Also opposing the ban are Hasidic Jews, who often wear the cake-shaped sable hats known as shtreimels on Shabbat and holidays. Made from the tails of sables and foxes, the hats can cost as much as ...

leading some to comment on the uneasiness Jews feel toward their Hasidic "brothers." On the other hand, the Hasidim have influenced other American Jews to become, in some ways, a bit more like them.

Vizel spent her first 25 years as a Satmar Hasidic Jew, before making the scandalous ... Married women cover their hair with a wig or scarf, and rigorous modesty rules must be adhered to.