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 ...

The holiday of Shemini Atzeres suffers from an identity crisis. On the one hand, its very name — the Eighth Day of Assembly — leads to the impression that it is the closing day of Sukkot, the holiday ...

Watch as Rav Shlomo Katz tells us the story of what happened just a number of weeks before the start of World War 2 at a great convention for the leading Rabbis in Poland, the topic was 'How are we ...

Some surviving Hasidic Jews went to Antwerp, London or Montreal, but most went to Israel and to the United States. Some important rebbes also survived the war and emigrated, with each forming the ...

Rabbi Solomon Halberstam, spiritual head of the Bobov Hassidic movement, sailed today from New York on the SS Queen Elizabeth. Rabbi Halberstam, one of the world’s outstanding Hassidic leaders, is on ...

Thousands of Hassidic Jews attend a special prayer of Grand Rabbi Benzion Halberstam of Bobov at the Western Wall in Jerusaelm Old City, February... It is not often we find a Holocaust memoir where ...

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