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The Charedi World Through A Secular Lens
By: Chana Jenny Weisberg
Anti-Charedi sentiment is scarily high right now in Israel. A sweeter-than-sweet 12-year-old Charedi girl was even verbally (and almost physically) attacked on a Jerusalem bus this week, just for being Charedi. Heartbreaking and horrifying.
And the cause of all of this hostility against Charedim and the Charedi world: several weeks of non-stop incitement and virulently anti-Charedi news reports by Israel’s largely anti-religious secular media.
So I have chosen today to feature the gorgeous photos of one secular Haaretz photographer who has chosen to go against the stream that his colleagues are swimming in, and instead, has spent several years looking deep within the Charedi world in order to present its multifaceted beauty and charm and far-beyond-black-and-white complexity. These photos appear in his newly-released book Hassidic Courts.
May this book be a much-needed tikkun, helping to replace the baseless hatred tearing the Jewish people apart with newfound mutual understanding and Ahavat Yisrael!
On vacation, Lake Agmon, Hula Valley
Wedding, mitzvah dance, Satmar Chassidut, Bnei Brak
Erev Rosh Hashana, Uman
Wedding, women's section, Shomrei Emunim Chassidut, Mea Shearim 2011
Viznitzer Chassidim harvest wheat for Shemura Matzah near Modiin.
Charedi protester against the desecration of graves, route 6, near Kibbutz Regavim
Tashlich, Nadvorno Chassidut, Bnei Brak
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