Holy Days

Holy Days

'Lubavitcher Hasiclim" hy Lis Harris, in The Nw Jbrker (Scpt. 16-30, 1985),25 \Vest 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
Along the Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, N.Y, men garbed in black with
Iondbeards and broad-brimmed hats are often seen chanting at sundown
on Friday nights, before going to synagogue. These Lubavitcl~ers, members
of a branch of Judaism called Hasidism, have been congregting in Brook-
lyn's Crown Heights section since the mid-1930s, when they first emigrated

from Eastern E...

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