Hasidic dynasty
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chabad was founded in 1775 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya, in the town of Liozna in White Russia. The name…
Topic
History
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Community
Williamsburg (Brooklyn)
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn, New York, beside the Williamsburg Bridge that leads to Manhattan. After…
Community
Borough Park (Brooklyn)
Borough Park is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, and is counted among the largest Jewish neighborhoods in the…
Community
Monsey (New York)
Monsey is a hamlet in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, with a large and growing Charedi community. It is considered…
Music
Jewish (Hasidic) Music in the 2000s
The first decade of the 2000s was a vibrant era for Hasidic and Orthodox music: veteran stars such as Mordechai Ben David and…
Event
9/11 and the Hasidic & Orthodox Community
Hundreds of Jews were killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York. Volunteers of Chevra Hatzalah rushed to…
Event
The shmira vigil for the victims of 9/11
After the attack on the World Trade Center, Orthodox Jews kept a shmira beside the victims' remains at the city's medical…
Customs & life
Rebbe Stories: The Tradition of Tales of the Tzaddikim
For many years, Hasidic stories of the tzaddikim were passed down by word of mouth, at tishen and melaveh malkahs. The first…
History
Hasidic Life in New York, 2000–2007
The years 2000 to 2007 were a time of strong growth for New York's Hasidic communities: Borough Park had the most births in the…
History
"Der Yid": The Newspaper That Grew Up With Hasidic Williamsburg
How Aaron Rosmarin founded Der Yid in 1953 after losing his job at the Morgn-Zhurnal, how Satmar community leaders acquired it,…
History
"The Jews' Highway": How a Bridge Created Jewish Williamsburg
The Williamsburg Bridge (opened 19 Dec 1903) and the Lower East Side Jews who crossed it, then the postwar Hasidic refugees under…
History
Eighteen Minutes: The History and Halachos of Baking Shmura Matzah
What makes matzah "shmura", the 18-minute rule, the ten stations of a hand bakery and the chaburah custom, and the 19th-century…
History
Lag BaOmer in Meron: The Hillula That Draws Hundreds of Thousands
The history and customs of the Hillula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai: first mention in 1322, an 1848 eyewitness account, the Boyaner…
History
From Chazzanus to "Mostly Horas": How the Jewish Music Industry Was Born
Mordechai Ben David's path from cantor's son to "King of Jewish Music": the 1972 Brooklyn College debut, the Ribnitzer Rebbe's…
Singer
Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt
Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt (1882–1933) was one of the greatest chazzanim in Jewish history.
Singer
Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky
Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky (1899–1966) is regarded as one of the greatest cantors of the 20th century.
Street & neighborhood
Mea Shearim
Mea Shearim is one of the oldest Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem outside the Old City, a heart of Jerusalem's Haredi life.
Badchan & comedian
Hershele Ostropoler
Hershele Ostropoler (1757–1811) is the legendary badchan of Ostropol, a hero of Jewish humor.
Badchan & comedian
Eliakum Zunser (Eliakum Badchan)
Eliakum Zunser (1840–1913), known as "Eliakum Badchan", was a badchan, poet and songwriter from Vilna.
History
Simchas Beis Hashoeva: From the Beis Hamikdash to the Chassidish Courts
The Mishna says that whoever has not seen the Simchas Beis Hashoeva has never seen joy. A look at the celebration in the Beis…
History
"We're Going to the Mountains!" – The History of the Catskills
How the Catskills became the summer home of New York's Jews, from the boarding houses and hotels of the Borscht Belt. And how…
Shukipedia
Childhood memories 2000–2007 — part 2
A short from the Childhood Memories series.
Shukipedia
Childhood memories 2000–2007 — part 1 (short)
A short from the Childhood Memories series.
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Childhood memories (2000–2007) — part 1
A trip back to the early 2000s: the toys, games and snacks we grew up with and almost forgot.
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September 11 — documentary (English)
Shukipedia's documentary about September 11, 2001, in English.
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September 11 — documentary (Yiddish)
Shukipedia's documentary about September 11, 2001, in Yiddish.
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Jewish singers of the early 2000s — episode 1
The first episode of a series about Jewish singers of the early 2000s.
פֿאָרווערטס (ייִדיש) — יואל מאַטוועיעוו
How an old Yiddish tale may have influenced Rebbe Nachman ↗
A Yiddish scholar suggests (as his own hypothesis) that the Old Yiddish tale 'Brie ve-Zimre' may be one source behind Rebbe…
פֿאָרווערטס (ייִדיש) — בלאג „עולם החסידות“
The 'living dead Hasidim' — on Breslov ↗
Explains why Breslov Hasidim were nicknamed 'dead Hasidim' — after Rebbe Nachman's passing the movement never appointed another…
װיקיפּעדיע (ייִדיש)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Yiddish Wikipedia) ↗
Yiddish Wikipedia's long article on Williamsburg, from its Dutch colonial beginnings in the 1600s to today's large Hasidic…
װיקיפּעדיע (ייִדיש)
Satu Mare (Satmar), Romania (Yiddish Wikipedia) ↗
Yiddish Wikipedia on the Transylvanian city of Satmar and its rabbis, from Rabbi Yehuda Grunwald up to Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, its…
Institution
Volozhin Yeshiva (Etz Chaim)
The Volozhin Yeshiva, "Etz Chaim", was founded around 1803 by Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, a student of the Vilna Gaon. It flourished…
Place
Vilna (Yerushalayim d'Lita)
Vilna, today the capital of Lithuania, was known as "Yerushalayim d'Lita", a world centre of Torah from the 18th century. The…
History
Belz: The Small Shtetl Behind a Great Chassidus
Belz is a small town in western Ukraine near the Polish border, where the Sar Shalom founded Belzer Chassidus. A look at the…
History
Sanz (Nowy Sącz): The Town of the Divrei Chaim
Nowy Sącz in southern Poland is the Sanz of the Chassidic seforim. Here the Divrei Chaim led his flock, and here is his ohel.…
History
10 Chassidic Courts and Where Their Towns Are Today
Almost every Chassidus carries the name of a European town. A list of ten well-known courts and where their towns are found today.
News
Three New Letters: The Rebbe's Vision for East Flatbush
Three newly published letters reveal the Rebbe's remarkable assessment of East Flatbush 64 years ago, his personal initiative to…