Although I haven’t seen the recently released, New York, I Love You, I have a pretty good guess as to what it’ll be like – well, the Hasidic part, at least: over-the-top, misinformed, melodramatic, and generally inaccurate. How can I be so sure? Because that's how Hasidim are always portrayed in Hollywood: Fiddler on the Roof, Yentl, A Stranger Among Us, Kadosh, various episodes of Law and Order...These characters are never anything more than caricatures - and negative ones at that.

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