Not your average Brooklyn hipster: Meet Meir Kalmanson

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At first glance, you might think Meir Kalmanson is just another 25-year-old hipster filmmaker from Brooklyn. But if you take a closer look, you’ll find that he’s far from typical. Kalmanson was born into the Chabad Lubavitch movement, which is a sect of ultra-Orthodox Hasidism — and the largest and fastest-growing Jewish organization in the world. Check out one of the most famous Hasids from Crown Heights and join him on a day in the life.

Reported, edited, and produced by Samara Abramson, a graduate student at Columbia University.

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