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

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

By Shulem Deen

June 18, 2010 / 7 comments

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 are so fucking cool. Those curls …


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Tags: Around Town, Chulent, conforming, counter-culture, Elke Reva Sudin, film, Isaac Schonfeld, Levi Okunov, modernity, off the derech, parties, Y-Love, Yitz Jordan
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