22nd May 2003
Hasidic Rebel Blog
Ah, blogging. You got the Homeless Guy blogging, you’ve got at least one Baghdad Iraqi blogging (incidentally, I haven’t noted it here yet, as everyone else has done so elsewhere, but Salam Pax is back from his wartime hiatus), you’ve got Iranian women blogging, and now, as Pearl points out to me, you’ve got the Hasidic Rebel blogging — a guy who lives by day, as he describes in one post, “in my usual Chasidic garb: long dark coat and round-brimmed black Chasidic hat,” and secretly blogging at night. A fascinating look at this mysterious culture in our midst (”‘Real’ Chasidim don’t know the basics of this nation’s history; its legends, stories, and dreams that inspired Americans to create what this nation has become. Ask an average Chasid if he’s heard the names Paul Revere, Mark Twain, or Davy Crockett, and he’ll give you a blank stare”) and details of everyday life struggling as a cross-culture Chasid, like getting busted by neighbors smuggling a video home from Blockbuster.
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