represent what most consider to be more historically "typical" Hasidism. The Hungarian Satmar, who are zehemently anti-Zionist, have a reputation as the strictest sect: Satmar women, for example ...

The Hasidim differ from other Orthodox Jews in several ways. The core of Hasidism is enthusiasm and ... in Russia; the Satmar from Satu Mare in present-day Hungary; the Bobover from the Polish ...

She is also a descendent of the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Baal Shem Tov, and an activist and rabbi. We met for bagels because her memoir has recently been adapted into a new play produced by the ...

Netflix’s Unorthodox is one of the biggest shows of 2020 so far, following the story of Esty, a young woman who flees life in an orthodox Jewish ... 25 years as a Satmar Hasidic Jew, before ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum, leader of a faction of the Satmar Hasidic community ... JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining ...

But growing up, she didn’t feel that Judaism had a space for people like her. Abby was raised in an ultra-Orthodox hasidic Jewish community, and as she puts it, “growing up, we had a very ...

These women, also called agunot, bear the label because their husbands refuse to grant them a divorce under Jewish law. Their existence was no secret to the other residents of the Hasidic enclave ...

Hasidic schools’ learning practices and culture, however, have not been studied at all. Education in these schools takes place in Yiddish and can be confusing even to those with familiarity with ...