Also opposing the ban are Hasidic Jews, who often wear the cake-shaped sable hats known as shtreimels on Shabbat and holidays. Made from the tails of sables and foxes, the hats can cost as much as ...

(JTA) — An unidentified man ran up to a group of Hasidic Jewish men and punched one in the head. The victim, who like the others with whom he was standing was wearing a shtreimel, a fur hat worn ...

leading some to comment on the uneasiness Jews feel toward their Hasidic "brothers." On the other hand, the Hasidim have influenced other American Jews to become, in some ways, a bit more like them.

Soon after its founding in the mid-eighteenth century by Jewish mystics ... who are apt to confuse Hasidic men, who wear beards, sidelocks, black hats, and long coats, with the similarly-dressed ...