Hassidim

IDF, Shin Bet arrest eight Palestinians suspected of assaulting Israelis in West Bank village

Separately, Israel Police on Thursday arrested a resident of the West Bank town of Tarqumiyah suspected of being involved in the criminally motivated kidnapping of an IDF soldier.

The IDF arrests eight Palestinians in Mukhmas suspected of attacking Israelis, July 3, 2026.
Ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jewish men rally against the imprisonment of yeshiva students who failed to comply with IDF draft orders, on June 18, 2026; Illustrative.

Arad residents protest alleged Gur Hassidic ‘takeover’ of city amid rising violence

MENTEE & MENTOR: Israeli logotherapists Batya Yaniger (L) and Teria Shantall.

Silence before speaking: Logotherapy helps process trauma, evil after October 7

Thousands of haredim protest against draft law in Jerusalem, January 6, 2026.

New Israeli drama Ambiguity explores secret lives of disbelieving haredim in Jerusalem - interview


How did Chabad go from hassidic subgroup to global Jewish phenomenon?

Ramash was truly following in the footsteps of his predecessors.

 LYUBAVICHI, CONTEMPORARY view – a rural village in the Rudnyansky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia.

The mystical importance of location in Judaism

Just as righteous people leave behind permanent marks of holiness, so, too, sinners leave behind tainted marks.

 THE MYSTICAL valence of a location is determined by what had been there beforehand.

Satmar’s micro-society: Kiryas Joel is a mirror of the American people

Do New York State’s public school curricular standards for English, history, mathematics, and science violate Satmars’ religious freedom?

 SATMAR HASSIDIM crowd bleachers on Lag Ba’Omer in Kiryas Joel, New York, 2016.

Letters to the Editor January 24, 2022: Time is running out

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Hiking with the hassidim - opinion

My new hassidic friends and I became members of the Jewish people again, a people continuously redeeming itself from the petty bigotries of our righteous ignorance.

MEN SEARCH the cloak room for their jackets at a mass gathering of Satmar Hassidim in New York

Grapevine: Good Shabbat

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 2, 2021

Alesker hassidic dynasty grand rabbi dies age 79 in Brooklyn

Rabbi Yizchok Ashkenazi had suffered deteriorating health for years and reportedly lived in "pain and suffering."

Gazing out at the altered skyline from a perch in Brooklyn, August 14

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A reluctant leader answering the call - opinion

Great leaders don’t set out to change history, but respond to history’s call for change when it comes knocking on their door.

 A MAN PRAYS at the graveside of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in New York.

In the wake of an earthquake: Meet Rabbi Avraham Dov

Avraham Dov survived the 1834 looting of Safed and the 1837 Galilee earthquake, but he died in late 1840 when a plague struck Safed. 

 Ibrahim Pasha, target of the Syrian Peasant Revolt

Israel and the world’s best photojournalism on display

“The photographers work with respect for their subjects, and the subject matter,” said curator Galia Gur Zeev. “They reflect the events that are taking place."

 PHOTO OF The Year was awarded to Natan Dvir’s compelling chromatic shot of octogenarian residents of Ashkelon whose home took a direct hit from a Hamas rocket during Operation Guardian of the Walls.