Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is a rare holdout of both pre-Hasidic and pre-gentrification Williamsburg.
Hasidic shoppers in Williamsburg almost exclusively patronize ... In the food court, knots of women are chatting in Yiddish, one of them celebrating a grandmother’s birthday.
The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ... the men wear long beards and long black garb, while the women wear wigs or scarves and modest, if often quite ...
Crown Heights and Williamsburg.” As it stands, the squad of about 50 women also makes calls to Flatbush, Bensonhurst and ...
A health care administrator at a large Williamsburg clinic that serves mostly Hasidic patients said she ... taken as a given,” one Borough Park woman said of the idea that herd immunity is ...
Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany ...
Inside, however, two women shopped with their faces ... Mask wearing is not consistent. In Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community, mask wearing on the street is rare. “ ...