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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 ...
The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ... the men wear long beards and long black garb, while the women wear wigs or scarves and modest, if often quite ...
Married women cover their hair with a wig or ... Today, as a tour-guide of the Hasidic area of Williamsburg, she meets people from all around the world, but who still share a culture.
This approach seems more appropriate and useful as family life is central in the Hasidic ideology and lifestyle. And, because women are less visible in the public Hasidic world than men are ...
Based on her memoir, “Becoming Eve” explores Stein’s journey from her Hasidic Williamsburg upbringing to becoming a prominent writer and activist. When Abby Chava Stein ...
The irony is, the actress playing the young, Hasidic bride-to-be Rebecca ... of her strict Haredi upbringing in Williamsburg, where marriage for women means, “You hardly ever see each other ...
Teitelbaum, who is based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is not the first Hasidic leader to test positive for the virus. His own brother and leader of a rival faction of the Satmar Hasidic community ...
Rabinowitz, who also goes by Yadler, and Dushinsky, are members of Hasidic communities in Williamsburg, and frequently partner with other Hasidic developers, including Joel Gluck’s Spencer Equity, ...