A Chasidic teenager who firebombed the home of ... Spitzer had spent a year as a live-in aide to Rabbi David Twersky, the rebbe of the Skverer sect, before the attack. Rottenberg filed a civil ...

and we don’t attack the rebbe, who has never been accused of a crime.” In communities like New Square, however, where Chasidic leaders influence not just residents’ spiritual lives but their ...