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Dispatches- Page 5

Reporting from Standpoint correspondents in Rome, Kiev, New York, the Caucasus and elsewhere. Writing from the place, by someone who went.
Uman has been called the Hasidic Mecca and the Hasidic Glastonbury.

On Pilgrimage with the Hasids

'Uman has been called the Hasidic Mecca and the Hasidic Glastonbury. Overwhelmingly, however, the pilgrimage is rejected as “un-Jewish”, even by other ultra-Orthodox Jews'
September 24, 2013
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One student identified himself as working class and a member of the Communist Party.

Teaching China’s Anglophiles

'One student identified himself as working class and a member of the Communist Party. I was, however, surprised to see a copy of Roger Scruton’s Meaning of Conservatism bulging out of his
September 24, 2013
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