Hasidic

Gur Hasidic community in Arad instructs students to ride busses according to gender

The notice instructed passengers to board through the rear door and sit at the back of the bus “in order to allow the students to travel separately.”

An Egged bus driving through Jerusalem
Igor Tulchinsky in The Jerusalem Post Studios.

This quant billionaire uses AI but turns to Hasidic thought for meaning

Tyler Oliveira interviews residents of Lakewood, New Jersey, in his YouTube video titled "I Exposed New Jersey's Jewish Invasion..."

As a YouTuber targets Orthodox communities, the right wrestles with its antisemitism problem

Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable

Fire damages historic Sadigura synagogue in Chernivtsi, suspect mentally unstable


Gerrer obsession with hassidic manna

How should we understand this apparent obsession with a matter of questionable import? How should we perceive the preponderance of interest in declaring that manna required no blessing?

‘The Gathering of the Manna’ by James Tissot

Breakaway Gerrer community claims expulsion and harassment of pupils

Members of the breakaway Gerrer group have claimed that elements in the mainstream Gur community have threatened, and carried out, various forms of retribution against those who have left.

GERRER HASSIDIM at a wedding in Jerusalem.

What we can still learn from the Lubavitcher Rebbe about climate change

Since the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969, the central debate has been whether humanity should unheedingly reap the bounty of the earth or more carefully consider the impact of our actions.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

NY county’s Republican ad warns of a Hasidic ‘takeover’

A Facebook campaign ad from an upstate New York county’s Republican Party has been slammed as anti-Semitic and “deeply disturbing.”

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

Housing developers sue New York officials for trying to keep out Hasidic Jews

The developers have asked the court to reverse the town’s building-permit denials for homes that comply with approved plans.

Followers of ultra-orthodox Jewish rabbi Moses Teitelbaum of the Satmar Hassidim pack the Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in the town of Kirays Joel, New York