Posts Tagged ‘Rebbe Nachman’

Hasidic radicals bellow down Tel Aviv’s streets

Hasidic radicals bellow down Tel Aviv's streets

The monotonous din of traffic permeated the air on Tel Aviv’s Sheinkin Street on a recent Friday afternoon, when, suddenly, a large white cargo van whipped around the corner, blasting music from a pair of huge roof-mounted loudspeakers. A few people walking on the crowded sidewalks stopped to stare as five bearded young men wearing white-knit, tassel-topped yarmulkes leaped out, dancing to the thud of electronic bass beats.


Dancing in the streets of Tel Aviv

Dancing in the streets of Tel Aviv

Meet the Na Nachs, Tel Aviv’s Bohemian ultra-Orthodox Jewish ravers.