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From Hasidic Shtetl To Catholic Utopia, A Portrait Of Poland’s “New Jerusalem”

Jews called their shtetl Ger in Yiddish and Gur in Hebrew. The community grew rapidly after 1859, when hasidic grand rebbe Yitzchak Meir Rothenburg, the founder of the Gerrer sect, settled here. After ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

After centuries of isolation, ultra-Orthodox Jews engage with the world more than ever

Tour participants walk past an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man during a tour by Frieda Vizel of the Hasidic section of Williamsburg in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP ...
The Forward

What’s a gender-segregated Hasidic pilgrimage like?

Anthropologist Samuel Shuman and Yiddish linguist Chaya Nove recently conducted a unique sort of joint fieldwork: they attended the annual Hasidic pilgrimage to Hungary that brings thousands of people ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Hasidic Jewish rabbis, including two from Central Arkansas, gather for conference in New York

Thousands of Hasidic rabbis from around the world, including two from Central Arkansas, traveled to New York for an annual Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries' conference that ended Sunday. The purpose of the ...
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What’s a gender-segregated Hasidic pilgrimage like?

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