Brooklyn, NY – Photography Project Turns Into Lesson In Orthodoxy

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    FILE - Richard RelandiBrooklyn, NY – A local photographer shooting a series called “Touching Strangers” for an upcoming book learned a valuable lesson the other day when he was forced to relocate to Crown Heights after being unsuccessful in finding an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man willing to pose with a complete stranger in Williamsburg.

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    The NEW YORK TIMES (http://nyti.ms/13pKLWg) reports that the photographer, Richard Renaldi, stopped in Williamsburg as part of his project that attempts to have complete strangers pose together with their bodies touching as if they are intimately involved.

    After hours of rejection from Williamsburg ultra-Orthodox, he was informed by a kindly ultra-Orthodox man that “imaging” is frowned upon and that he’d be better off trying Crown Heights or Borough Park where Orthodox Jews are “more open.”

    Upon landing in Crown Heights, the first Orthodox Jewish man he asked, 24 year-old Yeshiva student Shalom Lasker, agreed to pose for the picture.


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    sissel613
    sissel613
    10 years ago

    thank you, Chabad, for your continuing kiddush Hashem

    bored
    bored
    10 years ago

    Well the guy in the picture does look very religious. The other one in the black hat too.

    birgas
    birgas
    10 years ago

    I think he should go to Sdom & Gomorrah to try his noble acts. This is getting crazier by the minute.

    ShmutzVesh
    ShmutzVesh
    10 years ago

    Gotta love em lubabs!

    Facts1
    Facts1
    10 years ago

    “complete strangers pose together with their bodies touching as if they are intimately involved.”

    Huh? You call that “open minded”?

    10 years ago

    Interesting. Where does it say in Halacha we can’t take images?

    TheRealJoe123
    TheRealJoe123
    10 years ago

    AWESOME…

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    10 years ago

    Strangers touch strangers every day on the NYC subway system so maybe he should take his camera there.

    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    10 years ago

    No thats not the reason. They didnt want to have a picture with a mishigina!

    berelw
    berelw
    10 years ago

    I like how the yeshiva bochour says sure. its a kidush hashem..

    10 years ago

    What garbage is this about “imaging”? I’d like to see someone spew that nonsense to one of the photographers at a Satmar wedding.

    10 years ago

    Intametely does not connotate a sexual reference. Intamacy is euphemistically used to denote sexual relations but it is not it’s true meaning. So people can stop thinking that the Lubavitcher agreed to pose in a sexual manner with another man. Since your obviously online and have access to Google, you may want to look up the definition before displaying your ignorance.

    Shmuli
    Shmuli
    10 years ago

    1 – Funny that people associate Chabad with taking pictures, the Lubavitcher Rebbe for many years did not agree to have pictures or videos taken of himself until someone told him that Chassidim need to see pictures of the Rebbe to better connect with him.

    2 – the most shocking thing about this article is the bochur in the picture. I have never seen him away from his sforim, other than when he goes to the dorm late at night.

    54321
    54321
    10 years ago

    I know this bochur in 770, excellent bochur who’s a masmid, always learning.