This week, an undisclosed federal prison will become the new address of prisoner No. 46835-112, Naftali Tzvi Weisz, known to his thousands of followers as the Grand Rabbi of Spinka of Borough Park.

Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz, the Brooklyn-based Grand Rebbe of the Spinka sect, was sentenced to two years in federal prison Monday for a decade-long fraud and money-laundering scheme. Weisz, 61, had ...

The Hasidic Rebbe, or “Grand Rabbi,” is no ordinary Jewish spiritual leader. Unlike rabbis in other denominations, from Reform to the fervently Orthodox, the Rebbe in Hasidic communities is much more ...

The haredi newspaper Hamodia has an exclusive interview with the Spinka Rebbe, who made headlines for admitting publicly that he had broken the law. It’s a pretty fascinating read, mostly because ...

The head of a Brooklyn-based Chasidic sect was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a decade-long fraud and money-laundering scheme. Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz, grand rebbe of the Spinka sect, ...