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A variety of hats are worn depending on the group: Chabad men often pinch their hats to form a triangle on the top, Satmar men wear an open-crown hat with rounded edges, and Samet (velvet) or biber hats are worn by many Galician and Hungarian Hasidic men. Married Hasidic men don a variety of fur headdresses on the Sabbath, once common among all ...
Hasidic men in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The man on the left is wearing a shtreimel and a tallit , and the other man traditional Hasidic garb : long suit, black hat, and gartel . Jewish religious clothing is apparel worn by Jews in connection with the practice of the Jewish religion .
In Orthodox synagogues, women are not entitled to deliver divrei Torah-brief discourses on the weekly Torah portion-after or between services; shiurim are typically limited to men. Many Orthodox synagogues have physical barriers dividing the left and right sides of the synagogue, with the women on one side and the men on the other.
Victims tell Michelle Del Rey the doctor’s abuse spanned across a 15-year period
Fascinating photos from a traditional Orthodox Jewish wedding showcase the religion's unique and ultra-Orthodox traditions. The wedding was a huge spectacle with the groom being a grandson of a ...
Orthodox men and women dress modestly covering most of their skin. Married women cover their hair, with scarves , snoods, turbans, hats, berets, or wigs. Orthodox men wear a ritual fringe called Tzitzit, and wear a head-covering for males. [60] Many men grow beards, and Haredi men wear suits with black hats over a skullcap.
The essential position of Orthodox Judaism is the view that Conservative and Reform Judaism made major and unjustifiable breaks with historic Judaism - both by their skepticism of the verbal revelation of the Written and the Oral Torah, and by their rejection of halakha (Jewish law) as binding (although to varying degrees).
In Orthodox Judaism, men and women are not allowed to mingle during prayer services, and Orthodox synagogues generally include a divider, a mechitza, to create separate men's and women's sections. The idea comes from the old Jewish practice when the Temple in Jerusalem stood: there was a women's balcony in the Ezrat Nashim to separate male and ...