Trapped in a burning Brooklyn home, the granddaughter of a revered Hasidic spiritual leader clutched her 5-month-old daughter yesterday and tried to find a way out. But there was no escape for Sarah ...

THE SATMAR religious community was on the brink of civil war yesterday as two sons of the late Grand Rebbe Moses Teitelbaum staked claim to the spiritual leadership of the sect. The dispute was headed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pilgrims had traveled from Montana and Helsinki, eastern Michigan and western Ukraine, waiting for the sun, hanging stubbornly above the Old Montefiore Cemetery in New York City, to disappear. For ...

Thousands of Gerrer Chassidim on Sunday attended the funeral of Rebbetzin Tzipora Alter, wife of the previous Gerrer Rebbe. Her funeral procession left Bnei Brak from the home of her son Rabbi Yitzhak ...

Yesterday and today, tens of thousands of Lubavitcher Jews are paying their respects at the Cambria Heights resting place of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Schneerson died 20 ...

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 the Satmar Hasidic ...

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