A photo of a Hasidic Jewish couple sitting next to a Muslim woman feeding a baby on the New York City subway has gone viral on Facebook. The post has received some 53,000 likes and nearly 41,000 ...

Hasidic Judaism, a vibrant branch of the Jewish ... Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787-1859), also known as the Kotzker Rebbe, challenged his followers to confront the illusions and pretensions ...

Frimet Goldberger, a writer who grew up in the Hasidic community, posted about the practice earlier this month, sharing a picture of a newly engaged couple: The girl is 17 and the boy is 15.

The landmarks of the Hasidic neighborhood, the prayer house (the shtibl), ritual bath (mikveh), studyhouse (besmedresh), rebbe's residence, and school, are usually all within walking distance of ...

An online course about the vibrant world of Hasidic creativity begins this Wednesday, Feb. 26 at the Workers Circle. It will be taught by the Yiddish activist Eli Benedict, who hails from a Hasidi ...

It is difficult to obtain accurate estimates of the Hasidic population. The Hasidim are reluctant to count themselves: when asked how many followers he had, the Lubavitcher Rebbe replied ...