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.

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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

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

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


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.

 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.

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.

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.

 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.

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.

Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture in gentrified Brooklyn

There’s a variety of reasons why they end up becoming distanced, and they see it as a way of protecting themselves and their community from negative influences.

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

Israel has a major societal disconnect and it must be fixed

First Meron, then Givat Ze’ev. All after a year of Covid chaos. It's time for our Haredi brethren and community leaders to shape up, but also for secular society to stop the baseless hatred.

THE FUNERAL of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, on Sunday, in Jerusalem. The failure of haredi communities to come to terms with COVID-19, leading to extraordinary high rates of illness and death, requires soul-searching both internally and externally.

Two killed, 184 injured in bleachers collapse at Hassidic synagogue

Disaster at Karlin Stolin synagogue in Givat Ze'ev comes following reported warnings by Fire and Rescue Services that site was not safe

Congregants scurry to safety after the bleachers of a Hasidic synagogue collapsed in Givat Ze'ev, May 16, 2021.

Quebec's Hasidic Jewish community submits challenge on COVID-19 curfew

The council noted that the filing of the claim was driven by the Quebec government's unwillingness to change the current curfew rules to accommodate religious communities.

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Arab nurse recites Shema Yisrael prayer for dying Hasidic patient

The Shema Yisrael prayer is considered by many the most essential prayer in Judaism.

People get vaccinated at the Clalit vaccination center in Jerusalem, January 3, 2020.