PBS8y
SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA
The neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Boro Park developed into Hasidic centers at a slower pace then Williamsburg. The largest and most influential court in Crown Heights is the Lubavitch ...
PBS3y
INSIDE THE COMMUNITY: A HOLY LIFE
The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively islands of traditional Jewishness in the midst of larger, racially diverse, working and middle class neighborhoods.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency8y
A Brooklyn judge becomes America’s first Hasidic woman to serve in public office
(JTA) — For much of her adult life, Rachel Freier has been a trailblazer in her Hasidic Brooklyn community of Borough Park: a lawyer, an advocate for higher education, the director of an all ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
‘Who’s not going to go?’: NY Hasidic Jews continue to hold large weddings despite COVID rules
Hasidic life has never been conducive to staying ... As the COVID test positivity rates increased in Borough Park and Midwood in October, Cuomo created a new system meant to target “micro ...