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“Punk Jews”: Film, Movement, and Party of the Summer

June 18, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
“Punk Jews”: Film, Movement, and Party of the Summer

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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Seriously, Man

March 11, 2010
By Baal Devarim
Seriously, Man

A Serious Man has been called hilarious comedy, genius high-brow tragedy, the best Coen brothers film, the Jewy-est, most auto-biographical Coen brothers film, a modern day story of Job, a medieval story of a dybbuk, and much else besides. But mostly it has been called dark and funny, confusing and mysterious. Dark and...
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