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- Hasidic News - Explores the Hasidic culture and community and reports the major new developments in communal and religious affairs of the major Hasidic sects Satmar, Bobov, Viznitz, Belz and Toldos Aharon.
- Hasidism by Chabad - Online library including chassidic texts, contemporary chassidic works, short insights and essays.
- Apollo Leisure Guide - Review of the documentary about Hasidic Jews.
- FAQ on Hasidism (Chassidism) - Answers basic questions about Hasidic customs; dress, beliefs, different groups, urban legends, and bloopers in movies and novels.
- Hasidic Stories from Torah - Stories (in Real Audio format) told by Sterna Citron, author of "Why The Baal Shem Tov Laughed".
- Jews and Hasidic Gentiles--United to Save America - Noahide site sponsored by the Hasidic group Chabad Lubavitch.
- New York Times - Hip-Hop Romeo, Hasidic Juliet - Review by Dave Kehr (mixed). [Site requires free registration.]
- Sen. Clinton declines comment on report of sentence commutation probe - [CNN]
- Author finds story in clash between Iowa town and Hasidic Jews - [CNN]
- Martin Buber Homepage - Information about life and work of this philosopher and Hasidic theologian.
Wikipedia Articles
- Neo-Hasidism - Neo-Hasidism is a name frequently given to the significant revival of interest in Hasidic Judaism on the part of non-Orthodox Jews in different decades due to the writings of non-Orthodox teachers of Hasidic Judaism like Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Arthur Green.
- Sighet (Hasidic dynasty) - Sighet (or Sighet Hasidism or Sighter Hasidim) is a movement of Hungarian Haredi Jews who adhere to Hasidism, and who are referred to as Sighter Hasidim. Sighet Hasidism originated in the town of Sighet (now Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania), at that time in the Kingdom of Hungary.
- Satmar (Hasidic dynasty) - Satmar (or Satmar Hasidism or Satmarer Hasidism) (חסידות סאטמאר) is a movement of Haredi Jews who initially adhered to the late Grand Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum (1887-1979), Satmar Rebbe in the town of Szatmárnémeti (now Satu Mare, Romania), at that time in the Kingdom of Hungary. Members of his congregation are mainly referred ...
- Yonassan Gershom - Yonassan Gershom is a Rabbi and a follower of Breslov Hasidism. He was associated with the early days of the B'nai Or movement (in which he was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1986), although he is not in agreement with the direction that organisation has taken in more recent years.
- Nachman Chazan - Nachman Chazan (1813-1884) was a seminal figure in the continuation and growth of Breslov Hasidism in the mid-nineteenth century. The Breslov movement was founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, who died in 1810.