Several years ago, I attended a rooftop party in North Williamsburg alongside a bunch of hipsters who had names like Moshe, Uri, Chaya, and Faige. It didn’t take long for Uri,* a young man wearing a ...
A few years ago, the average American probably could not tell you what a Hasidic Jew was. But thanks to a set of shows running the gamut from serious scripted dramas to reality TV, that’s all changed.