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 ...

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 ...

A traveler once arrived at the court of a renowned Hasidic Rabbi and, with a trembling voice, with the urgency of one ...

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 ...

MONSEY, N.Y. (JTA) — Eleven days after a man barged into a rabbi’s home on Hanukkah here and stabbed five Jews, Josef Margaretten was patrolling this Hasidic neighborhood in an SUV marked with ...

The people he was close to were mostly non-Hasidic Litvish Roshei Yeshiva and rabbis. The notable exception was the Lubavitcher Rebbe with whom he had, at times what seemed at least outwardly to ...