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 ...

Rebbe Mordechai Hager, spiritual leader of the Viznitz Hasidim in Monsey, died today at the age of 95. Hager led a group of about 5,000 Orthodox Jews, but his impact was felt beyond the confines of ...

He was largely unknown in Rockland's secular circles, but Rebbe Mordechai Hager was a giant in the Hasidic community, as evidenced by the tens of thousands who gathered for his funeral in Kaser on ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Rabbi Mordechai Hager, the reserved but strong-willed leader of one of the nation’s largest Hasidic sects, who settled many of his followers in a relatively bucolic upstate enclave to ...

SOUTH BLOOMING GROVE - Workers have been erecting a 14,000-square-foot building on a tree-shrouded cul de sac since July, the centerpiece of a new school complex the Viznitz Hasidic sect has ...