The Hasidim are first of all Orthodox Jews. They believe that the Torah, the five books of Moses, is the literal word of God, and that carrying out this word is what gives meaning and purpose to life.

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 ...

Vishnitzer Hasidim, with origins in the borderlands, observe Nittel Nacht both on Dec. 24 and Jan. 6. In New Square, where Skverer Hasidim observe the 12-hour “grosser Nittel” (“big Nittel ...

One reason that Burko decided to teach the course is that Hasidim whose ancestors actually came from Skver and Breslov, no ...

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In fact, a community such as Kiryas Joel could not have taken rise in Europe, where the Satmar Hasidim came from. America’s dual commitments to religious freedom and private property allowed ...