Thousands of volunteers from the Hasidic community had assembled to comb the streets. Aron is Orthodox, but not Hasidic. The Hasidim are ultra-Orthodox Jews. Article content Seth Wenig/AP Article content Read More Their brother was murdered . Then their parents died. Now these fi...
The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden. Where are Ashkenazi Jews from? One of two major ancestral groups of Jewish individuals, comprised of those whose anc...
Seligson said witnesses reported the suspect repeatedly saying, "Kill the Jews." But Brooklyn Chief of Detectives PatConrysaid Peters may have said something along the lines of, "I will kill all of you." Bratton said police are investigating the alleged remarks. "That's ...
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Rabbis Mendel "The Prodfather" Epstein, of Lakewood, and Binyamin Stimler, of Brooklyn, were sentenced in 2015 to years in prison for kidnapping and torturing Jewish husbands until they granted their wives' divorces. The gang lured at least two Hasidic Jews from New York to Lakewood where the...
His family’s name adorns a school in Chicago associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch group of Hasidic Jews, whose leader at the time was involved in the creation of the Aleph Institute in the early 1980s. His father is a rabbi in Florida. His family has also don...