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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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The Self-fulfilling Prophecies of the Ex-Hasid

June 18, 2010
By Samuel Katz
The Self-fulfilling Prophecies of the Ex-Hasid

Do ex-Hasidim serve themselves well by establishing a vibrant community? Or does such community only amplify the narrative of struggle and displacement, inevitably confining them to the fringes?

Samuel Katz, a student at Stony Brook University, examines some of the ex-Hasidic community's unintended consequences.


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