Hasidim live in tightly-knit communities (known ... (Galicia), the Satmar from Satu Mar in present-day Hungary, the Belz from Poland, and the Lubavitch from Russia. In Brooklyn today, there ...

Estimates in the mid-1960s put the number of Hasidim in New York City at between forty and fifty thousand, with the Satmar the largest group at 1,300 families, the Belz, Bobov, Klausenberg ...

Hasidim looking to vacation on the Welsh seaside are scrambling to find alternate arrangements after Aberystwyth University banned the use of candles in its residences. Hundreds of Orthodox Jews ...