Music
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
Notebook
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
The Internet
‘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
Book Reviews
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
Music
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
Book Reviews
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
Book Reviews
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
The Scroll
Sex, Kabbalah, and the Academy at Fringe
NYC theater festival starts this week
By
Marissa Brostoff
· August 13, 2009
Book Reviews
The Literatures of the Two Easts
Are Hasidism and Zen Buddhism kindred movements?
By
Joshua Cohen
· July 16, 2009
Book Reviews
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
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