Attackers accuse Meir Porush of harming Gur Hasidic rebbe, vow to 'avenge him'; attack seen as related to inter-party ...

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 ...

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The Hasidic ideal is to live a hallowed life, in which even the most mundane action is sanctified. Hasidim live in tightly-knit communities (known as "courts") that are spiritually centered around ...

(JTA) — A simmering rivalry within one of the largest Hasidic movements in Israel escalated ... Clashes between competing currents within the Ger dynasty happened last weekend in Jerusalem ...

Dozens of Yeshiva students from the Skver hasidic dynasty were wounded, and one is in critical condition after their bus overturned on Monday night in Montvale, New Jersey, according to the Monsey ...

Some of this politicking is driven by need: for example, despite the middle-class veneer of the largely Hasidic neighborhood of Boro Park, 1980 statistics show eighteen percent of its population ...

The decision is the first time that the State Department of Education has withheld money from private Hasidic schools for not teaching sufficient math and English skills. By Eliza Shapiro and Brian M.