The day after the death of Rabbi Naftuli Halberstam, rebbe of the Bobov chasidim, his half-brother Benzion sat at the Bobover rebbe’s designated place of honor — the raised platform in the middle of ...

It was 1988 presidential primary time in New York, and I was on the press bus going from Manhattan to Boro Park in Brooklyn where Al Gore was scheduled to meet Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the Bobover ...

Thousands of Hassidic Jews attend a special prayer of Grand Rabbi Benzion Halberstam of Bobov at the Western Wall in Jerusaelm Old City, February... It is not often we find a Holocaust memoir where ...

It took Howard Langer two years from his first serious attempt at writing — 60 pages longhand in pencil — to complete what would become “The Last Dekrepitzer.” It took almost two more years for the 74 ...