LAS VEGAS -- Walking around the CES showroom floor, there is one specific cultural group that stood out to me. (No, it was not the booth models.) A surprising number of Hassidic Jews seemed to be ...

Seeing such people tilling the land, draining marshes, and sweating under the sun was a sure sign of the coming redemption for the rabbis of the United Kingdom. In Elul – that is, August-September – ...

This is a very special song, for several reasons. First, it is a song that the Hasidim sang before the war in Poland on their way to their Rabbi in Góra Kalwaria, in a world that Hitler (y"s) brought ...

Contemporary Breslov Hassidism has the most creative hassidic music scene. This is not sanctioned Breslov music, since Breslov Hassidim do not have a recognized central leadership. Rather, there are ...

The tomb of Rav Ashi, a Babylonian sage, is located inside an IDF military outpost on the Blue Line between the two countries. “There’s no crisis here that needs solving except for the dislike people ...

A day after a group of haredim from the Breslov Hassidic sect were apprehended after infiltrating Lebanese territory, it turns out that the incident was more dramatic than originally thought to be. It ...

MOBILE, Alabama – With their long curly sideburns, formal black clothing and air of antiquity, Ultra-Orthodox Jews seem like something from a time long past, and are a mystery to most of the modern ...

Arrangements were completed today in scores of homes hear the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn to accommodate a group of 70 Lubavitcher hassidim from Israel, due to arrive here early tomorrow morning ...

(04/24/06) WILLIAMSBURG ? Rabbi Moses Teitelbaum, leader of Satmar Hassidim, died Monday at the age of 91. Teitelbaum has been the rebbe, or grand rabbi, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect since 1980.

Followers of Rabbi J. J. Twersky, the Skvirer Rebbe, voted today to incorporate their community near Spring Valley, N. Y. as a village, to be known as New Square, the Americanized form of Skvir, the ...