The day after the death of Rabbi Naftuli Halberstam, rebbe of the Bobov chasidim, his half-brother Benzion sat at the Bobover rebbe’s designated place of honor — the raised platform in the middle of ...

Watch as Rav Shlomo Katz tells us the story of what happened just a number of weeks before the start of World War 2 at a great convention for the leading Rabbis in Poland, the topic was 'How are we ...

Some surviving Hasidic Jews went to Antwerp, London or Montreal, but most went to Israel and to the United States. Some important rebbes also survived the war and emigrated, with each forming the ...

Rabbi Solomon Halberstam, spiritual head of the Bobov Hassidic movement, sailed today from New York on the SS Queen Elizabeth. Rabbi Halberstam, one of the world’s outstanding Hassidic leaders, is on ...

Thousands of Hassidic Jews attend a special prayer of Grand Rabbi Benzion Halberstam of Bobov at the Western Wall in Jerusaelm Old City, February... It is not often we find a Holocaust memoir where ...

It was 1988 presidential primary time in New York, and I was on the press bus going from Manhattan to Boro Park in Brooklyn where Al Gore was scheduled to meet Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the Bobover ...

The figures involved in Wednesday’s arrests are considered ultra-Orthodox followers of Judaism and are not Hasidic. Ultra-Orthodox Jews are a prominent community in Rockland, where they live alongside ...

Congregation Beis Shloime is bringing a massive school to Borough Park. The nonprofit religious organization filed plans to build a nine-story school building on a vacant lot at 1360 36th Street, ...

A Brooklyn man claims he was repeatedly raped as a child by two Hasidic rabbis, and beaten when he tried to report his Hebrew school “hell.” “We do not discuss such things,” Yonah Kohn says a rabbi ...

Four yeshivas in Brooklyn allege discrimination by New York State in a complaint filed with the US Department of Education. Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion, Oholei Torah, United Talmudical Academy, and ...