Samuel Heilman

How a leaderless Chabad movement led to an illegal tunnel brawl

By Yonat Shimron — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — The tunnel’s discovery was just the latest in a 30-year clash among factions of the Hasidic group led by the late Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who died 30 years ago.

Should ultra-Orthodox Jews be able to decide what they’re called?

By Lauren Markoe — February 6, 2014
(RNS) Who would want to be called "ultra" anything? Some Jews known as the "ultra-Orthodox" have come up with a new name, but will it stick?
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