“The driver was Rabbi Ezriel Tauber, a middle-aged Hasid with long, black curly payot.”

“Its hero, Reb Yudel Hasid, is the embodiment of every wandering, drifting Jew in the ghettos of the tsarist and Austro-Hungarian empires.”

“A Hasid is concerned simply with earning a living in a way that will not interfere with his religious duties.”

“There were several thousand Hasidim present, singing and chanting and dancing around their Master, the late Rebbe Menahem Mendel Schneerson.”

“Many of the 7,000-member Skver sect of Hasidim in New Square, 30 miles north of Manhattan, believe God has revealed himself in fish form.”

“Today then we must return to our pharisaic memory as it was defined by the Hasidim who followed the Maccabees.”