Around Town

Several year ago, still sporting payess and a more-or-less Chasidic appearance, I met a girl in Greenwich village who stopped me on McDougal Street to tell me, “I think Hasidic Jews…

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From the comments on a Facebook invite for a traditional Friday night meal:

Host: “I need someone to help me with the zemiros.”

Token non-Jewish girl on the invite list: “What’s a zemiro?”…

The Bedford Avenue bike lane debate at Pete’s Candy Store last night brought a standing room only crowd – unfortunately, consisting mostly of bike lane supporters. There seems to have been no truce,…

Now it has an official name: the Great Williamsburg Bike Wars. (Although without a Wikipedia entry its status as a real war is somewhat suspect.) And tonight at 7:30 pm the debate…

Overheard at Shomrei Shabbos after last minyan ma’ariv:

Man in oversized yarmulke without a hat: “Gleib nisht ales vus men farkoift dir; di vest noch veren an apikoires.”

(Trans. Don’t believe everything you’re told.…

Overheard at Masbia Borough Park:

Chasidish man with clipboard to a buddy: S’iz geferlich. Far yede ein yid, hub ich gehat nein goyim.

So much for the kindness extended to all. It’s a new…