Lionel Blue – later to become a regular broadcaster on the BBC’s Thought for the Day and one of the most respected Jewish figures in the UK – recalled ... Members of the Hasidic community ...

with Hasidic communities is typical of these distortions. For half a decade now, I’ve been involved in efforts to counter negative stereotypes about ex-Orthodox people and promote openness ...

cites a Hasidic saying that non-Hasidic Jewish Orthodoxy is as different from Hasidism as "a stick from a caress. By them there's such strictness, but with Hasidim, the whole Jewishness comes with ...