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 ...

As the chasidic sect’s leader goes to jail, remembering his great-uncle and a remarkable Holocaust photo album. This week, an undisclosed federal prison will become the new address of prisoner No.

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 an Orthodox Jewish sect was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for a tax evasion and money-laundering scheme that continued over a decade, spanned two continents, and cost taxpayers ...

Every variety of fedora and yarmulke was on display as men poured into the central building of the Vizhnitz Hasidic community for a hastily arranged “legal symposium” Tuesday evening in Borough Park — ...

This year, Shabbos Parshas Bamidbar, is on Sivan 2, May 15. The second of Sivan is sacred because it is the yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapiro, zt”l (1872-1937), revered Munkatcher Rebbe and famed ...

In a Los Angeles courtroom, the federal justice system is colliding with one of the most vexing areas of Jewish law. Rabbi Moshe Zigelman, 64, already has spent two years in jail in a tax-fraud and ...