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Meet the New Piercing-Sporting, Drug-Munching, Rap-Loving Hasidim

The Juggalos, fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse, are to hip hop what the Hasidic movement was to Judaism

By Liel Leibovitz · August 16, 2013

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The Search for Utopia Reaches the End of the Road in ‘American Commune’

Sex and drugs and Passover Seders: In a new documentary, two sisters reflect on their years on The Farm in the 1970s

By Jennifer Bleyer · July 24, 2013

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‘Speed’ Levitch, Neo-Hasid

Is the free-associating tour guide and hipster icon, star of a Hulu original series, the hidden saint of our times?

By James Winchell · January 4, 2013

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Everything Is Regurgitated: Jewish Memory in the old Jerusalem of Ukraine

Living off of Jewish memory in old Chernowitz, once the Jerusalem of Ukraine

By Vladislav Davidzon · November 28, 2012

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Carlebach’s Broken Mirror

Shlomo Carlebach, who died 18 years ago this week, was a reflection of the pain of post-Holocaust Jewry

By Shaul Magid · November 1, 2012

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Divided Soul

A new biography examines the conflicting passions that animated the life and work of Dybbuk playwright S. An-sky

By Adam Kirsch · November 16, 2010

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American Messiah

It’s been 16 years since Menachem Schneerson’s death, but in a sense the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe is with us more than ever

By Adam Kirsch · July 20, 2010

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Sex, Kabbalah, and the Academy at Fringe

NYC theater festival starts this week

By Marissa Brostoff · August 13, 2009

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The Literatures of the Two Easts

Are Hasidism and Zen Buddhism kindred movements?

By Joshua Cohen · July 16, 2009

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Madonna’s Triptych

Children’s storybooks drawn from tradition can get sanctimonious. Does a pop star do any better with the stories of the Baal Shem Tov?

By Ayelet Waldman · September 29, 2004