Hassidim

Gerrer Rebbe, anti-Zionist Satmar billionaire discussed ICJ action against Israel over haredi draft

In footage released by Channel 13, another participant in the meeting, Emet LeYaakov chairman Israel Gafner, can be heard comparing Israel to North Korea.

Gur Grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter seen after a meeting of the Council of Torah Sages regarding the Haredi draft exemption bill in Jerusalem, January 7, 2026.
 Thousands of Shluchim pose for a “class picture” outside Chabad World Headquarters

Will Chabad lead American Jewry? - opinion

The IDF arrests eight Palestinians in Mukhmas suspected of attacking Israelis, July 3, 2026.

IDF, Shin Bet arrest eight Palestinians suspected of assaulting Israelis in West Bank village

Ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jewish men rally against the imprisonment of yeshiva students who failed to comply with IDF draft orders, on June 18, 2026; Illustrative.

Arad residents protest alleged Gur Hassidic ‘takeover’ of city amid rising violence


My family's blessing from Reb Shayele

This blessing perhaps lasted through the Holocaust, because my mother survived the war through a miracle.

 Portrait of Rabbi Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir (1851–1925), produced during his lifetime. His followers believe that Reb Shayele’s image protects against misfortune. (kestenbaum.net)

Lapid attempts secret deal with hassidic sect over anti-haredi bills - report

Secret talks were held between the foreign minister and the Gur Hassidim sect for the scrapping of anti-haredi bills in exchange for a Knesset "security net."

 Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during the funeral ceremony of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the streets near the cemetery  in the city of Bnei Brak, on March 20, 2022

How did Chabad go from hassidic subgroup to global Jewish phenomenon?

Ramash was truly following in the footsteps of his predecessors.

 LYUBAVICHI, CONTEMPORARY view – a rural village in the Rudnyansky District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia.

The mystical importance of location in Judaism

Just as righteous people leave behind permanent marks of holiness, so, too, sinners leave behind tainted marks.

 THE MYSTICAL valence of a location is determined by what had been there beforehand.

Satmar’s micro-society: Kiryas Joel is a mirror of the American people

Do New York State’s public school curricular standards for English, history, mathematics, and science violate Satmars’ religious freedom?

 SATMAR HASSIDIM crowd bleachers on Lag Ba’Omer in Kiryas Joel, New York, 2016.

Letters to the Editor January 24, 2022: Time is running out

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Hiking with the hassidim - opinion

My new hassidic friends and I became members of the Jewish people again, a people continuously redeeming itself from the petty bigotries of our righteous ignorance.

MEN SEARCH the cloak room for their jackets at a mass gathering of Satmar Hassidim in New York

Grapevine: Good Shabbat

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 2, 2021

Alesker hassidic dynasty grand rabbi dies age 79 in Brooklyn

Rabbi Yizchok Ashkenazi had suffered deteriorating health for years and reportedly lived in "pain and suffering."

Gazing out at the altered skyline from a perch in Brooklyn, August 14

The Lubavitcher Rebbe: A reluctant leader answering the call - opinion

Great leaders don’t set out to change history, but respond to history’s call for change when it comes knocking on their door.

 A MAN PRAYS at the graveside of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, at the Old Montefiore Cemetery in New York.