Long before cantors were household names in America, they were hidden treasures in the Hasidic heartlands of Europe. From its beginnings in the 18th century, the Hasidic movement placed song and ...

A 63-year-old former North Buffalo synagogue that is now home to a church is poised to get a new life, as a Clarence developer seeks to put nine new luxury apartments and retail space into the ...

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Hundreds of holy books were buried this week in Ukraine, after the historic synagogue of the Sadigora Hasidic community was ...

EDISON - The township Zoning Board of Adjustment has approved the expansion of an Orthodox Jewish synagogue along Route 27 where most worshipers walk to services. The application from Congregation ...

Walk down the right street, take the right staircase, and behind an unmarked door you might come across a shtiebel — an informal Jewish prayer room that serves as a gathering place for a small, ...

FILE - Hasidic Jewish students observe as law enforcement establishes a perimeter around a breached wall in the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students, Jan. 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff ...

Fleeing high housing prices in Crown Heights, some adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are moving further east to the formerly Jewish, now predominantly African-American neighborhood. Back in ...

NEW YORK — Four men accused of damaging a Brooklyn synagogue during a melee that followed the discovery of a secret tunnel at the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Hasidic ...