Hasidic daily publishes new ruling from Amshinover Rebbe allowing visits to Temple Mount under certain conditions.

The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

Joshua Haruni spent years documenting life in Israel’s Hasidic communities — from the Rebbe’s office to the tisch’s with thousands gathered to sing, from cheder graduations to the moments in the ...

Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He received ...

The Lubavitcher Rebbe was an outsized character. He led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement for over 40 years until his death in 1994 and changed the face of Judaism across the world. Some of my peers think ...

A cluster of positive coronavirus cases was confirmed among Jewish orthodox communities in Borough Park and Williamsburg on Wednesday as their Satmar Rebbe issued an edict to close all religious ...

The Hasidic group continues to be powerful because its late leader’s believers don’t quite believe that he’s gone, writes one of his biographers. Since suffering the first of several devastating ...

Thousands of Hasidic rabbis from around the world, including two from Central Arkansas, traveled to New York for an annual Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries' conference that ended Sunday. The purpose of the ...

Members of New York City’s Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish community openly defied social distancing orders Tuesday by hosting raucous weddings with hundreds of guests amid the growing spread of ...

This past week, something amazing happened in Maine that hasn’t happened in a very long time. My younger sister, Devorah Leah, got married in a traditional Hasidic wedding ceremony, the first one to ...