As many as 16 Hasidic men, including a group from New York traveling to Vienna, were detained at a German airport for more than 10 hours without charges, according to a Jewish rights group. Five of… ...

Unknown perpetrators hurled firebombs at the gravesite of a Hasidic luminary in central Ukraine. The incident in Shpola, a city located 120 miles south of the capital, Kiev, occurred Sunday ...

A vibrant and polyphonic set of Hasidic confrontations with the modern world Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th ...

Thousands attend Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn, many from Europe and Israel The wedding is the latest example of the lack of compliance in Hasidic communities with protocols meant to stop the spread ...

The Hasidic community in question, commonly known as Gur (or Ger in Hebrew), is one of the largest and most influential ultra-Orthodox sects in Israel, originating from Poland in the 19th century ...

The Hasidic community in question, commonly known as Gur (or Ger in Hebrew), is one of the largest and most influential ultra-Orthodox sects in Israel, originating from Poland in the 19th century.

A highly anticipated intensive two-week course on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish begins on July 23 at the annual festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, in Weimar, Germany. Yiddish is a living language ...

The device comes out of the Ger Hasidic community, Tablet reported. The community one of the largest Hasidic groups in Israel and are particularly dogmatic.. “Like many in the Haredi world ...

Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism that flourishes to the present day. The Chabad-Lubavitch movement ...

The American Hasidic shtiebel traces its beginnings to the first Eastern European synagogue established in New York in 1852, at a time when a small but steady stream of Jews from central Poland ...