The Ozherov Rebbe was rushed Sunday morning to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer after suffering a cardiac event at his ...

The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

Thousands gather to pray for recovery of Vizhnitz Rebbe, Rabbi Yisrael Hager, at orderly but massive Western Wall prayer ...

The Lubavitcher Rebbe was an outsized character. He led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement for over 40 years until his death in 1994 and changed the face of Judaism across the world. Some of my peers think ...

When I watched the video clip that surfaced this week of a Hasidic teenager lying on the floor and crying in pain from the blows of his rebbe, I was shaken, but not surprised. Sadly, this kind of ...

Samuel Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center and is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. He received ...

A cluster of positive coronavirus cases was confirmed among Jewish orthodox communities in Borough Park and Williamsburg on Wednesday as their Satmar Rebbe issued an edict to close all religious ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in the Queens borough of New York City at the resting place of ...

Members of New York City’s Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish community openly defied social distancing orders Tuesday by hosting raucous weddings with hundreds of guests amid the growing spread of ...