Hasidic

Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable

Local rabbi says suspect also tried to torch a church last month, stresses community does not feel rising antisemitism in the city.

Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable
Nechemya Weberman convicted for 103 years in prison.

Ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn man who abused child may see 103-year sentence reduced - NYT

Candidate Zohran Mamdani meets with Satmar Hasidic leaders and families during his campaign for mayor, Williamsburgh, New York, October 2025.

NYC’s yeshivas can offer a well-rounded education. Will Mamdani help them get there? - opinion

 An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

NY state budget weakens oversight over yeshiva learning in blow to secular education advocates


NYPD officer yells 'You F'in Jews' at Hasidic father and son in Boro Park

The officer yelled the comments while driving by the two and drove off laughing.

New York Police Department by the Fifth Avenue Synagogue

NAACP suspends official who said ‘Hasidics are generally not too friendly’

James Harris gave a speech on gentrification in which he called Hasidic Jews unfriendly

A man arrives at a mass gathering of Satmar Hasidic Jews in the Brooklyn borough of New York December 2, 2015

Hasidic man assaulted in Brooklyn, attacker yells 'I will kill you Jews'

Two women shoved a Hasidic man to the ground in Brooklyn, and one of them punched him in the throat.

The intersection of Broadway and Lorimer Street in Brooklyn. NYPD reports that a 22 year-old Hasid was assaulted and verbally harassed by two women

The Jersey City shooting and the dangers of not taking Hasidim seriously

The ultra-Orthodox community is culturally and visibly different than any other group with whom you normally interact, and therefore our very existence sometimes provokes a wide range of emotions.

Emergency personnel and investigators work at the scene the day after an hours-long gun battle with two men around a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S., December 11, 2019.

Hanukkah photography exhibit offers a window into Hasidic Jewish life

The photos in the exhibit offer a window into Hasidic life in the strictly Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem, offering an intimate glimpse of men, women and children celebrating the holiday.

An exhibit of 11 photographs of Hasidim celebrating Hanukkah, all the work of Polish photographer Agnieszka Traczewska, will be on display at the 14th St. Y in Manhattan through late January

New York state accuses town of ‘systematic effort’ to bar Hasidic residents

Irish Jew Raphael Siev who is part of Ireland's dwindling Jewish community is seen reading a book in this photo taken on March 2, 2003

Images of London rabbi's attackers revealed, police seek help

There is also a witness police are trying to find, as her testimony will greatly aid their investigation.

Ultra-Orthodox men in Stamford Hill

Gerrer obsession with hassidic manna

How should we understand this apparent obsession with a matter of questionable import? How should we perceive the preponderance of interest in declaring that manna required no blessing?

‘The Gathering of the Manna’ by James Tissot

Breakaway Gerrer community claims expulsion and harassment of pupils

Members of the breakaway Gerrer group have claimed that elements in the mainstream Gur community have threatened, and carried out, various forms of retribution against those who have left.

GERRER HASSIDIM at a wedding in Jerusalem.

What we can still learn from the Lubavitcher Rebbe about climate change

Since the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969, the central debate has been whether humanity should unheedingly reap the bounty of the earth or more carefully consider the impact of our actions.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson