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 ...

Hasidim have aroused controversy both within and without the Jewish community. Hasidim are politically well-organized and sophisticated. They often vote as a strong, and usually very conservative ...

A group of 20 Breslov Hasidim entered the Palestinian village of Kifl Hares in Samaria overnight without any coordination with security forces and without permission from the IDF. The group ...