A massive wedding for the son of a Hasidic grand rabbi took place in Brooklyn on Monday night amid the coronavirus pandemic — but law enforcement authorities said the festivities were all legal.

There was a problem. Reb Pinchas was studying Kabala in Jerusalem and didn’t want to leave for America. But Reb Pinchas was summoned to Galicia, then part of the Russian Empire for a rabbinic tribunal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn — The NYPD was ...

Throngs of mourners filled the streets of Borough Park in Brooklyn last night for the funeral of Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, the leader of the Bobov sect, who died yesterday at age 74. Halberstam, ...

The main synagogue of a Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect hosted yet another mammoth wedding celebration in defiance of COVID-19 rules Monday, with thousands of mask-free revelers in attendance.

At a recent fundraiser for the Bobov Hasidic group attended by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council member David Greenfield told the crowd that de Blasio “did not forget his friends.” Now, ...

It is a great mitzva to make a bride and group happy at their wedding because a new Jewish home is being created, so much so that despite the strict separation of men and women at the festivities, ...

The day after the death of Rabbi Naftuli Halberstam, rebbe of the Bobov chasidim, his half-brother Benzion sat at the Bobover rebbe’s designated place of honor — the raised platform in the middle of ...

Just last week, a photo of a Hasidic rabbi from Borough Park wearing a mask outdoors went viral, even prompting one of New York City’s top health officials to cite him as a model of responsible ...

Photos and video from the wedding of Avraham Yehoshua Heschel Halberstam, a son of the rebbe of the Bobov Hasidic dynasty, to Chana Sara Baila Friedman posted on this Chabad website, offer a ...