Hasidic

Five arrested after 100 Hasidim enter Palestinian village of Kifl Haris to visit graves

The Hasidim, followers of convicted sex offender Eliezer Berland, claim that Palestinian residents threw stones at them, injuring two.

Israel Police car
Antique pocket watch and ruble coins discovered by Chabad summer camp kids in the town of Lyubavichi, Russia, July 12, 2026.

Coming full circle: Luxury watch belonging to Chabad rebbes found by hasidic children in Lyubavichi

An Egged bus driving through Jerusalem

Gur Hasidic community in Arad instructs students to ride busses according to gender

Igor Tulchinsky in The Jerusalem Post Studios.

This quant billionaire uses AI but turns to Hasidic thought for meaning


Hasidic Jewish refugees from Ukraine celebrate Hanukkah at Hungarian shelter

More than half of Ukraine's Jewish communities have been evacuated, finding refuge around Europe and Israel.

 Hasidic Jewish refugees from Ukraine celebrate the first day of Hanukkah at a kosher shelter on the banks of Hungary's Lake Balaton in Balatonoszod, Hungary December 18, 2022

Rachel Freier: Civil court judge, parademic, Hasid and mother of 6

Freier discusses the changing public perception of Hasidim and relations between religious and secular Jews.

 Hon. Ruchie Freier

Activists launch independent haredi news organization

Naftuli Moster is launching a news organization focused on tackling the news desert in the haredi world.

Man reading 'Yated Ne’eman’ in Mea She’arim

Chinese censors ban printing of ‘anti-communist’ Hasidic woman’s memoir

“Unfortunately this book is not approved to print in China as content involves anti-communist,” said a 1010 Printing representative.

 Chinese censors did not allow a local company to print copies of "The Queen of Cleveland" for American publisher Hasidic Archives.

Can the state tell yeshivas what they can teach?

New York State's Board of Regents to approve new regulations proposed by the New York State Education Department.

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

Brooklyn woman knocks hat off Orthodox Jewish man

The suspect was arrested on Saturday night by NYPD with assistance from volunteer safety patrol group Boro Park Shomrim.

Illustrative photo: Residents of Borough Park in Brooklyn, last month.

How New York City’s Hasidic yeshivas gained, and lost, legitimacy - opinion

The supporters say the schools’ focus on Jewish studies is a matter of educational and religious freedom and parental choice.

Pedestrians walk past a yeshiva in the South Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 9, 2019.

Rules aimed at regulating ultra-Orthodox schools unanimously passed in New York

The regulations have been in the works for years and got the approval of the Regents’ Preschool to twelfth-grade committee Monday.

 An Orthodox Jewish man walks by the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov school.

Israeli Yeshiva student wins silver medal at International Olympiad of Informatics

Eitan Elbaum, 17, competed against 346 students from 90 countries across the globe in the contest, which featured complex programming questions.

 Eitan Elbaum (second in from right) poses with other members of the Israeli delegation who participated in the International Olympiad in Informatics earlier this year.

Boys in hasidic schools regularly beaten, denied basic secular education - NYT

A year-long investigation into the New York hasidic school system by The New York Times found that the children in these schools were suffering from severe educational deprivation.

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