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Jewish hipsters celebrate outsider identity / An emerging new movement can be seen uniting religion and pop culture in everything from T-shirts to Web sites By Lisa Alcalay Klug , Special to The ...
Jason Saft once believed Jewish cool was as incongruous an idea as, well, a Jewish James Bond. Growing up in Levittown, N.Y., Saft, 26, admits he felt “ashamed and embarrassed about being Jewish ...
A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew.
In a small, packed room in Los Feliz, young Jewish writers, artists and hipsters with beards, Buddy Holly glasses and a fair amount of flannel sit down to Shabbat dinner.
It’s hipsters v. Hasids, round two. This time the Brooklyn battleground isn’t Williamsburg but Crown Heights, home to a large West Indian and African American population, the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
It turns out that the Chabad-Lubavitch movement is looking for real estate from which they can better approach and try to reach Jewish hipsters. Seriously. TRE reportrs that Rabbi Menachem Heller ...
Less than a half-mile away from Chabad Lubavitch’s global headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway, is the local office of Repair the World, a progressive Jewish community service group.
A Long Island firefighter ran into a burning Chabad to save a sacred Sefer Torah from the flames on Wednesday -- as members of the local Jewish community raced to the scene in prayer.
Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch women gather before visiting the Ohel at Montefiore Cemetery, Feb. 20, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York City, during the Chabad-Lubavitch International Conference of ...
Welcome to the new progressive Jewish community growing in Crown Heights. Less than a half-mile away from Chabad Lubavitch’s global headquarters, 770 Eastern Parkway, is the local office of ...