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 ...

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 ...

It has been two decades since the death of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Hasidic rebbe whose influence was felt far beyond the Chabad-Lubavitch movement he led. Within hours after the ...

The NYPD just put out a radio alert that Moses Teitelbaum, Grand Rebbe of the Satmar sect of Hasidism, died at Mount Sinai Hospital. Teitelbaum was 91, and had been suffering from spinal cancer. He ...

Large crowds gathered in Monsey Tuesday to mourn Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, the rebbe of the Skulen Hasidic dynasty in Brooklyn, who died on Monday. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at ...

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 ...

Hundreds of men flouted public health rules to crowd into a study hall in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn Sunday afternoon for the funeral of Yechezkel Roth, a Hasidic rabbi who lived in the ...