03 Apr My Interview with Sara Braun, who joined the Hasidic community
This is an interview I did for my youtube channel...
Rabbis
21 Nov My final high holiday video: the Satmar Bagleiten
Episode 6 wraps up the holidays and ushers in the...
07 Nov This Election Day, Hasidim are voting on education
NY has a big gubernatorial race...
28 Aug My video with Pearl, Part 2
On the role of woman, insularity, Satmar rebbe, and more....
15 Jun 50 years ago in Williamsburg – Nathan Benn’s photography
Shot for the National Geographic in 1972 & 1973...
06 Apr Satmar Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum’s fierce anti-lockdown speech
A March 2020 speech against shutting down the community....
20 Jan Anatomy of the Hasidic Yiddish newspaper
Unpacking how news is censored and relayed in the Hasidic...
04 Dec The forbidden women’s music academy
A new saga in Williamsburg's gender and piety landscape...
17 Oct Irreverent Yiddish song: ‘I Want To Be A Rebbe’
https://youtu.be/TyjKCTZIbEk Here is a song that I love because it's irreverent...
27 May Building series: Satmar’s eyesore on 540 Bedford Avenue
It's now one of NYC's longest standing incomplete projects...
26 Aug Do Hasidim smoke?
Among Satmar Hasidic Jews, women never smoke. It’s really unheard...
22 Mar Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum’s New York Times obituary/1979
Read Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum's New York Times Obituary/1979...
16 Jun “Bagleiten,” a Satmar tradition
This bagleiten video is from June 30, 2016, in Williamsburg,...
08 Jun Shavuos 2016: neighborhood notes
Are you planning on passing by Hasidic Williamsburg on this...
10 Jul A Wedding officiated by R. Teitelaum and R. Feinstein
A 1954 wedding announcement in the Brooklyn Eagle made note...