THE REGION: Anti-Hasidic sentiment brings calls for understanding. Hasidim want to buy a resort in Fosterdale. Get out, say the neighbors, we don't want you here. "They'll come in and ruin the place," ...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the cool young hipsters of New York City. A short walk from the ...

There’s been a full-court press of late against Hasidic education in New York by a small number of yeshiva graduates who are agitating for authorities to force additional secular studies curricula on ...

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In “Menashe,” out Friday, a hapless widower risks losing custody of his young son, simply because, his rabbi explains, there’s no real home without a woman. That’s both the plot of Joshua Z. Weinstein ...

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Culturally, the relationship between Hasidim and other Jews is ambiguous and ambivalent. Many American Jews feel a kind of cultural revulsion towards the Hasidim, who represent to them an atavistic ...

According to the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience, more than 30,000 Hasidic pilgrims intend to come to Uman for Rosh Hashanah [the Jewish New Year] this September.

Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein have yet to sell shtreimels. But one fashion commentator — and a whole lot of YouTube viewers — think Hasidic garb is worth another look. “The Substance of Hasidic Style, ...

The Gur hasidic sect on Wednesday morning announced that the traditional "travel" for the Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) holiday will take place as usual this year, in light of the Home Front Command ...

A group of 20 Breslov Hasidim entered the Palestinian village of Kifl Hares in Samaria overnight without any coordination with security forces and without permission from the IDF. The group entered in ...