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.

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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

The message Brooklyn's district attorney was sending was that “politics matters more than protecting children,” said Boorey Deutsch, the husband of the woman who Weberman abused when she was a girl.

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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

Hasidic boys' schools dedicate less than two hours/week to secular learning. This educational neglect is tragically common and feeds poverty, demanding urgent action from the new NYC administration.

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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

The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders.

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How toy makers and publishers created an alternative Jewish universe

For Orthodox parents and educators, the test of a children’s product is whether the creator has the right intentions.

APRIL 18, 2022ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
A "Shabbos Table" set from Kids Play depicts a typical haredi Orthodox family at home. The designer, Shlomi Eiger, says the brand is part of a "contemporary trend of Haredi children's toys and games designed from within the community."

Two Israelis shot in Nablus, Joseph's Tomb vandalized again

Right-wing MKs say they intend to visit the tomb on Monday night, against orders of IDF.

APRIL 11, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, TZVI JOFFRE
An Israeli soldier prays together with other worshippers inside Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank

Ex-Hasidic trans activist Abby Stein photographed by Annie Leibovitz

Abby Stein is an activist for LGBTQ+ inclusion in Jewish communities and beyond.

APRIL 5, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
US photographer Annie Leibovitz poses for a photograph during a press preview of her exhibition 'WOMEN: New Portraits' at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station in London, Britain, January 13, 2016.

Ex-Hassid who advised ‘Unorthodox’ comes out as trans

Lili Rosen, the ex-Hasidic Jew who advised popular Netflix series 'Unorthodox,' came out amid her translating a children's sexuality guide into Yiddish

JANUARY 27, 2022BySHIRA HANAU/JTA
“God knows that if I as a teenager had access to this, it would have been inordinately helpful and beneficial to me in my journey. I may have even come out 20 years ago, or 30 years ago,” Rosen said.

How Satmar Hasidim used liberal values to create an American theocracy

Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic village in Upstate New York, is an enclave of Satmer Hasidim that has their own legal traditions and customs.

JANUARY 19, 2022ByDAVID N. MYERS, NOMI M. STOLZENBERG, JTA
Satmar Hasidim in the Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in the town of Kiryas Joel, New York

The struggles and spirituality of the TikTok hassid

In just 250 pages, Oshman, a mother of four who lives with her family in London, tells her life story, from her childhood growing up in Israel, through her IDF service and professional success.

DECEMBER 16, 2021ByALAN ROSENBAUM
VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZE donated goods for delivery to families of building collapse victims in Surfside, Florida, in June. The author believes in the power of such positive religious action even when negative things happen.

Ultra-Orthodox mayor arrested in connection with two unsolved murders

Authorities suspect that the hasidic sect Shuvu Banim, led by convicted sex offender rabbi Eliezer Berland, was involved in the crimes.

NOVEMBER 22, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Eliezer Berland (left), a convicted sex offender.

Three Berland sect members arrested in 30-year-old murder cases

The three suspects are members of Rabbi Eliezer Berland's Shuvu Banim sect of the Breslov Hassidic community.

NOVEMBER 1, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish pilgrims pray next to the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah holiday, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Uman, Ukraine, September 19, 2020

Our Jewish past can teach us how to be better

From the Bible to Benjamin Franklin, here's how our history teaches you to have a better character.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021ByMAURICE J. ELIAS
A tightrope walker performs during the opening ceremony of the Carnival in Venice.

Rabbi Yoel Kahn, leading student of Lubavitcher Rebbe, passes away

Kahn was known for transcribing Schneerson's talks and teachings and disseminating them to communities around the world for over 70 years.

JULY 17, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Yoel HaKohen Kahn, known simply as Reb Yoel, was chief scribe of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, for over 40 years. Seen here in a familiar pose listening to the Rebbe teach at the farbrengen gathering of 12 Tammuz 1983.