Karas found no merit in the allegation that four Rockland County villages--Pomona, Wesley Hills, Chestnut Ridge, and Montebello, all in the Town of Ramapo--were established to discriminate again
Chassidim. (145) But it was acknowledged in the course of this litigation that the founders of these villages sought land use control, and that many suburban neighbors who observed land use choices made in Chassidic-governed villages did not want them duplicated in their own communities.
Rabinowicz ended by bringing the reader/listener/participant into the Hasidic tradition through the medium of group singing: "
Chassidim believe that in the highest heavens there is a sanctuary that song alone can unlock.
(188.) RABBI YEHUDAH HA-CHASSID, SEFER
CHASSIDIM, [section] 155, at 316-17.
Some people, I think the
Chassidim, use this rigid law for that; and I think dancers use dancing, and other people use, unfortunately, bombs.
song, have been integral to the practice of
chassidim from its founding
Life in a Religious Community: The Lubavitcher
Chassidim in Montreal.
But elsewhere she hastens to qualify her visionary proposition: for the backward "semi-Orientals, Kabalists and
Chassidim, who constitute the vast majority of East European Israelites, some more practical meas ure of reform must be devised" (Epistle 77).
Amazing!--and all the more so when I learn that over a quarter of these black-clad
chassidim work for Microsoft!
The development of Jewish and Catholic scholasticism and mysticism in pre-expulsion Spain and of later Christian Pietism and
Chassidim in Eastern Europe are obvious examples.
Since 1950, the Board of Deputies no longer represents British Jewry, which has become "pluralized" and "polarized" among
chassidim, the younger orthodox anxious to escape their parents' assimilationist past, the Sephardim, liberal and reform Jews, and the upwardly mobile (377).
"Montreal's
Chassidim Revisited: A Focus on Change." Essays in the Social Scientific Study of Judaism and Jewish Society.