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I am deeply moved and with great pleasure present to you a pre-war song of the Gerer Hasidim, sung as they travelled to the Rebbe for holidays, performed by me.
The Hasidim are reluctant to count themselves: ... 15,000 Lubavitch (though worldwide Lubavitch is the largest court), and another 45,000 in Boro Park, home of the Gerer, ...
THE REGION: Anti-Hasidic sentiment brings calls for understanding. Hasidim want to buy a resort in Fosterdale. Get out, say the neighbors, we don't want you here. "They'll come in and ruin the pl… ...
The Satmars are not the only Hasidim to use modesty patrols. Katz remembers an incident his friends had with the Va’ad Hatznius of the Gerer Hasidim, while studying in Israeli yeshivas during ...
The Satmars are not the only Hasidim to use modesty patrols. Katz remembers an incident his friends had with the Va’ad Hatznius of the Gerer Hasidim, while studying in Israeli yeshivas during ...
The three things the rebbes told their Hasidim to do led to their being blown away. ... [the Belzer, the Satmar, the Gerer] ran off and left all their people to die. Even before the war, ...
Several Gur hasidim have announced that they received the blessing of their rebbe (hasidic leader - ed.) to leave the sect's Haifa community, Behadrei Haredim reported. According to the site ...
Frimet Goldberger writes that, to outsiders, the elusiveness of Hasidim only seems to increase their allure. But she, an ex-Hasid who still maintains ties to her former community, says that with ...