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The Hasidic community is mysterious to outsiders, and for good reason. This isn’t a group that reaches out to strangers, preferring to keep themselves isolated in their own neighborhoods, where they can follow their own long-established mores and customs while avoiding dangerous distractions. We’re not supposed to look at them as if they’re time travelers from the 19th century, but seeing the men dressed uniformly in their somber, loose-fitting suits, the women in their ankle-grazing skirts and dark helmet-shaped wigs, it’s hard not to. These are people who don’t want the modern world to find them. How could outsiders — all of us swept up in the modern world whether we like it or not — not be curious about that?

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