The day after the death of Rabbi Naftuli Halberstam, rebbe of the Bobov chasidim, his half-brother Benzion sat at the Bobover rebbe’s designated place of honor — the raised platform in the middle of ...

It was 1988 presidential primary time in New York, and I was on the press bus going from Manhattan to Boro Park in Brooklyn where Al Gore was scheduled to meet Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the Bobover ...

Watch as Rav Shlomo Katz tells us the story of what happened just a number of weeks before the start of World War 2 at a great convention for the leading Rabbis in Poland, the topic was 'How are we ...

Thousands of Hassidic Jews attend a special prayer of Grand Rabbi Benzion Halberstam of Bobov at the Western Wall in Jerusaelm Old City, February... It is not often we find a Holocaust memoir where ...

HAVE you ever wondered about some bearded, black-suited, otherworldly figure encountered on the street or the subway? In a series of beautifully shot, startlingly intimate interviews, the stunning ...

The Simchat Beit Hoshoeva festivities during Sukkot originally marked a ceremony that involved anointing with water in the Temple in Jerusalem. Now, the streets of Brooklyn’s Chasidic neighborhoods ...

This week on Yud-Tes Shevat marks the first yartzeit of one of the true luminaries of our generation, Rabbi Dr. Avraham J. Twerski ZT”L. Rabbi Twerski was a descendent of holy Chassidic masters and ...

This week on Yud-Tes Shevat marks the first yartzeit of one of the true luminaries of our generation, Rabbi Dr. Avraham J. Twerski zt"l. Rabbi Twerski was a descendent of holy hassidic masters and ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, the scion of multiple Hasidic dynasties, author of more than 60 books, and a physician who became a leading authority on drug treatment and addiction, has died.