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A Life Apart: Hasidism In America -- Inside the Community: A Holy Life

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We use cookies to enhance your web experience, measure our audience, and collect useful information that allows PBS and our partners to tailor our marketing efforts. Click Cookie Settings to set your preferences or view more in our Privacy Policy There are no stations available for your selected ZIP Code. KQED helps your community explore new worlds and ideas through programs that educate, inform and inspire. Your tax-deductible donation helps make it all possible. INSIDE THE COMMUNITY: A HOLY LIFE An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively islands of traditional Jewishness in the midst of larger, racially diverse, working and middle class neighborhoods. The stores have signs in Yiddish and Hebrew; the men wear long beards and l

INSIDE THE COMMUNITY: A HOLY LIFE An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively islands of traditional Jewishness in the midst of larger, racially diverse, working and middle class neighborhoods. The stores have signs in Yiddish and Hebrew; the men wear long beards and long black garb, while the women wear wigs or scarves and modest, if often quite fashionable, clothing; the fast food restaurants serve kosher food; special Hasidic school buses…

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