the Ger, Belz and the Stoliner. Currently, the Hasidic population in Boro Park is expanding rapidly. It is difficult to obtain accurate estimates of the Hasidic population. The Hasidim are ...
Tziporah Feiga Alter, a descendant of Hasidic nobility and the widow of the former grand rebbe of the Ger Hasidic movement, died Sunday in Bnei Brak, Israel. She was 97. Her wedding in 1946 to ...
A Brooklyn judge on Monday berated a rebellious crew of Hasidic Jewish students charged with digging a secret tunnel under a prominent Crown Heights synagogue — even as four defiantly demanded a ...
The clashes, in which several people sustained minor injuries, were connected to a rift between two cousins heading the movement. (JTA) — A simmering rivalry within one of the largest Hasidic ...
An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...
Major Hasidic dynasties include Satmar, Chabad-Lubavitch, Breslov, Ger, Belz, and Bobov, among others. These sects often ...