MUSIC VIDEO: Hassidic prayerful dancing

Published on January 17, 2008

Joyous prayerful singing a la Rav Shlomo Carlebach? Sure. Now how about some prayerful dancing!

Brachacadabra

By David Suissa
Published on July 19, 2007

You haven't lived until you've waited three hours in a cramped living room waiting to see a Chasidic rebbe so that you can ask him, at 1 a.m., for a bracha to meet the man of your dreams; or for your wife to recover from cervical cancer; or to do well in your med school entrance exams; or, simply, to ask him whether you should start a low-end schmatta line that you'll produce in China, and, if he says yes, to get a bracha that you'll succeed.

Nourish Your Soul With a Helping of Jewish Learning

By Michele Alperin
Published on August 24, 2006

Many Reform Jews express their connection with the divine through social action and tikkun olam, fixing God's world. While all of these are also part of my own life as a Jew, it is study that nourishes my rationalist-traditionalist soul and links me to another realm.

Rebels: The Other Face of Chasidim

By Hella Winston
Published on November 24, 2005

Stan is deeply attracted to the Lubavitch way of life: He longs for a wife and house full of children and is drawn by the prospect of fully expressing his Jewish identity as a member of a tight-knit community, steeped in Jewish tradition and insulated from the pressures of modern life.

Jewels of Our Lives

By Reb Mimi Feigelson
Published on September 25, 2003

There are stories that one needs to hear many times in order to remember them, in order to file them in a manner that they can be retrieved when needed.