as it often does among Reform, Conservative, and non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews.) Generally, a strong strain of traditional folk belief, including beliefs in the "evil eye" or particular omens ...

Hasidic enthusiasm, mysticism, storytelling, dance, and music, have held much appeal for other Jews. Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Jews have incorporated Hasidic melodies into their ...

Reform Judaism: The First Modern Jewish Sect In the 1800s, with the spread of enlightenment ideas in Europe, many Jews wanted to apply a more scientific background to their lives and promote ...

A concert at JCC Manhattan will celebrate “Kapelya,” the first recording of Hasidic nigunim performed exclusively by women. (JTA) — As a child growing up in the Chabad Hasidic community of ...

That has been her go-to since she was a kid growing up Hasidic in Williamsburg. “At the end of the day, if you just ask me what I want, I will choose the food I grew up with,” said Stein when ...

Titled “A storm is brewing in Rockland,” the video takes aim at the large and growing Hasidic Jewish community in the county, the specter of “overdevelopment” and a proposed yeshiva campus.

By Julia Jacobs One morning in 2015, a few years after she had begun to separate herself from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world in which she was raised, Abby Stein met with her father to come out as ...

An online course about the vibrant world of Hasidic creativity begins this Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Workers Circle. It will ...