There’s been a full-court press of late against Hasidic education in New York by a small number of yeshiva graduates who are agitating for authorities to force additional secular studies curricula on ...

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In “Menashe,” out Friday, a hapless widower risks losing custody of his young son, simply because, his rabbi explains, there’s no real home without a woman. That’s both the plot of Joshua Z. Weinstein ...

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Culturally, the relationship between Hasidim and other Jews is ambiguous and ambivalent. Many American Jews feel a kind of cultural revulsion towards the Hasidim, who represent to them an atavistic ...

According to the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, more than 30,000 Hasidic pilgrims intend to come to Uman for Rosh Hashanah [the Jewish New Year] this September.

An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...

The Gur hasidic sect on Wednesday morning announced that the traditional "travel" for the Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) holiday will take place as usual this year, in light of the Home Front Command ...

Christmas Eve occupies a special place on the Hasidic calendar as a kind of “silent night,” when Torah study ceases — and then resumes full force at midnight. NEW YORK (JTA) – Christmas is a day like ...

On Sunday, January 4, as many Jews around the city fasted to commemorate the historical siege of Jerusalem by Babylonians, more than 100 Williamsburg Hasidim were protesting what they consider a siege ...

A group of 20 Breslov Hasidim entered the Palestinian village of Kifl Hares in Samaria overnight without any coordination with security forces and without permission from the IDF. The group entered in ...