Soon after its founding in the mid-eighteenth century by Jewish mystics, Hasidism rapidly gained popularity ... town of Bobova in Poland (Galicia), the Satmar from Satu Mar in present-day Hungary ...

Before the Holocaust, prayers were led here by none other than Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the late founder of the Satmar movement of Hasidic Judaism. The Satmars, who derive their name from this ...

The largest Hasidic groups settling in Williamsburg were of Hungarian origin, the Satmar and the Klausenberg. They rapidly took over part of the neighborhood--in 1951, the last movie house on Lee ...

(JTA) — After one massive wedding that was scaled back under pressure and another that went off in secret, one of the most important leaders of the Satmar Hasidic community delivered a speech ...

Nearly 20,000 are expected to celebrate community's revival and marvelous growth of its yeshiva system - defying its detractors and naysayers and challenging environment - at Satmar's largest ...

This practice is specific to certain ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sects, such as Satmar and some other communities, where it is believed that even hair covered by a wig or scarf could lead to vanity or ...

Major Hasidic dynasties include Satmar, Chabad-Lubavitch, Breslov, Ger, Belz, and Bobov, among others. These sects often ...

The event, which is the community's largest annual-celebration to-date, will mark the community's marvelous growth, defying its detractors attacking Satmar and the Hasidic community and its ...