After disavowing her strict religious upbringing, Abby Stein came out as transgender. She is now the subject of a new play by ...

Using tools of detection, Assaf extracts historical truth from a variety of sources by examining how the same events are treated in different memory traditions, whether hasidic, maskilic,or modern ...

The film, called Kerl fun sofek in Yiddish, is set in an 18th-century Polish shtetl during the beginnings of the Hasidic movement. Hadassah (Elizabeth Connick), a young woman in late pregnancy ...

Several thousand Hasidic Jews from Israel, Europe and the United States have gathered in the southeastern Polish town ...

Hasidic tales, intriguing and memorable doorways ... although there is overlap and movement between them. There are approximately forty-five thousand Satmar Hasidim in Williamsburg, over fifty ...

(JTA) — Anti-Semitic slogans were scrawled on the fence of a Jewish cultural center in the Russian village of Lyubavichi, the cradle of the Chabad Hasidic movement. The inscriptions, reading ...

That includes cyberspace, where the Hasidic movement maintains one of the most-visited Jewish websites. But a group normally committed to spreading Jewish joy found itself on the defensive this ...

According to a report in the Hamodia daily, which is affiliated with Goldknopf’s Gur Hasidic movement, the housing minister complained during a UTJ faction meeting in the Knesset that a bill ...

He is the son of a rabbi, a nephew of a rabbi, and a great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the iconic founder of the Hasidic movement, a reformative, pious, ultra-orthodox branch of Judaism.

the Lubavitcher movement. In Communist Russia and North Africa, Australia and all over the U.S.. an estimated 10,000 followers of this Hasidic sect look to Brooklyn for light and guidance ...