The head of a Brooklyn-based Chasidic sect was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a decade-long fraud and money-laundering scheme. Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz, Grand Rebbe of the Spinka sect, ...

Thousands of people in Rockland County mourned the death of Orthodox Jewish leader Grand Rebbe Harav Chai Yitzchok Twersky on Wednesday. Twersky was born in Jerusalem and moved to the U.S. when he got ...

Kiryas Joel Word of the grand rebbe's death spread quickly through the tightly knit Satmar community last night, circulating within minutes from Brooklyn to Kiryas Joel to more farflung places like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands gathered Wednesday night to mourn the loss of an Orthodox Jewish leader based in Brooklyn. A funeral took place in upstate Rockland County for Grand Rebbe Chai Yitzchok Twerski who ...

A Rockland County man severely burned in an arson attack on his home last month filed a lawsuit yesterday against the man charged with attacking him – and the village’s grand rebbe. Aron Rottenberg, ...