Plans by the Viznitz Hasidic community to form a new village in Sullivan County have been halted by a lawsuit by opponents who hope to disqualify the village petition. Two homeowners whose properties ...
Thousands of followers and supporters escorted the Rabbi Mordechai Hager to his final resting place on Friday. As per Viznitz custom, the funeral did not include eulogies and he was buried in the ...
KIAMESHA LAKE - A synagogue meeting room in the Catskills was packed with congregants and visitors alike on Thursday evening, as a contentious public matter got its first airing in that religious ...
The Viznitz Hasidic community's plans to incorporate an almost 1.5-square-mile village in the Catskills has cleared its first hurdle and may be headed to a referendum. The supervisors of two Sullivan ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Rabbi Mordechai Hager, the grand rabbi and spiritual leader of the Viznitz Hasidim in Kaser-Monsey, died Friday at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He was 95 years old. Hager ...
SOUTH NYACK – Nyack College can officially be sold to a Ramapo-based Hasidic Jewish congregation. A state Supreme Court judge in Manhattan has approved the $45.5 million sale of the 107-acre property ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today with the Rebbe of Viznitz, Rabbi Yisrael Hagar, after an event he held for his followers was shut down by police last night due to it breaching ...