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Visit of Gerer Rebbe to Yeshiva Yagdil Torah and Rabbi Berkowitz's class (3)/NYC Marathon in Williamsburg
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Visit of Gerer Rebbe to Yeshiva Yagdil Torah and Rabbi Berkowitz's Class (3)/nyc Marathon In Williamsburg. Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730352.APA citation style
(1993). Visit of Gerer Rebbe to Yeshiva Yagdil Torah and Rabbi Berkowitz's class (3)/NYC Marathon in Williamsburg. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730352.Chicago citation style
Visit of Gerer Rebbe to Yeshiva Yagdil Torah and Rabbi Berkowitz's Class (3)/nyc Marathon In Williamsburg. Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730352.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz's class at the (Ger) Yeshiva Yagdil Torah in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Children playing at recess. (Part 3) 11/9/1993. Hasidim watching the New York City Marathon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 11/14/1993. 00:00:52 - Young boy reading from primer: consonants and vowels, prompted by teacher Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz and other students for one letter. The teacher points out to class that everyone makes a mistake sometimes, even him. (Yiddish/English) 00:03:56 - (Partial audio) A boy sent out to another class for grape juice says they don't have it. Teacher admonishes some boys for acting up. "We don't say things like that." Children line up to get chocolates provided by the Rebbe. Grape juice is finally brought and each boy gets a cup. One by one they recite Boreh pri hagofen (blessing over wine). (Yiddish) 00:11:50 - Each child contributes a penny to a robot piggy bank. The coins are transferred to a charity can (pushke). (Yiddish/English) 00:16:04 - After the snack break, the teacher and children return to the primer, recite aloud the vowel sound "oy" and then find examples of the sound in combination with different consonants: oy, boy, goy. They continue to chant other combinations of consonant and the vowel sound "oy." (Yiddish) 00:19:24 - Courtyard. Children leaving the building for recess. Boys boisterously crowd in front of the camera, clowning around. Children playing in the street near school buses. Others play on monkey bars and rocking horses. 00:17:28 - (No audio) Children and primers. 00:42:26 - (No audio) New York City Marathon in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Hasidim (men, women, children, families) walking on street or watching from sidewalks. Other non-Hasidic spectators. Non-Hasidic elderly women with twin babies in a stroller. Quiet side street.
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