Orthodox Judaism

Who Was – And, More Disturbingly, Wasn’t – At The Israel Day Parade

Submitted by Gary Rosenblatt on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 10:39

Walking along the route of the Israel Day Parade yesterday, from 72nd Street down to 59th Street along Fifth Avenue, I was reminded once again, and in dramatic fashion, how the expression of Zionism in American has become increasingly the purview of the Modern Orthodox community.

The crowd appeared to be made up primarily of relatives and friends of the marchers – many of the large contingents were day school children – and other observant Jews.

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Pumping Iron For The Payes Set

David Lowey hits the elliptical and studies the Talmud at Green Fitness. Sharon Udasin

In Williamsburg, chasids and hipsters
are increasingly working out alongside
one another.

05/18/2010
Sharon Udasin
Staff Writer

Taking a mid-afternoon break from running his busy Williamsburg restaurant, David Lowey hustled over to a new Bushwick gym and hopped on an elliptical machine, pedaling vigorously in his full Satmar regalia.

Tzitzit dangling from his black pants and payes swinging over his ears, the 290-pound 26-year-old breathed heavily, as he scrolled through the day’s Daf Yomi Talmud page online, from a touch-screen computer panel in front of him.

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