Hasidism is not a denomination but an all-embracing ... There are approximately forty-five thousand Satmar Hasidim in Williamsburg, over fifty thousand Bobover Hasidim in Boro Park, and at least ...

After years of battles in court, the halls of government and the public square, this is the first time the state has ...

The letters – issued on Thursday by two rival factions of the Satmar Hasidic community in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn – offered praise for the mayor. De Blasio, who has long ...

(JTA) — After one massive wedding that was scaled back under pressure and another that went off in secret, one of the most important leaders of the Satmar Hasidic community delivered a speech ...

Hasidism lays a great stress on the importance ... thus the Lubavitch came from Lubavitch, in Russia; the Satmar from Satu Mare in present-day Hungary; the Bobover from the Polish Galician town ...

Vizel spent her first 25 years as a Satmar Hasidic Jew, before making the scandalous decision to take her young son away, leaving her family behind as she attempted to forge a secular existence.

This practice is specific to certain ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sects, such as Satmar and some other communities, where it is believed that even hair covered by a wig or scarf could lead to vanity or ...

Hasidism has attracted, repelled and bewildered philosophers, historians and theologians since its inception in the 18th century. In “Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern ...

Major Hasidic dynasties include Satmar, Chabad-Lubavitch, Breslov, Ger, Belz, and Bobov, among others. These sects often differ in their approach to religious observance, their interpretation of ...