NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Mourners are remembering two Satmar Jewish leaders who drowned while on vacation at a beach near Miami. Members of the religious community were in shock by the sudden deaths ...

After a career spanning pre-war Hungarian mountain villages and a 21st century empire in New York with an estimated 50,000 Chasidim and several hundred million dollars in assets, the Satmar Grand ...

As the world’s largest chasidic sect mourns the death this week of the Satmar Grand Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum, the bitter, litigious (and sometimes violent) feud between two of his sons shows no sign of ...

Embarrassed by the sex abuse trial of a Hasidic counselor, leaders of Williamsburg’s pious Satmar sect are considering a different way to deal with rebellious teens: shipping them out of the country ...

The anti-Zionist Satmar sect of Hassidic Judaism has offered to pay $100 to every Israeli who won't vote in the elections for the 20th Knesset on March 17, 2015, Walla! News reported. According to ...

(JTA) – As COVID-19 test positivity rates continue to climb in Orthodox communities in New York, a major leader of the Satmar Hasidic sect was put on a ventilator Wednesday morning after becoming ...

The recent change in New York State's Education Law was hotly fought for by haredi-hassidic parents and vehemently opposed by a group who contended that the children in haredi cheder were not being ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Jan. 3, 2019 that New York’s L subway line will not be shut down for 18 months after all. This will come as welcome news to the Satmar Hasidim who live in the ...

New York’s highest court has handed an apparent victory to the younger of two warring brothers in the long-running dynastic dispute over control of the Satmar Hasidic sect. Aaron Teitelbaum, son of ...

Mayer Rispler, center, a leader in the Satmar Hasidic community, at a meeting in 2017. (Twitter via JTA) The leader of a Satmar Hasidic sect who called for Orthodox Jews to follow New York City’s ...

Major Satmar Hasidic leader in US critically ill with COVID-19 Mayer Rispler, a prominent figure in the sect’s Aronim faction, put on a ventilator amid rising infections in NY Orthodox communities ...