That is why I decided to immerse myself in the foundational anti-Zionist texts of the haredi world, especially the writings ...

IT IS A BLOOD BATTLE for a 200-year-old global tribe, one that clings to rituals rooted in pogrom-ravaged Eastern Europe while today controlling a network of schools, synagogues and real estate worth ...

NEW YORK, April 26 (JTA) — 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 ...

After a career spanning pre-war Hungarian mountain villages and a 21st century empire in New York with an estimated 50,000 Chasidim and several hundred million dollars in assets, the Satmar Grand ...

The decade-long feud between two sons of the Satmar grand rebbe has long been cast as a battle from which one brother will emerge as the movement’s new spiritual leader. But since the rebbe’s death ...

COPS ARE BOOSTING manpower in Brooklyn as they brace for a Sabbath showdown at sundown today between followers of the late Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum’s feuding sons. The two sons of the late grand ...

New York Moses Teitelbaum, an Auschwitz survivor and revered leader of the large and politically influential Satmar Hasidic movement for more than a quartercentury, died shortly before 7:00 last night ...

GUBERNATORIAL candidate Eliot Spitzer got his signals mixed yesterday when he made a shiva call to only one of the feuding sons of late Satmar Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum. Spitzer’s representatives ...

(New York Jewish Week) — The Satmar “Grand Rebbe” Zalman Teitelbaum paid a visit to convicted sexual abuser Nechemya Weberman in prison last month, according to a Yiddish-language newspaper serving ...

In a rare interview given in English, Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum, one of the two rabbis claiming leadership of the Satmar Hassidic movement, spoke to the Ami Magazine about attempts by government ...

The NYPD has prepared a massive mobilization in Brooklyn to brace for crushing throngs and potentially unruly crowds that will come to mourn the now gravely ill spiritual leader of a Hasidic sect. A ...