2021年6月23日 · Women serve as important agents of ultra-Orthodox Jewish observance and faith, transmitting Hasidic belief and practices to their children and to new generations of followers.

Hasidic women represent a unique face of American Judaism. As Hasidim — ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to sectarian communities, worshiping and working as followers of specific rebbes — they are set apart from assimilated, mainstream American Jews.

2020年6月17日 · Based on the true story of Deborah Feldman, a Jewish woman who left the Satmar community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in search of a new life, the hit Netflix series “Unorthodox” has brought...

2018年9月19日 · The photographer Sharon Pulwer was given a rare invitation to enter the private world of Brooklyn’s most Orthodox Jewish women.

2017年2月28日 · I've gotten a few messages from readers wanting to learn more about women in Hasidic life and Hasidic women rules. So I decided to write a post about the "takanot" or decrees in the Toldos Aharon sect that relate to women.

In many Hasidic Jewish communities, some married women shave their heads as part of a tradition rooted in modesty, spirituality, and religious law.

Hasidism (Hebrew: חסידות, romanized: Ḥăsīdūt) or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival movement in contemporary Western Ukraine before spreading rapidly throughout Eastern Europe.

Most Hasidic women who work outside the home (usually after their children are grown) are employed by close relatives in their small businesses, or by the community as teachers, administrators...

Far from pioneering the equality of men and women in Judaism, however, the H asidic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries conceptualized gender in conventional terms drawn unquestioningly from the classical rabbinic, philosophical, and kabbalistic sources.

Hasidic Jews generally separate men and women and insist that they have different, complementary roles in Jewish life. This antiegalitarianism creates distinct, gendered forms of religious expression, which Traczewska’s pictures make legible.

2024年3月5日 · Williamsburg moms learning dance moves inspired by modern jazz, Zumba, and mambo. A Hasidic woman from Flatbush singing songs by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston on Instagram. Just a decade ago, these scenes would have been hard to come by, according to scholar Jessica Roda.

Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millennia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic literature), by custom, and by cultural factors. Although the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic literature present various female role models, religious law treats women in specific ways.

In January 2023, Freier was appointed as acting New York Supreme Court justice by her supervisors to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, Religious leaders say she is the first Hasidic woman to hold this role.

2024年9月11日 · The details of what it means to live as an empowered Hasidic woman, integrating work outside the home with being the CEO of the domestic sphere, comes down to everyday choices, honoring my own desires, and continually learning the Torah of the Rebbe to clarify my path forward.

2020年9月11日 · For Hasidic women, this means dressing and acting modestly, marrying early and having many children. “I was married off through a matchmaker before I was 17. Before the wedding, I had met my husband only twice for less than half an hour,” Rocheleh says.

2009年8月9日 · Investigating how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern, Mitzvah Girls offers exciting new insights into cultural production and change in nonliberal religious communities.

All rooted in Jewish wisdom and the light of Chassidus. The Hasidic Feminist is a platform for writing, resources, and community. Through regular podcast appearances, articles, public speaking, virtual classes and farbrengens, Chava is building this community of women who want to elevate the world.

In the past year, she has gained fame as the first Hasidic woman elected as a judge in Brooklyn, where she serves in a criminal court. Ruchi Freier on the job. Freier had an uphill battle to establish Ezras Nashim in Borough Park, where the all-male Hatzolah was first established in …

Women rabbis and Torah scholars are Jewish women who have received formal semikhah (rabbinic ordination) as rabbis or are recognized for their studies and contributions to Jewish religious tradition, respectively.

2022年6月25日 · Some women from the hassidic community were innovators, like Sara Schenirer (1883-1935), who came from a family of Belzer Hassidim and was a pioneer in Jewish women’s education. There were...

2025年2月25日 · A branch of Hasidic Judaism, the Chabad movement was founded in the late 18th century and traces back to Belarus. Under the leadership of the Rebbe, who ran the organization from 1950 until he ...

2025年2月26日 · En este video, exploramos la fascinante vida de los judíos hasídicos, una comunidad ultraortodoxa conocida por su devoción religiosa, tradiciones únicas y el...

6 天之前 · In Hasidic theology, he said emphatically, the entire world, to its benefit, will one day be ruled by women. He led us into an alley and stopped walking so he could make his points with more ...