Our motley crew of revelers, carrying our stereotypes of chasidic Brooklyn with us like so much baggage, step onto the D train, bound for the 19th century. It’s a recent Purim and we’re headed to ...

For 300 years chasidism has been synonymous in the public mind with a fervent Orthodox flamboyance that could find transcendence in everything from a fallen leaf to a Yom Kippur whistle. At a ...