Hasid

1 Nuns, Hasids, punks, Rastas, preps, and everyone else either too distinct or too nondescript to fit any particular label squeeze together behind a police barricade as if expecting the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

2 But Eisenberg adds complexity to the role of the sheltered, idealistic Hasid who discovers he has a taste for the secular life.

3 “Substitute ‘black’ for ‘Hasid,’ ” he said, and his opponents would be “horrified” to question his right to sell his townhouses to whomever he wishes.

4 The couple told me that they were flying to Israel that summer to stay with their eldest son, who was a Hasid.

5 Another Hasid at G&B checking out the frock coats, which sell for $149 in summer versions and $250 in heavier, winter styles, acknowledged a down side to the customary dress.

6 Another features a goofy Hasid who grins at the viewer from a street out of another century.

7 In fact, Mr. Levin is not, strictly speaking, a Hasid, though he wears the familiar black hat and coat of those who are.

8 I was invited to the wedding and was the only one there who wasn’t a Hasid.

9 I opened the windows and watched the Hasids walk past.

10 “I live there, I pay that mortgage,” one resident shouted at a security officer who decreed, upon close inspection, that one Hasid’s vehicle was not obstructing the path.

11 Marina observes with disgust about her demoralizing first job cleaning for wealthy Hasids that their wall-to-wall carpets "were like a bib for the house, soaking up everything that never made it to the mouth."

12 For example, if the son of a Hasid married the daughter of a Mitnaged, both fathers would say Kaddish after their children, considering them to be dead and buried.

13 I could watch the kids go by from the window—skinny Hasids with side-curls and Filipinos with pretty ribbons and teenagers who smoked, but I couldn’t go to them.

14 Hot and cold is all in the mind anyway, argued Shea Hecht, a Lubavitch Hasid who heads the movement’s educational outreach arm.

15 Like the Hasid’s black hat or the Muslim’s kufi, it’s what he acquires when he joins the community, and it’s what he gets rid of when he leaves.

16 The average Hasid comes into contact with hundreds of people daily and shutdowns bring up dark memories for descendants of Holocaust survivors.

17 Foxman pointed out that Galliano was wearing blue, not black like a Hasid, and a gray hat without the standard wide brim.

18 If he was a Hasid, he had exchanged his fur shtreimel for a deerstalker cap and traded in his somber frock coat for a green Norfolk jacket.

19 He was dressed like a Hasid, but he didn’t sound like one.

20 “God in Borough Park is like steel in Bethlehem,” joked Alexander Rapaport, a Hasid who runs Masbia, a soup kitchen organization.