Chasidism’s many secular Jewish detractors — both here and in Israel — seem to be interested only in the alleged threat that the fervently Orthodox pose to Jewish pluralism and Israeli ...

This video from the PBS series The Story of the Jews examines how, in the middle of the eighteenth century, Chasidism offered an antidote to despair for beleaguered Jewish communities living in ...

Although Chasidism today is identified as part of Orthodox Judaism, in its origins it was innovative, revolutionary, and controversial, ...

‘We are the heirs of the chasidism that would have been created by all the rebbes who were killed in the Holocaust,” Daniel Siegel told the 200 Jewish spiritual seekers who gathered last month ...

With the Alter Rebbe’s release, there thus began a second era in the dissemination of Chasidism. This is alluded to by this letter, which is numbered Iggeret Hakodesh , Epistle 2.

A decade ago, distinguished Orthodox filmmaker Menachem Daum produced and directed the documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America,” a restrained and loving effort to introduce the ...

Born in the Bronx in 1929 to Polish immigrant Jews, the urban New York backdrop of Potok’s childhood and his personal experiences with Chasidism are woven like threads into his novels, including ...

During the funeral last week for Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, a weeping voice barreled over loudspeakers to tens of thousands of mourners gathered outside the main Bobover synagogue in Borough Park ...

To many, the 19th of Kislev — Dec. 7 this year — is just another day. But to Rabbi Danny Yiftach-Hashem, it’s a watershed moment.