How Much Do People Know About Orthodox Jews? (Man on the Street )
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- How much does your average New Yorker know about Orthodox Jews? Find out here! JewintheCity.com
Filmed by Arielle Burstein
Edited by Elie Gabor elie@eliecreative.com
Outfit by mayasplaceny.com
Makeup by Alex @sandrunia on Instagram
I’m not Jewish but my husband is, tho he was raised reformed. I’m loving your videos!
I was a home care nurse for years and went to what I now realize was an orthodox home to care for the wife who had been in a car crash. They had kids and grandkids.
From watching your videos I now can see I did everything wrong, socially, and it’s amazing they let me come back!
I admit that my parents brought me up as conservative, not orthodox, but we were always taught that there is no conflict between Judaism and the teachings of science. Science is our way of understanding how G-d made the world. As for judging the behavior of others (conformance to all of the myriad rules and regulations, whatever), that judgment is left to G-d. No human being has the right to intervene between the individual and G-d. A live-and-let-live philosophy that still resonates with me.
+Steve Scheiber your answer rocks !
I'm curious what the reactions would have been in a city that is not nyc
hopefully people would say nice kind things:D
My (later in life chassidic) friend and her husband often invited me and my husband (btw gay) to shabbat dinners at their house. Pure solidarity. I know that not all Jews are like that, I mean, not all Jews are like me, but little acts of kindness like that made me feel proud to be a Jew.
Hey this northern Virginian Christian would have aced your test!
Great, glad to see that you are back to doing videos.
When you first showed the image of the 2 men on opposite side, I thought for a second there that you were showing Rabbi Willig. Good video-- you should do it more often.
One of my favorite authors is Herman Wouk, I believe that as I write this he is still alive. Like a biblical patriarch, his good life has been reward w/ many years. I have read many of his books. In This Is My God, he talks about being a "Modern Orthodox," the 1st time I ever heard of the term.
As for the whole head shaving & wigs issue, it is my understanding that some rabbi at some point ruled that a married woman may only wear a wig as her head cover if she shaves her head. Actually the shaving of the head & the wearing of wigs was quite common back then as many common diseases ruined the hair in some way & so people just wore wigs. Rich people had very elaborate wigs, hence the expression "big wigs." There also used to be a political party called the Whig Party. Lincoln was actually 1st elected as a Whig.
On the wig (not Whig) & head covering question, if a woman is widowed or divorced, does she go back to not wearing a wig or does she continue after her husband is gone?
Thank you Jew in the city!
your definition of "orthodox" is very atypical. in bais yaakov of boro park they tore the sections on dinosaurs, evolution, etc out of textbooks and told us to randomly guess those parts on tests. very nice that you live so freely, but let's not pretend it's the norm.
thanks for your comment. i'm aware that much of the charedi world is this way. which is why the answer we selected as "correct was "some are like this and some are like that." we're not trying to say what's "norm," we're saying what exists within the spectrum of orthodoxy. also, FYI, we started a new initiative for ex-Charedim who want access to the more modern parts of the Orthodox world as we found out that some people are looking for this but don't know how to gain access jewinthecity.com/project-makom
Jew in the City nice thought, but i just don't like god enough to fit him into my life. something about the obligatory bigotry, blatant manipulation, and that genocidal temper tantrum where even HE was like "whoa, i am never doing THAT again" (sorry sorry sorry, tell you what, here's a rainbow, we cool?) afterwards just puts me off for some reason.
Deanchester16 just wanted to let you know that this service is available, but not telling you what to do or believe. for whatever it's worth, i believe the essence of begin a religious Jew is respecting the divine spark in all of creation and being a mentsch. there are certainly challenging sections of the Torah, though. best of luck to you!
Wow.
Deanchester16 well - i believe that most religions are founded on similar principles of kindness and increasing peace in the world. what's unique about the Jewish people is we brought monotheism to the world and despite being torn down again and again throughout the millennia, we rise up from the ashes and still strive for a perfected world. of course any mitzvah can be corrupted and turned into something bad, but that is a problem. and it makes me sad when people only were exposed to the negative b/c i've been blessed to see so much positive and gain so much strength and meaning from it.
"Orthodox" is NOT the same as "Hasidic". The Hasids were from a small group in 19th century Poland. "Orthodox" refers to virtually all other observant Jews, throughout Europe for many centuries before Hasidism was born, and including Modern Orthodox of today, who may not wear black hats or beards.
This is awesome! 😎
Their WONDERFUL people.
how do Orthodox Jews believe in the big bang theory (she said science and big bang)
Wait...do some Orthodox Jewish women actually shave their heads in order to wear a sheitel or tichel? I thought they always kept their hair! Will I have to do that...?
+Elisheva Bat-Sha'ul it is a custom for some percentage of Hasidic women. if you're not Hasidic, then no.
+Jew in the City
Okay...but that is still really scary to think about. Thank you for responding so fast.
+Jew in the City
If I am Hasidic, must I or can I decide not to?
+Elisheva Bat-Sha'ul it's not all Hasidim. if you were the type that did, it could be possible not to but could also be complicated but you could also change communities.
+Jew in the City
Thanks so much!
Good job
:D I like this video!
What is the orthodox Jewish view on homosexuality?
cisforcat the orthodox view on homosexuality is that the act (especially for a male) is forbidden but we are told that we are not allowed to judge another until we have stood in his place and that we are supposed to emulate the Almighty who is the God of compassion. so the way that many Orthodox Jews handle this is to leave the judging to God.
Your so kooool
cute
This is hilarious....and sad!