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The Neo-Lubavitcher Rebbe ?

Satmar bus in front of 770- courtesy of shmais.com Chabad deep in Satmar territory Chabad couple is busy 'repackaging' Judaism By Chris McKenna - Times Herald-Record Monroe - They aren't asking people to become Orthodox Jews like themselves. For that matter, they don't like separating members of a common faith into the usual Orthodox, Conservative and Reform camps. Pesach and Chana Burston just want to produce better Jews. The Burstons arrived in Orange County two years ago as emissaries of a Hasidic movement known as Chabad-Lubavitch, based in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. For decades, Chabad has dispatched thousands of young, zealous couples like the Burstons all over the world to nurture Judaism wherever it can be found. Their movement is as outward-looking as the Satmar Hasidim of Kiryas Joel are insular. They want to inspire fellow Jews, whatever they call themselves. While adhering to the strict, literal Judaism of the Hasidim in their own lives, Chabad e...

Listen & see a Bostoner Chasid of the 21st Century - Yitz Jordan The unanswered question is , a chasid of which Rebbe? Bostoner - Boston/Har Nof? Bostoner - Flatbush? Bostoner - Boro Park? Stay tuned. Courtesy of the Partzever Eynikel

Sighet-Satmar Rebbe's Seder - Pesach 2005

A glimpse into a hidden world Montreal's Hasidic communities remain a mystery to most outsiders. Now, a Hasidic mother known as The Lady Who Could Write has broken convention by publishing a slim volume that describes her daily life LISA FITTERMAN Freelance Saturday, May 06, 2006 They are snippets of a mother's life that seems both strange and strangely familiar. A little girl singing a holiday song over and over again - 100,000 times, it seems, until her mother thinks she will explode in frustration. Sitting on a park bench and chatting with other mothers as their children play in the sand. A little girl announcing to her friends that her mommy doesn't really sleep, but simply lies there, all knowing, with her eyes closed. These are the stories of Malka Zipora, the pseudonym of a Hasidic woman who has lived in Outremont for the past 28 years. In a slender volume called Lekhaim! Chroniques de la vie hassidique a Montreal, she opens the curtain on the daily minutiae of a lif...

Tosher Rebbe in Lizhensk