Thousands of Breslov hasidim arrived this week in Uman, Ukraine, to celebrate the traditional Hanukkah weekend. The arrivals, however, are now subject to extremely strict security precautions.

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Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists on Tuesday night fired shots at a car in which three Breslov hasidim were traveling. The hasidim, who had entered Joseph's Tomb in the city of Shechem (Nablus ...

The five killed were residents of Safed, and were all Breslov Hasidim, two of whom had families. The victims have been named as Moshe Gallant, 18, Meir Israel Shasha, 25, Rabbi Natan Shapira ...

The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of ...

Concerned with keeping themselves spiritually clean, the Hasidim are preoccupied with ideas of biblical concepts of purity and contamination. In this ordering of values, separation from outsiders ...

In a message to the new regime taking shape in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel wants to establish relations, but won’t hesitate to attack if it threatens the ...

Monsey Fire Department boasts predominately Jewish volunteers who span the spectrum of Judaism, from non-religious and Reform to Orthodox and Hasidim. The department also has female volunteers.

Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari drew widespread backlash on Wednesday when he criticized a law being advanced by the government that would shield members of the defense ...