earlocks
payess
sidelocks
side locks

Like some black-garbed scarecrow, earlocks swinging as he walked.

"By the earlocks of the Third Prophet!"

Boys with "pais" - earlocks - wear slacks and buttoned shirts.

"Across the street are a few houses where Orthodox Jews live; you know, black hats, beards, earlocks.

"I grew up, as I'm fond of saying, in a Hasidic world without the beard and the earlocks," he says.

Earlocks, beard, the lot.

Now the salty breeze ruffled the man's full white beard and earlocks, his black woolen coat and trousers.

On it a young Hasid, in skullcap and earlocks, arguably the least graceful participant in the parade, danced enthusiastically alongside black colleagues.

Moses is forced to shave his beard, cut his earlocks and consort with the heirs of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Rainbow sees a band of teenaged yeshivah boys, skullcaps askew and earlocks swinging, armed with cricket bats, bricks and lumps of rock.

It has a black fur hat, thick dark-framed spectacles, fuzzy earlocks and a rusty beard of patriarchal length that fails to disguise an anaemic adolescent complexion.

As Leah whis- pered the tale into Rabbi Samuel's ear, the old man's earlocks uncurled and turned distinctly grayer.

The distinctive appearance of the men - black hats, black suits, tieless white shirts buttoned to the neck, long payess (earlocks) - recalls 18th-century Eastern Europe.

"Yeah, well he may look like Hasidim, with his earlocks and all dressed in black, but I've heard that the other Hasidic rabbis won't have anything to do with him."

"Rabbi," he said, "there's something I don't understand: if you no longer believe as the other Hasidim believe, why do you still wear the attire and earlocks of Hasidim?"

An armada of yellow buses clogs the neighborhood at 8 A.M. every morning, transporting girls in long skirts and boys with long earlocks to the 65 religious schools in the neighborhood.

In the playgrounds of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Hasidic boys with spiraling earlocks race their Easy Rider-style tricycles against other Hasidic boys.

He styles himself a heretic, a Brooklyn Hasid with beard and earlocks who does not believe in God, sneaks away to snack on Yom Kippur and sometimes grabs a hamburger that isn't kosher at McDonald's.

The material includes dub versions of Bim Sherman's 'What Sweet You So', Jah Woosh's 'Jah Is The Ruler' and Joseph Earlocks' 'Free Up The Blackman'.

The Hasidim and other ultra-Orthodox Jews - men in black coats, beards and earlocks, modestly dressed women pushing strollers overflowing with children - make up a significant proportion of what seems to many outsiders an extraordinarily closed society, with its Yiddish vernacular and expressive Jewishness.