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


First-ever hassidic Jew appointed as US assistant secretary

Mitchell (Moyshe) Silk will be the Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Markets.

The White House

Hasidic community near Montreal under lockdown demonstrates against police

Boisbriand, a Hasidic enclave of 4,000 just north of Montreal, was ordered into a 14-day lockdown on March 29 after a coronavirus outbreak

A police officer is called over to speak with a man who wished to leave the Tosh Jewish community of Boisbriand as private security and police maintain a quarantine due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) near Montreal, Quebec, Canada March 30, 2020

Quebec Hasidic Jewish community under quarantine due to coronavirus oubreak

The region's public health department noted that there have been 10 confirmed cases of coronavirus discovered among members of the Tosh Hasidic community.

Quebec boreal forest

100 people test positive for coronavirus in Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood

The results have come since the clinic began testing on Friday morning.

Dirshu students taking the tests in Boro Park, Brooklyn

Netflix returns to Jewish content with release of 'Unorthodox'

The show, about a young woman leaving hasidic orthodoxy for a new life in Germany, is the platform's first Yiddish language show.

Shira Haas in the Israeli drama 'Princess.' (Credit: Yes)

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