The Tisch: Anti-American Hassidism
Thuogh hassidism in America is flourishing, hassidic masters have not always been so enamored with “the land of the free.”
|n his first visit to the US, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn of Lubavitch reportedly hired men to walk the streets of New York City while reciting chapters of Mishna, ‘to purify the air.’(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
