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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Major Hasidic dynasties include Satmar, Chabad-Lubavitch, Breslov, Ger, Belz, and Bobov, among others. These sects often differ in their approach to religious observance, their interpretation of ...

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 ...