America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Features a…
Inside the mysterious world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit, but divided, communityAron Hershkop runs an auto-repair business in Crown Heights, but also heads a volunteer community patrol called the Shomrim. When his brothers and colleagues try to stop …
"Inside the mysterious world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit, but divided, communityAron Hershkop runs an auto-repair business in Crown Heights, but also heads a volunteer community patrol called the Shomrim. When his brothers and colleagues try to stop…
"Inside the mysterious world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit, but divided, community. Features fast-paced writing and a true story with surprising twists, personal conflicts, and a tense trial - Illuminates important Lubavitch community issues and quest…
"Inside the mysterious world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit, but divided, communityAron Hershkop runs an auto-repair business in Crown Heights, but also heads a volunteer community patrol called the Shomrim. When his brothers and colleagues try to stop…
"Inside the mysterious world of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn's Crown Heights--a close-knit, but divided, communityAron Hershkop runs an auto-repair business in Crown Heights, but also heads a volunteer community patrol called the Shomrim. When his brothers and colleagues try to stop…
Part ethnography, part history, and part memoir, this volume chronicles the complex past and dynamic present of an ancient Mizrahi community. While intimately tied to the Central Asian landscape, the Jews of Bukhara have also maintained deep connections to the wider Jewish world…
