NYC ultra-orthodox Jews give Amish walking tour
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Posted: 2:17 AM Apr 1, 2009
NYC ultra-orthodox Jews give Amish walking tour
New York City's ultra-Orthodox Jews have given the Amish a walking tour of their world.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's ultra-Orthodox Jews have given the Amish a walking tour of their world.

Several dozen Amish residents from Lancaster County, Pa., toured Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood with members of the Hasidic Jewish community on Tuesday.

Rabbi Beryl Epstein, a Chattanooga, Tenn., native, calls the tour "living Judaism."

The tour began in the basement of a Hasidic library, with Epstein explaining similarities between the two communities, such as their old-fashioned dress.

The neighborhood is home to an ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect born about 200 years ago in Russia.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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