The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

The funeral of the Satmar grand rebbe went off on Tuesday night like a vast unchoreographed dance on the dark streets of Williamsburg, illuminated only by the yellow glow of streetlights and the red ...

Large crowds gathered in Monsey Tuesday to mourn Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, the rebbe of the Skulen Hasidic dynasty in Brooklyn, who died on Monday. He died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore at ...

One of the final remnants of Torah sanctity in eastern Europe to survive World War II and put down roots in the fresh potential of America, the 95-year-old Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of followers attended the funeral of the Vizhnitzer rebbe, Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, in Bnei Brak. The funeral for Hager, the leader of the second-largest Chasidic sect ...

Tens of thousands of Hasidic devotees from around the world converged on New York City this week, to gather at the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, also known as the “Lubavitcher Rebbe.” ...

Thousands of Hasidic women recited psalms and prayed Sunday at the Queens gravesite of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the last Lubavitcher rebbe. The rebbetzin, who died 20 years ago, was ...

More than 10,000 Hasidic Jews marched yesterday in a funeral procession here for Grand Rabbi Jacob Twersky, known as the Skverer Rebbe for the Ukrainian town where he was born, who died earlier in the ...

The true test of emunah does not come without trials and tribulations, but rather in the most dark and difficult times. And no period of Jewish history was as trying as the years of the Holocaust.