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September 19, 2024

A Visit to the World’s First Hasidic Art Gallery

“Are these relatively drab-looking, strict people allowed to indulge in such colorful work?”

In 1977, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim opened the Crown Heights Art Institute (CHAI) in the eponymous Brooklyn neighborhood to showcase the work of hasidic artists. Dovid Margolin tells the story of that unprecedented institution and its founder and director, Zev Markowitz:

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