The funeral of the Satmar grand rebbe went off on Tuesday night like a vast unchoreographed dance on the dark streets of Williamsburg, illuminated only by the yellow glow of streetlights and the red ...

Thousands of Gerrer Chassidim on Sunday attended the funeral of Rebbetzin Tzipora Alter, wife of the previous Gerrer Rebbe. Her funeral procession left Bnei Brak from the home of her son Rabbi Yitzhak ...

As the world’s largest Chasidic sect mourns the death this week of the Satmar Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum, the bitter, litigious — and sometimes violent — feud between two of his sons shows no sign ...

The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

New Yorkers of a certain age remember well the many weeks in which the city seemed gripped almost exclusively by the fervor—and drama—surrounding the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, as he lie in ...

He was largely unknown in Rockland's secular circles, but Rebbe Mordechai Hager was a giant in the Hasidic community, as evidenced by the tens of thousands who gathered for his funeral in Kaser on ...

One of the final remnants of Torah sanctity in eastern Europe to survive World War II and put down roots in the fresh potential of America, the 95-year-old Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom ...

More than 10,000 Hasidic Jews marched yesterday in a funeral procession here for Grand Rabbi Jacob Twersky, known as the Skverer Rebbe for the Ukrainian town where he was born, who died earlier in the ...