The funeral of the Satmar grand rebbe went off on Tuesday night like a vast unchoreographed dance on the dark streets of Williamsburg, illuminated only by the yellow glow of streetlights and the red ...

The Brooklyn neighborhood of Boro Park is all but shutting down on Wednesday to mark the death of Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, the last Holocaust-era rebbe to lead a significant Hasidic sect.

Thousands of Gerrer Chassidim on Sunday attended the funeral of Rebbetzin Tzipora Alter, wife of the previous Gerrer Rebbe. Her funeral procession left Bnei Brak from the home of her son Rabbi Yitzhak ...

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Police and ultra-Orthodox Jews during the funeral of Pittsburgh Rebbe Mordechai Leifer in the city of Ashdod on October 5, 2020. (Flash90) A police statement says the force shut down the eulogy part ...