While hair covering is a common practice across many Jewish communities, some Hasidic women take the observance of modesty a step further by shaving their heads entirely. This practice is specific ...

leading some to comment on the uneasiness Jews feel toward their Hasidic "brothers." On the other hand, the Hasidim have influenced other American Jews to become, in some ways, a bit more like them.

A direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder ... "I want to have long hair! Why can my sisters have long hair and I can't?" At 13, I had my bar mitzvah, which is when a boy becomes a man ...

cites a Hasidic saying that non-Hasidic Jewish Orthodoxy is as different from Hasidism as "a stick from a caress. By them there's such strictness, but with Hasidim, the whole Jewishness comes with ...

It also shows Ausch slowly breaking away from Orthodox Judaism, eschewing long skirts and a wig for pants and her natural hair, which was shaved according to a Hasidic custom. But there was one ...

Hasidic philosophy is beautiful: the Baal ha’Tanya stresses the divine spark inside each of us, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev argues with the Creator on his fellow Jew’s behalf.

Not only was the music original and beautiful to listen to, the collaboration of a Hasidic Jew and a Muslim through music was truly inspiring. But Matisyahu is all about combining opposites in his ...