with the mystical a-cosmism, the denial that the world has any existence separate from God, characteristic of the Hasidic movement in Eastern Europe.

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.

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.

The Hasidic kavanah «signifies less an effort of the will centred on the attainment of a definite end than the purposeful direction of the whole being in accordance with some feeling springing from the depths of one's nature.»

On some days you're with both the long hair [Hasidic men grow long ringlets of hair] and the short hair from scene to scene, so [it was] hard to stay on the chronology.

The Hasidic attitude toward the law, revelation, and the life of the senses is consistent with its concept of kavanah.

According to this reader, the AG held three brief meetings with key Hasidic leaders at which Lopez was present for at least two — the sit - down with Zalman and also, as Maggie Haberman reported earlier today, and another meet - and - greet with the Pupa Grand Rabbi.

Hasidic leaders accused Bloomberg of re-negging on a campaign promise not to interfere with their right to perform this procedure, although the administration insisted no such agreement was ever formally struck.

UPDATE: Paladino's campaign manager Michael Caputo confirmed that Roth did not, in fact, show up as planned, but also shrugged this off, saying the point of the day was never to only meet with leaders, but rather to sit down with the «grassroots» of the Hasidic community.

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

Kiryas Joel, a growing Hasidic community in Orange County, has been battling with neighboring municipalities and legislators over its plan to annex over 500 acres of land, which Cuomo in the past has described as unconstitutional.

Her campaign distributed an Election Day mailer to Orange County voters picturing hundreds of Hasidic boys with losing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall.

While Velázquez dominated across the Lower East Side, Queens, and Brownstone Brooklyn, she managed to keep pace with Dilan in the Hasidic sections of Williamsburg, where about 40 percent of ballots were cast in her favor, according to early poll return data.

Not for some one - time pancake flipper with no legislative experience from friggin» Fredonia, not some old guy who won in a heavily Hasidic district that was mad at the world, not some county comptroller from Long Island with no legislative experience who will never spend $ 5 million of his own money (they always lie... just ask Paladino), not Harry Wilson who I like but is turning into Harold Stassen.

Sources familiar with the meetings said Lopez also showed up at a meeting of the Vien Hasidic group.

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 Pros are that Felder has experience with Bloomberg, maybe able to provide useful insights on the man; he's got clout with large parts of the Hasidic community; and he has actual experience in the Comptroller's office.

Rumors circulating in Rockland County that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman utilized FBI informant Mark / Moses / Moshe Stern as a go - between with the Rockland Hasidic community in the recent past are greatly exaggerated, Schneiderman's office told the Rockland County Times.

Recently, investigators have been zeroing in on de Blasio's relationship with rabbi and political fundraiser Moishe Indig, a leader in Williamsburg's Hasidic community who hosted a fundraising event for the mayor in Oct. 2013, The New York Times reported.

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

Meyers was very blunt in his comments about the situation with the growing Hasidic community in Rockland County.

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.

Orthodox and especially ultraobservant Hasidic Jews, who considered childbearing an essential duty not to be interfered with, were the last branch of Ashkenazim to take advantage of Tay - Sachs screening.

Occasional passing shots of Orthodox men garbed in traditional heavy black coats and hats have an almost Edward Gorey-esque surrealness to them, and yet what makes the film so engaging is the thoroughness with which it humanizes and renders accessible the hermetic Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Contemporary screen depictions of Brooklyn's Hasidic community — for instance Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies or Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us — have tended to raise eyebrows with their meshuggeneh casting of Hollywood recruits like Renee Zellweger and Melanie Griffith, and their sometimes patronizing perspective on the exotic otherness of a mysterious, insular world.

The Hasidic Jews» traditional dress may serve as a barrier on the street, and the film does indulge itself occasionally in playing on the incongruity of the suited and hatted men making their way around modern New York, but seeing the generalities of life reflected in such a particular setting amounts to a genuinely powerful insight into some of the universal themes of love, sacrifice and (gentle) self - improvement that are here handled with a charmingly light touch.

After first setting this budding escort up with a doctor (Sharon Stone) and her friend (Sofía Vergara), Allen eventually hazards that Turturro's services might do wonders for — yes — a Hasidic widow (Vanessa Paradis), whose sudden visits to Manhattan stoke the ire of a lovelorn Orthodox cop (Liev Schreiber).

This religious - fish - out - of - water narrative involving the Hasidic community has been well trod in films before, but in the hands of filmmaker Sebastain Leilo and his more than capable cast, Disobedience doesn't treat it with anything less than striking intelligence and humane interactions.

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.

Liev Schreiber is a hopelessly in love Hasidic police officer dealing with his own set of rules.

As brüno travels the world in search of fame, everyone he encounters — celebrities, politicians, Hasidic Jews, terrorists and cage fighters — becomes a stepping - stone to stardom, with hilarious results!

And while Avrech's script often proves an eye - opening look at the seriously backwards Hasidic community, A Stranger Among Us suffers from an excessively deliberate pace that effective highlights the less - than - engrossing storyline - with Emily and Ariel's burgeoning romance striking all the wrong notes throughout (ie there's just no chemistry between these two disparate figures).

Several unhappy incidents leave him vulnerable to a neighboring young man, Yosef (well played by Justin Bartha), a Hasidic Jew who's gone over to the dark side and tempts Sam with easy money.

To anyone suggesting I'm anti-Semitic for identifying a man as Hasidic who hit my daughter's stroller in a crosswalk with a car then rolled his window down, wagged his finger and told me «Watch where you're going»: I will not be bullied or intimidated by you.»

«If anyone in Brooklyn near the intersection of Washington Ave and Atlantic Ave just saw a Hasidic man in a grey van try to hit a woman and her baby in a stroller as she crossed a crosswalk, honking and touching the stroller with the car's bumper, please DM me.