Definitions
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- adjective of or relating to the Jewish Hasidim or its members or their beliefs and practices
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Examples
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The plane left from NYC, a city with a really large number of Orthodox Jews ranging from mondern to various shades of chasidic such as Satmar, Borbor and Lubavitch.
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The setting for “The Dybbuk” is an Eastern European chasidic town where two friends pledge that if they have a son and a daughter, the two will eventually marry.
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While approximately 300 "neo-chasidic" and "renewal" Jews, led by Orthodox rabbis Zalman Schachter and Shlomo Carlebach, commemorated the moment atop the Empire State Building, the event generated little media coverage, and most people who recited the blessing simply did so as a postscript to daily morning services in Orthodox synagogues.
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For the first time, song leaders taught the chasidic songs of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach alongside more modern Reform tunes.
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He was Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a giant in knowledge of Torah, spoke at least six languages fluently and, unlike all other chasidic leaders, received an extensive secular education at the Serbonne, University of Berlin and University of Moscow.
Upcoming ID meeting at Cold Spring Harbor - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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… He was Menachem Mendel Schneerson, a giant in knowledge of Torah, spoke at least six languages fluently and, unlike all other chasidic leaders, received an extensive secular education at the Serbonne, University of Berlin and University of Moscow.
Upcoming ID meeting at Cold Spring Harbor - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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New York's Jewish Week reports today that after nearly a year of investigation the city has turned the matter over to a chasidic rabbinical court a Bet Din in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Bet Din To Decide On Case Against Mohel Howard M. Friedman 2005
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One chasidic singer was banned from performing at a large charity concert, causing great loss to the charity, only to be reinstated the next year, both times without a reason.
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One chasidic singer was banned from performing at a large charity concert, causing great loss to the charity, only to be reinstated the next year, both times without a reason.
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One chasidic singer was banned from performing at a large charity concert, causing great loss to the charity, only to be reinstated the next year, both times without a reason.
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