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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Hipsters and Jews: The clash of cultures in Crown Heights The Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish community is clearly resistant to integrating with the hipsters. By ELIYAHU FEDERMAN JANUARY 29, 2012 22:16 ...

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 ...

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 ...