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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

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Dalia Varman (right) helps a customer with her selection, at Dalia's Hats in Tel Aviv. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2023, 5:39 am
After 80 years, hat shop in old garment district still has Tel Aviv covered
Multi-generational Dalia’s Hats has been at the same Nahalat Binyamin location for decades, remaining essentially the same even as the neighborhood transforms around it
By Gavriel Fiske
Eitan Press of Aleph Male, a beard balm business based on Jewish masculinity, in Jerusalem's Old City, February 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
February 16, 2018, 1:44 pm
Ancient beard traditions shape the face of modern Jerusalem
In the capital’s Old City, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Christian clerics and devout Muslims connect past generations to God through the tangled strands of history
By Ian Deitch
Jonathan Keren, the founder of Maapilim, an Israeli line of indie beauty products for men. (Courtesy, Jonathan Keren)
January 26, 2018, 9:20 am
Once clean-shaven, Israelis no longer bristling at beards
The founders of Barberia and Maapilim believe in facial hair and grooming, and not just for hipsters, either
By Jessica Steinberg
Eitan Press, second from right, says he has “anointed” the beards of hundreds of men, including these Jewish pilgrims in Uman, Ukraine, Sept. 20, 2017. (Aleph Male)
November 1, 2017, 2:45 am
A Jewish-themed beard balm for hipsters and Hasids
Eitan Press’s lifestyle brand hopes to cultivate alternative ways of considering masculinity
By Josefin Dolsten
Manhattanville Coffee, opened two years ago, merges two of Crown Heights' communities: It's a chic artisanal cafe with strict kosher certification. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 19, 2017, 11:59 am
A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory
Known as Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew
By Ben Sales
Zeke Finn sings about his upbringing and unicorns. (Ahron Moeller)
May 15, 2017, 1:35 am
The hip young rapper who sings about unicorns
Zeke Finn got his musical start in English class. Now he represents millennial Jewish Brooklyn in New York’s most happening venues
By Madison Margolin
Young Israelis celebrating Purim in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem, March 17, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)
March 25, 2016, 12:44 am
Purim is the ultimate hipster holiday, says this millennial
‘Imagine groups of 20- and 30-something Jews — perhaps alongside a cadre of equally fun-loving non-Jews — having a blast’
By Gabe Friedman
In this photo taken on November 10, 2015, an Israeli man appears in a cafe in the Florentin neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
November 18, 2015, 4:29 am
Tel Aviv’s Florentin a bustling bohemian hub
With its hipsters, edgy graffiti and countercultural sensibility, this gay-friendly southern section of Israel’s iconic metropolis is one of countrey’s last true neighborhoods
By Aron Heller
Hipster Hitlers (photo credit: hipsterhitler.com via JTA)
January 6, 2015, 3:42 am
German neo-Nazis go hipster
Far right gets a ‘most stylish and difficult to recognize’ make-over in bid to attract younger crowd
By Gabe Friedman
HipsterShaadi.com (screen capture)
From the WebDecember 2, 2013, 6:26 pm
‘Single Muslim hipster seeking same’
NPR: New matrimony site HipsterShaadi helps third-culture kids find their match as they navigate the space between East and West
Alex Schinasi, left, and Lee Rotenberg in their shop at the Brown TLV. (photo credit: Rafi Daloya)
October 28, 2013, 5:34 pm
Tel Aviv start-up fuels a T-shirt trend in Beirut
Artsetters is connecting artists and buyers in a global web, with love of art and design proving capable of crossing even hostile borders
By Debra Kamin
Efraim (Jordan Feltner) and his father Moishe (Mitch Greenberg) no longer see eye to eye in Miki Bone's 'Division Avenue.' (photo credit: Miki Bone/courtesy)
July 28, 2013, 10:51 am
Catholic Texan writes play about Brooklyn Hasidim
A chance encounter with three Hasidim with lowered eyes when walking across a NY street leads to the new play, ‘Division Avenue’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Israeli-born violinist Itzhak Perlman, left, will perform with Manhattan Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Feb. 28. (Lisa-Marie Mazzucco via JTA)
February 10, 2013, 4:31 am
New York arena swaps Jay-Z for Jews
After early shows by the rapper and Streisand, the Barclays Center will host one of the largest cantorial concerts in decades
By Chavie Lieber
January 27, 2012, 9:41 am
Battle in Brooklyn
It’s Hipsters vs. Hasids in New York’s Crown Heights
By Nathan Burstein
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