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  • MY, have you posted on the hipster v. hasid battle on the paved over bike lane on Bedford ave in Brooklyn?

    Matthew Yglesias » Getting to Work 2010

  • Chef Jason Marcus of Traif demos his psychedelic foie gras, eggs, hot sauce, and maple gastrique, and also tells a memorable story about a rogue hasid who came in one night.

    Josh Ozersky: How Traif Came to Williamsburg Josh Ozersky 2010

  • Chef Jason Marcus of Traif demos his psychedelic foie gras, eggs, hot sauce, and maple gastrique, and also tells a memorable story about a rogue hasid who came in one night.

    Josh Ozersky: How Traif Came to Williamsburg Josh Ozersky 2010

  • Her father, a Habad hasid, was a timber merchant who set great store on educating his daughters and sent them to the “Heder ha-metukan,” headed by the Hebrew teacher Moshe Rubinchek.

    Hanna Rovina. 2009

  • There's a famous Hasidic story about a hasid going to learn with his rebbe not to learn any particular text, but rather to see how he ties his shoelaces.

    Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah Part 5: Choosing A Teacher 2009

  • At the stormy debates around the family Sabbath table — between her brother Eliyahu, a member of the Labor Zionist movement, Freiheit; her sister Zlatka, a Communist; and her father, a fervent hasid — Plotniczki would often throw out some witty, incisive remark that made everyone laugh, thereby diffusing the tension.

    Hantze Plotniczki. 2009

  • Little Hantze was especially pampered, even by her father, a pious hasid burdened by financial woes.

    Hantze Plotniczki. 2009

  • As Maimonides puts it, a person whose character traits are balanced can be called wise (hakham), while a person who goes beyond the mean when circumstances warrant is known as pious (hasid):

    Maimonides Seeskin, Kenneth 2008

  • I got there just in time to hear a 70-something hasid with a big white beard standing next to a tacky oil painting of R.

    gettin’ rebbe with it - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

  • I got there just in time to hear a 70-something hasid with a big white beard standing next to a tacky oil painting of R.

    2005 September - Danya Ruttenberg 2005

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