The author of “All Who Go Do Not Return” speaks with JTA about Hasidic culture, first transgressions and how a new generation of formerly haredi Orthodox Jews is defying stereotypes.

Before the Holocaust, prayers were led here by none other than Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the late founder of the Satmar movement of Hasidic Judaism. The Satmars, who derive their name from this ...

Hasidic Judaism, a vibrant branch of the Jewish ... Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787-1859), also known as the Kotzker Rebbe, challenged his followers to confront the illusions and pretensions ...

Hundreds of Orthodox Jews from Israel, the United States, Canada and various European countries have gathered in Lelów, near Częstochowa in southern Poland, to pray at the grave of Rabbi David ...

The only biography in English of the founder of the Chabad movement in Hasidism Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady (1745-1812), in imperial Russia, was the founder and first rebbe of Chabad, a branch of ...

All but four Hasidic Jewish students charged with digging ... as Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Chabad “Rebbe,” called for before his death in 1994. “The goal of everything was ...

The landmarks of the Hasidic neighborhood, the prayer house (the shtibl), ritual bath (mikveh), studyhouse (besmedresh), rebbe's residence, and school, are usually all within walking distance of ...

Courtesy Frieda Vizel, An insider speaks up about Hasidic female head-shaving & more, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3NWewukpsg In many Hasidic Jewish ...

It is difficult to obtain accurate estimates of the Hasidic population. The Hasidim are reluctant to count themselves: when asked how many followers he had, the Lubavitcher Rebbe replied ...

A New York judge strongly criticized the Hasidic students who were charged for digging a tunnel under the Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn ...

NEW YORK — Four men accused of damaging a Brooklyn synagogue during a melee that followed the discovery of a secret tunnel at the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic ...