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Six people were arrested after anti-Israel protesters clashed with Hasidic Jewish locals outside a prominent Brooklyn synagogue where Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was making a… ...
When I visited the Jewish community of Antwerp 15 years ago, three things stood out for me. First, Haredi Jews traveled everywhere on bicycles — something I had never seen in my hometown of New ...
In Hasidic theology, he said emphatically, the entire world, to its benefit, will one day be ruled by women. He led us into an alley and stopped walking so he could make his points with more ...
Hasidic Jews have condemned Lev Tahor. A delegation of rabbis, led by David Weis, a prominent rabbi from Antwerp (who belongs to the Hasidic Satmar group, which is also anti-Zionist), recently ...
Religious Jews, on the other hand, stayed true to the rabbinic decree of exile that had guided their lives for millennia. Against the winds of emancipation and assimilation that swept through 19th ...
The Hasidic Jewish students who dug a secret tunnel under a Brooklyn synagogue said they’d rather go to prison than face a ban from the historic temple — as they rebuffed plea deals from pros… ...
A Holocaust survivor in Belgium says she knows Jewish people who have packed their bags ready to flee amid a spike in antisemitism. Regina Sluszny, 84, from Antwerp, says incidents have rocketed ...
Even within Satmar, the most conservative Hasidic group, there’s a group of women who have a music band and who perform and who have a studio; they also have a certain (level of) internet access.
Although most of the Jewish community in the capital, Brussels, is secular, the port city of Antwerp has a large ultra-Orthodox population and the largest Hasidic community in Europe.
Although most of the Jewish community in the capital, Brussels, is secular, the port city of Antwerp has a large ultra-Orthodox population and the largest Hasidic community in Europe.
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 file photo, two ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk in Antwerp, Belgium. Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a ...