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


Jewish composer Yigal Calek passes away at 76

The founder of the "London School of Jewish Song" choir was considered groundbreaking in the world of Hasidic music.

 Yigal Calek passed away at 76

All the details: Thousands expected to join Rosh Hashanah prayers in Uman with Rabbi Pinto


Is Jewish law more important than everything?

A 1907 collection of hassidic tales by Rabbi Yisrael Berger

 ‘THAT WOULD be a worse sin than not returning 20 silver rubles!’

The end of an era: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s last blessing three decades ago

'On that Sunday afternoon, as he was handing me a dollar, I would end up posing the very last question for Rabbi Schneerson to answer'.

RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON of Lubavitch at a Lag Ba’omer parade in Brooklyn, 1987.

Funeral held on Monday for Chaya Chana Twersky, wife of Rabbi David Twersky

Chaya Chana Twersky, who passed away on February 18, was the daughter of a prominent Hasidic rabbi and was known as an extraordinary hostess and prominent figure in New York Hasidic Jewry

 Yahrzeit candle

Yeshiva students light 138 Hanukkah menorahs in honor of hostages

Students at the Erlau Hasidic Yeshiva in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood have arranged 138 Hanukkah menorahs in honor of the hostages who cannot light their menorahs this year.

 Erlau ceremony, light candles in honor of hostages

Israeli citizen arrested in Uman, facing deportation from Ukraine - report

This is the second arrest of an ultra-orthodox Jew in Uman in two days.

Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov on the eve of the Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year, in the town of Uman, Ukraine September 20, 2017

Could tense Israel-Ukraine relations cause a humanitarian crisis in Uman?

Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Tradition Minister Meir Porush has appealed to the prime minister to help avoid a humanitarian crisis in Uman.

 MK Meir Porush arrives to coalition talks at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2022.

Performing Hasidic music, these women are transcending gender and the Orthodox-liberal divide

The often wordless songs are traditionally sung exclusively by men, and are central to the synagogue experience — itself a primarily male domain in the Orthodox tradition. 

Crown Heights, Brooklyn

18 NYC yeshivas do not adequately teach secular studies, investigation finds

The letters show that city investigators confirmed what journalists have twice documented and advocates have long argued: that many yeshivas barely teach secular subjects.

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