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Stamford Hill, London

Since I moved to London last summer, I've been living in an area in Hackney called Stamford Hill. If one starts to look it up, one may encounter documentary series on the Hasidic Jewish community in London. I live not just alongside them, but at the very heart of their community. This means that I see numerous synagogues, Jewish-owned shops selling groceries, kosher meat and yummy pastries, I hear beautiful hymns and chants on some evenings of the week, I hear upbeat music during their weddings and other festivities, and of course I encounter the very people that make up the community everyday. When I get lucky, I manage to catch glimpses of beautiful stacks of books and libraries inside their homes when the front doors happened to be open. I see children running around freely, because it is the community's responsibility to watch over them, even if they are not theirs. This is the benefit of living in a tight-knit community. Recently while under lockdown during the Easter week...