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 ...
Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, leader of a faction of the Satmar Hasidic community based in Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic enclave in New York’s Orange County, denounced the protests Tuesday at an event in ...
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 ...
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 ...