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, ...

Member of the Vidrodzhennia group in the Ukrainian parliament has admitted to tax evasion and pledged to pay $1 million in unpaid taxes, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said. "I have just been ...

AN ESTIMATED 15,000 Hasidic Jews gathered at a Brooklyn synagogue last night to mourn the death of Grand Rabbi Naftuli Halberstam, leader of the Bobov sect for five years. Halberstam, 74, died shortly ...

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 ...

Key Hasidic groups are endorsing Republican Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk) for governor over Gov. Kathy Hochul in the latest sign that the incumbent is struggling with historically Democratic constituencies ...

Bobov Hasidic rabbi, hailed by NYC for mask-wearing, tests positive for COVID-19 A photo of Rabbi Mordechai David Unger wearing a mask in public before Yom Kippur went viral and was used to encourage ...

According to an Orthodox news site in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Rabbi Mordechai David Unger is experiencing minor symptoms. (JTA) – Just last week, a photo of a Hasidic rabbi from Borough Park wearing a ...

Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, 74, who took over as head of the Bobov Hasidic sect after the death of his father five years ago, died Wednesday at a hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. He became head of the ...

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.