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The Admore Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto Bolsters the Antwerp Community

 Religious Reinforcement Campaign in Belgium • The Admor Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto held a marathon of Torah lessons and meetings with the great admors and rebbes of Antwerp • The Admor was accompanied by his son, Rabbi Yoel Moshe Pinto, who continues to follow in his footsteps
A man arrives at a mass gathering of Satmar Hasidic Jews in the Brooklyn borough of New York December 2, 2015

Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture in gentrified Brooklyn

The Rebbe of Kaliv and his hassidic followers celebrating the Simchat Beit Hashoeva (water drawing ceremony) during Succot in Rishon LeZion, October 18, 1978

Holocaust survivor Kaliv Rebbe passes away at 96

A worker harvests cannabis plants at a plantation near the northern town of Nazareth

High hopes


Hasidic protest breaks out after arrest in New York

Joel Herskovitz thought the police's response “was definitely overkill."

A JEWISH FAMILY walks in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Yom Kippur.

Hassidic singer performs at Red Sox-Mets game

Shulem Lemmer's upcoming album is being released by Universal's Decca Gold.

Shulem Lemmer, a hassidic singer from Brooklyn

ASK THE RABBI:Disentangling facts from myth

So much of what we know about the Hozeh – or at least think we know – is rooted in hassidic legend.

THE COVER of the new book by Dr. Uriel Gellman, which uses the ‘Hozeh’ of Lublin as a starting point to consider Hassidism in Poland, is a reproduction of a 1859 lithography by Adam Lerue (1825-1863)

Kiryas Joel to become 'Palm Tree,' the first Haredi town in America

In 2011, the 'New York Times' identified Kiryas Joel as the poorest place in the United States.

Orthodox Jews of the Satmar Hasidim celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York

A Jewish-themed beard balm for hipsters and Hasids

Haredi Orthodox men are using the balm to style their sidelocks, and a woman recently told him she was using it on her split ends.

Eitan Press (center right) stands with the band Zusha and their manager. ( Zachariah Goldschmiedt, Paltiel Razenberg, Eitan Press and Shlomo Gaisin)

Woman attacks two Jewish girls in Crown Heights

A Hasidic man stepped in and took the brunt of the violence before police were called.

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Hasidic men aboard flight cover Drew Barrymore film with blankets

The movie in question was the 2007 Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore film Music and Lyrics.

Drew Barrymore

Netflix to premiere film about hassidic life

Streaming service joins up with team behind ‘Jesus Camp’ to create ‘One of Us’

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox take part in a wedding linking two prominent Hasidic dynasties in Netanya, on March 16

The Tisch: Anti-American Hassidism

Thuogh hassidism in America is flourishing, hassidic masters have not always been so enamored with “the land of the free.”

|n his first visit to the US, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn of Lubavitch reportedly hired men to walk the streets of New York City while reciting chapters of Mishna, ‘to purify the air.’

Rosh Hashana in Uman: A Jewish anarchy

An account of a merry trip to one of Rosh Hashana’s most famous destinations.

'This is about the bubbling and renewing of our culture. That is what’s happening here.’

Disturbing undercover video of Hasidic principal prompts sex abuse probe

Even for those who argue that this is not a case of sexual abuse, it’s impossible to say the school administrator’s behavior is in any way acceptable, Moster told JTA.

Undercover video of Hasidic principal handling boy prompts sex abuse probe