Current Events

04 Apr The Return of the Tours!

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*STICKY* Announcing limited tour schedule for 2021...

25 Feb NBC’s show “Nurses” does Hasidic Jews

Posted at 16:52h in Current Events, Outsiders-Looking-In 0 Comments

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Hollywood can’t help thinking up a bunch of cliches...

16 Feb (Mis)Representing the Hasidic community positively

Posted at 11:14h in Current Events, Outsiders-Looking-In 1 Comment

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Peter Santanello's YouTube video of Hasidic life paints a cheery...

28 Jan Year in Review: Hasidim had similar Covid outcomes despite opening

Posted at 09:49h in Analysis, Covid19, Current Events 14 Comments

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While rejecting distancing and masks, the outcomes are still on...

09 Nov Sharing a glimpse into the city during Covid

Posted at 04:24h in Buildings, Covid19, Current Events, Street signs 3 Comments

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A walk in Boro Park ...

20 Oct Analyzing the fall 2020 COVID-19 situation in the Hasidic community

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A video post...

05 Oct Why I defend the Hasidic community

Posted at 14:11h in Analysis, Current Events, Leaving, On the tours 2 Comments

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A video post...

02 Oct A new October essay in the Forward

Posted at 11:33h in Analysis, Covid19, Current Events 3 Comments

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"Don’t call Hasidim anti-science. They kept COVID at bay all...

01 Oct Covid test? Only if you’re 100% healthy!

Posted at 05:05h in Analysis, Artifacts, Covid19, Current Events, Street signs 1 Comment

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Outsmarting the numbers...

28 Sep A shutdown of the NY Hasidic community?

Posted at 07:03h in Covid19, Current Events, Outsiders-Looking-In 2 Comments

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The Hasidic community is urging its members to mask up—but...

24 Jul Masks and Modest Clothing

Posted at 09:16h in Analysis, Artifacts, Clothing, Covid19, Current Events, Gender, Juxtopositions, Street signs 1 Comment

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If you had been brought up in the Hasidic community,...

04 Jun NYC has a curfew, and it makes me think of this police booth

Posted at 15:52h in Analysis, Buildings, Covid19, Current Events, Gender, Williamsburg 2 Comments

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Abandoned police booth an artifact of a different Williamsburg...

27 May The pandemic and persecution complex: A new Forward article

Posted at 14:27h in Analysis, Covid19, Current Events, History 0 Comments

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A new article on the persecution complex and COVID-19...

03 May Coronavirus in the Hasidic Community

Posted at 22:18h in Analysis, Covid19, Current Events 28 Comments

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A deeper look into numbers and media portrayal of the...

18 Apr I’m in a Dystopia Again

Posted at 11:35h in Analysis, Covid19, Current Events, Double Life, Juxtopositions, Leaving, My Essays 5 Comments

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Echos of a groupthink past in our "new normal"...

15 Dec Jersey City Attack

Posted at 16:53h in Current Events 2 Comments

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The rise of hate crimes against Hasidim...

07 Sep The bus tours and insensitive tourists

Posted at 20:07h in Current Events, On the tours, Williamsburg 1 Comment

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The NY Post wrote about the hordes of tourists that...

24 May A naked playboy model in Hasidic Williamsburg

Posted at 19:36h in Analysis, Current Events, Gender 3 Comments

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Opportunism pretending to be feminism. What else is new?...

30 Mar So much lazy journalism around the measles outbreak

Posted at 08:32h in Analysis, Current Events, Outsiders-Looking-In 4 Comments

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It's not correct to say that Hasidim are against vaccines....

09 Nov Apocryphal stories about Trump

Posted at 18:06h in Analysis, Current Events, On the tours 1 Comment

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A very nice Hasidic gentleman who works at one of...

06 Nov How the Hasidic Community Votes

Posted at 15:41h in Analysis, Artifacts, Current Events, Economy, Education, Street signs 1 Comment

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The best way to describe how the Hasidic community votes...

22 Sep Kavanaugh allegations and Hasidic censorship

Posted at 17:35h in Analysis, Artifacts, Censorship, Current Events, Juxtopositions 1 Comment

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Last Friday, I stopped into a deli and bought a...

23 Aug Why Hasidic boys’ educational standards are not enforced

Posted at 11:44h in Analysis, Current Events, Education, Gender, Q & A 1 Comment

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It’s really a question of: if the NYC Department of...

03 Aug Orthodox Politics: On Trump

Posted at 11:50h in Analysis, Artifacts, Current Events, Q & A 2 Comments

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A reader asked: Do Orthodox Jews support Trump? Answer: Many Hasidim did....

16 Jun Routine Announcement to Tenants in Yiddish

Posted at 17:01h in Analysis, Artifacts, Buildings, Current Events 0 Comments

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h/t Williamsburg News on Twitter...

24 Aug Free Palestine in Williamsburg

Posted at 16:44h in Analysis, Censorship, Current Events, Israel, Street signs 0 Comments

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This picture, of a plaque on Hewes Street in Williamsburg...

12 Jun Hasidic EMS treating Jehovah’s Witness

Posted at 20:14h in Analysis, Current Events, Kiryas Joel 0 Comments

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Since I wrote about the church in Kiryas Joel yesterday,...

30 May Artistic Illustration of Hasidim and Hipsters

Posted at 18:31h in Current Events 0 Comments

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Photo: Free Williamsburg magazine This is from the Free Williamsburg magazine's October...

13 May On the Fink Summit

Posted at 11:47h in Cartoons, Current Events, Leaving, My Essays 20 Comments

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Friends have been asking me about the meeting I attended...

16 Apr Messing around in my bedroom

Posted at 22:05h in Cartoons, Current Events 1 Comment

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Here's something different and very personal. It's a cartoon in...

01 Jan On Cartooning

Posted at 16:32h in Cartoons, Current Events 10 Comments

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It feels like it’s been longer, but it’s been only...

God is angry because he said holy shit, not holy shot

27 Aug On Honor Killings

Posted at 20:19h in Cartoons, Current Events 2 Comments

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Our history is soaked in the blood of honor killings;...

A Martian tells the Curiosity rover, Hey lady I need my space

16 Aug On invading Space

Posted at 22:27h in Cartoons, Current Events 1 Comment

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Mind you, not only long-eared Martians need space. Venusians too...

A superhero teaching pop culture by explaining how to pop someone with a gun

13 Aug On Pop Culture

Posted at 20:04h in Cartoons, Current Events 12 Comments

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Two recent frightening mass shootings in public places. Brings up...

Someone flying El Al in the $350 class, which is in a bag outside the plane

12 Aug On the El Al Giveaway

Posted at 12:15h in Cartoons, Current Events 1 Comment

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Did you hear about the El Al system glitch that...