At once a community leader and a zaddik, or holy man, the rebbe acts as a ladder between man and God, and is thus the center of a Hasidic community. Hasidim expect their rebbes to provide a wide ...

As their Rebbe lay dying in New York’s Beth Israel Hospital, Hasidim signed petitions to God to permit their Rebbe to rise from his deathbed and lead Jewry to the messianic age. They carried ...

On Friday evening, at the start of Shabbat (Sabbath), the Sanzer Rebbe fainted in the central study hall in Kiryat Sanz, Netanya. The incident occurred during the "Mincha" prayers, when the Rebbe ...

Hasidic musician Mendel Rata, son of the Rebbe of the "Shomrei Emunim" hasidic ... with the help of God." According to Rata, the new brigade marks a fundamental shift in the IDF: "The IDF ...