Hasidic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Hasidism, a Jewish sect founded in Poland in the 18th century.
The documentary offers a glimpse into the daily life of a Hasidic community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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being a member of this sect.
The movie follows Meira, a young Hasidic mother in Montreal's Mile End district.
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Nourafchan, who attended high school in Los Angeles, was active in a campus group organized around Chabad, a Hasidic Jewish organization, according to a 2015 article in Washingtonian magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
The victims included Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who led the local Chabad mission, an international Hasidic Jewish group that organised the event.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Growing up as one of 10 kids in a Hasidic Jewish family in Brooklyn, the comedian says she has always been most comfortable in a crowd.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
Alex Kleytman was a native of Ukraine and a Holocaust survivor, according to a website of the Chabad movement, which represents a branch of Hasidic Jews and organised the Bondi event.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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