Argentinian youtuber going to a Jewish community in new york

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@javier

Recently i discover this guy which travels to the world. It happens to be from the Jewish community!
This specific video is amazing because it shows how a "city" in new york can have a great cultural differrence! Is super interesting to me know all this cultures (from another country and from another "culture")

This video is in spanish but i think you can translate it to english from YT settings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5EhEUfa8ZY

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@serge

I feel I need to clarify something important about this video.

The community shown here is Satmar, which is a very specific Hasidic subgroup within the Jewish world. They're essentially a subcommunity of a subcommunity:

Judaism -> Orthodox -> Haredi -> Hasidic -> Satmar

Out of roughly 15 million Jews worldwide, there are around 120,000-150,000 Satmars, less than 1% of the global Jewish population.

Hasidic communities are heavily overrepresented in media portrayals of Jews, and they’re often treated as if they represent Jewish life or Jewish ideas more broadly. They don’t. What you’re seeing here is a very particular community with its own internal traditions and worldview, and not representative of the Jewish community.

It’s important to be careful about presenting such a small and distinctive group as representative of Jews in general.

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@javier

Thanks for the clarification! As an external (and ignorant) person is super useful this info!